The following podcast contains advertising.

To access an ad-free version of the LawFair podcast, become a material supporter of LawFair

at patreon.com slash lawfair.

That's patreon.com slash lawfair.

Also, check out LawFair's other podcast offerings, rational security, chatter, lawfair

no bull and the aftermath.

They look, for example, at the United States, but especially at the left wing in Israel.

And think that the left wing and the Americans have a naive approach to problems in the

world.

And that naive approach, a solutionist approach, believes that every problem has a solution

if you just try hard enough.

And in a sense, it's an extreme pragmatic can-do approach, which is great in the United

States and built this country and did a lot of other great things.

But they would say, and I think there's some value in this point of view, is not true

and fundamentally, when you look at the world, there are many things that don't have a neat

solution, at least not in the foreseeable future.

In a sense, in a Ftali Bennett, I quote him in the article, I likened it to a chronic

medical condition that a friend of his had.

You need to learn to live with chronic conditions and if you force the issue and try to solve

them, you're in fact risking catastrophe.

And so by analogy, they believe there is no solution in the foreseeable future to the

Israeli Palestinian problem.

...