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The Eternal Hatred of the Jews - From Beirut to the West (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_639)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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Society & Culture, Science, Education

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🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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I delivered this talk at the Steamboat Institute's Summit on Foreign Policy and Global Security on January 20, 2024. The original link to the talk can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1e8GI9npLU&t=981s _______________________________________ My book The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life is now available for order: https://www.amazon.com/Saad-Truth-about-Happiness-Secrets/dp/1684512603 _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad To subscribe to my exclusive content on Twitter, please visit my bio at https://twitter.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted earlier today (January 26, 2024) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1650: https://youtu.be/_O8D_mdTRH4 _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense.  _______________________________________

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0:00.0

So today I'd like to talk about a rather dark topic.

0:04.8

I wish it were happiness that we were talking about.

0:08.9

But Jew hatred is something that is now

0:12.2

on the minds of many people, but for someone like me who comes from

0:14.9

Lebanon it's something that I grew up with regrettably as a child in Lebanon.

0:19.7

So the title of my talk is The Eternal Hatred of Jews from Beirut to the West.

0:24.4

And so first I'd like to give you a bit of a quick synopsis of what it was like growing

0:30.4

up Jewish in Lebanon and what you might expect to happen in the West if we don't

0:37.0

get our acts straight.

0:38.3

So this is my childhood in Lebanon.

0:40.4

The left photo is what used to be called the Paris of the Middle East and the

0:47.9

one the other one is exactly how I lived my life the last year of the Lebanese Civil War. As a matter of fact, when the need to play is so important that even in a civil war, people wish to play.

1:02.0

And so my parents would tell me if you're going to go outside

1:05.0

and play don't pass this particular line because then that puts you to the

1:09.1

eyesight of the snipers who would blow your brains.

1:12.6

And so it becomes a cavalier reality.

1:14.8

Death is awaiting you at every corner.

1:17.3

Fortunately, we escaped Lebanon

1:19.4

after the first year of the Civil War,

1:21.6

but I want to give you a bit of a feel of what it was like growing up in

1:25.8

progressive tolerant Lebanon. Lebanon was a lot more modern than many of the other

1:31.6

Middle Eastern countries.

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