The Middle East Conflict though a Religious Lens
Faith Adjacent
The Popcast Media Group
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🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re doing something a little different, as unprecedented times call for unprecedented podcasts. This episode is in response to the many listeners who have asked for help in better understanding the history and context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Join Resident Bible Scholar Erin Moon as she explores listener questions and deep-dives the history of the region through a religious lens to provide context for what you’re hearing on the news and seeing in your feeds.
We understand that we bring a bias to this conversation, so we enlisted the help of several sensitivity listeners of various backgrounds to educate and enlighten about our own blindspots and biases. We’re so thankful for their help in shaping this episode. Be sure to check out the resources below to further your own research.
MENTIONS
- How to help: Check out World Central Kitchen
- Relevant Past Episodes: SWDGISS: The Temples | Season 9, Episode 4: Constantine | SWDGISS: Paul’s Letters with NT Wright | SWDGISS: How We Read the Bible
- Helpful Podcast Episodes: The Balfour Declaration, Explained | The British White Paper on Palestine, Explained | Evangelicals Who Support Israel in Relation to End Times Prophecies | Why Evangelicals Support Israel | Gaza Population and Size Comparisons
- British Muslim Leaders Condemn Hamas Attack | Islamic Fatwa Against Hamas
- Organizations working towards peace and mutual understanding in the Middle East: Churches for Middle East Peace | The Telos Group | Telos Principles & Practices of Peacemaking
- Helpful Modern Perspectives and Educators: Ezra Klein: Israel is Giving Hamas What It Wants | The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan | Deep Dive into Idealogical and Religious Extremism of Hamas | YouTube Playlist by Seminarian and Jerusalemite Melissa | Mo News | Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg | Undaunted: Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin: Unlikely Brothers
- Demographics, Statistics, and Information: 7 Key Findings About Religion and Politics in Israel | Modest Warming in US Views on Israel and Palestinians | Younger evangelicals walking away from Israeli support | Understanding the importance of teaching about the Holocaust | The American role in the Holocaust | Quick facts about Al Nakba
- Historical Perspectives: Reasons for Arab Rejection of Zionism | Wiser World Podcast - Palestinian-Israeli Conflict 101 | A Timeline of Israel and Palestine’s Complicated History | The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Origins Course (Free) | Israeli Views of the Land of Israel/Palestine
- Religious Sites: What makes Temple Mount so special? | The Temple Mount, Explained | The Politics of Prayer at Temple Mount
- Learn more about Palestinian Christians: Gaza’s Palestinian Christians
- The Hamas Attack in Israel: Why did Hamas invade Israel? | Understanding Hamas’s Genocidal Ideology | Origins of Hamas
- Is it a racial slur to describe someone as a Jew? Read this article
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a very special episode of Faith adjacent. I'm your host and resident |
| 0:17.4 | Bible scholar Aaron Moon. Today we're doing something a little bit different as unprecedented |
| 0:22.6 | times call for unprecedented podcast. Throughout the last couple of weeks we've had several |
| 0:29.1 | listeners reach out and ask for some help understanding the history and religious context |
| 0:35.1 | of the Palestinian Israeli conflict that rose to a fever pitch on October 7th of this |
| 0:41.2 | year with the terrorist invasion of Hamas into Israel. We wanted to make this explainer, |
| 0:47.7 | this primer for our audience in the hopes that it could provide background for comprehending |
| 0:53.6 | some of the current events through a religious lens. But before we dive in I wanted to offer a |
| 1:00.1 | little disclaimer. Obviously I, Aaron Moon, bring a certain bias to this conversation. I'm a white |
| 1:07.7 | woman with a middle class American evangelical upbringing and because of that upbringing a lot of |
| 1:14.2 | my youth was spent hearing about how America is pro-Israel all the time no matter what. As an adult who |
| 1:21.7 | has been deconstructing a lot of my evangelical education I've worked to untangle some of that |
| 1:28.2 | and separate the people of God from the governments that lead them. Now the group that I identify with |
| 1:34.6 | Christians particularly the white American brand have really not brought a ton to the table in |
| 1:40.2 | this discussion except for white supremacy and more damage. So I recognize that my opinions here |
| 1:47.6 | do not hold much water and the purpose of this episode is not really to share that opinion with you. |
| 1:54.0 | But it is more hopefully to give context for what you're hearing about on the news and seeing |
| 1:59.9 | in your feeds. But I share this with you because it might help to know where I'm coming from and what |
| 2:05.7 | I'm learning so that you understand the lens through which I am processing all this and you can |
| 2:10.1 | apply that information to what I'm sharing. But I say all of this to offer context. I am not |
| 2:17.5 | a PhD scholar in Middle Eastern relations. I will absolutely get some of this wrong. But I want to |
| 2:25.6 | thank our sensitivity listeners of both Jewish and Palestinian backgrounds who helped us craft |
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