The Critical State of Israel (Robert Wright & Daniel Levy)

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🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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0:00 Israel’s many issues 2:52 How ugly could Israel’s judicial reform crisis get? 11:11 Are Palestinian citizens of Israel really under “apartheid”? 18:10 The demographic and ideological sources of Israel’s instability 32:44 If the two-state solution is dead, now what? 43:40 How might an increasingly multipolar world affect Israel? 59:22 Why climate change makes Israel-Palestine even more dire

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Daniel Levy (Prospects for Peace, NAF, The Century Foundation). Recorded May 01, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:32.9	Hi, Daniel.
0:35.8	Hi, Bob.
0:37.1	How you doing?
0:38.6	I'm very well.
0:40.4	Glad to hear that.
0:41.4	Let me introduce us.
0:42.9	I'm Robert Wright, publisher with Non-Zero Newsletter.
0:45.5	This is a Non-Zero podcast.
0:47.5	You are Daniel Levy, and for one thing, you're a longtime friend of mine.
0:53.3	But you're also president of the U.S.
0:56.1	Middle East Project, which we'll talk about.
1:00.3	And in that capacity, I guess, you not so long ago testified before the UN Security Council.
1:05.2	People can Google that if the following conversation doesn't satisfy them.
1:10.7	Now, you are a longstanding student of his. if the following conversation doesn't satisfy them.
1:19.8	Now, you are a longstanding student of Israeli politics, Israeli geopolitics, and in particular of Israel-Palestine issues.
1:22.7	In fact, I think you were a couple decades ago involved in negotiations.
1:27.2	Israel-Palestine negotiations, Am I misremembering or...
1:30.3	No, no, you're correctly remembering. It stretches a bit further back than that. I was actually a negotiator under Robin in the so-called Oslo II, Oslo B Accords in the mid-90s and then at the very beginning of
1:46.3	the noughties at the end of 2001 under then Prime Minister Barak. This time as a political
1:55.4	appointment, I was on the negotiating team at Taba in the Israeli-Palestinian peace talk.
2:01.8	Okay, I definitely want to talk about that before we're done.
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