The Atlantic Interview: Yossi Klein Halevi

The Atlantic Interview

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Society & Culture, Politics, News

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🗓️ 2 May 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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“I discovered the reality and the power of Palestinian identity by getting a rock thrown at my head.” Israel author Yossi Klein Halevi joins The Atlantic's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg to discuss the conflict in the Middle East and his new book Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor. Halevi shares how he believes Israelis need to both remember that they live in a world where genocide is possible and to remember that they were strangers in the land of Egypt. “And if you don’t have both of those sensibilities, then you are a one-dimensional Jew,” says Halevi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.2	Welcome to The Atlantic interview. I'm Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, and this
0:40.1	week we have Israeli author and journalist Yossi Klein-Halevi, who joined me in the Atlantic's D.C.
0:45.8	Headquarters. Yossi has a new book coming out called Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.
0:51.0	It's really quite a moving and interesting book. It's one of the best one-volume
0:55.4	introductions to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. We discuss everything in this
1:01.1	conversation, the two-state solution or non-solution, the Iran deal or non-deal. And we roam freely
1:07.4	around the Middle East. Yossi is a guy I've known for many, many years. He's one of the most
1:10.5	interesting voices in the Middle East. Yossi is a guy I've known for many, many years. He's one of the most interesting voices in the Middle East. One note, Yossi and I spoke a couple of weeks ago before the
1:17.7	situation on the Gaza-Israel border heated up and before the Iran situation heated up. Everything's
1:24.2	very, very hot right now, which is another reason to listen to this conversation, but just wanted to note all of that. And before we go to the interview, I just
1:30.9	want to make a quick announcement. The Atlantic interview is taking a short break after this episode.
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1:45.9	Now with all of that business out of the way, here's Yossi Klein-Halevi.
1:55.0	Yose-Kleve, thanks very much for being here on the Atlantic interview.
1:58.6	Great to be with you, Jeff.
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