Terrorism, Israel, and Dreams of Peace (with Haviv Rettig Gur)

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🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Over the last 30 years, the Israeli public has moved to the right on the question of how to deal with the Palestinians. Why did this happen? How has this changed Israeli politics and the strategy of the Palestinians? Listen, as journalist Haviv Rettig Gur explores the political and military history of the last three decades in Israel with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. The conversation ends with lessons for the future and a discussion of the differences between American and Israeli Jews.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.9	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Sholem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:36.6	Today is November 7th, 2024, and my guest is journalist Javi, Redeggur, senior analyst for the Times of Israel.
0:45.5	Kavid was here in December of 2023 to discuss the birth of Israel in the Arab-Israeli conflict,
0:51.4	an episode that was your favorite episode of last year.
0:54.8	Have you, welcome back to Econ Talk.
0:57.3	Thank you.
0:57.9	Thanks for us.
0:58.3	It's wonderful to be here.
0:59.5	We are recording this episode in a very dramatic time, all times these days feel
1:05.0	dramatic in Israel, but we are two days after the U.S. election of 2024 won by Donald
1:10.3	Trump.
1:12.8	Two days after Bibi Netanyahu, the 2024 won by Donald Trump, two days after B.B. Netanyahu,
1:18.5	the prime minister of Israel, fired his minister of defense, Yoav Ghalant. And last month,
1:23.4	we observed the one-year anniversary of the attacks of October 7th and the war that followed.
1:31.4	So there's a lot going on. At the end of this conversation, I hope we'll have some time to talk about what might come next. But our topic for today is to talk about Israeli sentiment toward the Palestinians in this moment and how we got here.
1:40.6	So start us off.
1:44.0	Yeah, I mean, it really isn't, it feels like an inflection point. So, start us off.
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