What’s Next for Gaza and Israel? (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, Daniel Bessner)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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4.7 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
0:31 Another high-synergy collaborative episode 1:42 Do mainstream Israelis support ethnic cleansing? 10:56 Biden’s electoral (mis?)calculations on Israel-Palestine 21:14 What does a left-wing foreign policy vision look like today?
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True), Derek Davison (Foreign Exchanges, American Prestige, Discontents), and Daniel Bessner (American Prestige, University of Washington). Recorded Feb 01, 2024.
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Overtime titles:
0:00 Terminator, Terminator 2, and the JFK assassination 10:46 The shocking scale of Gaza’s physical destruction 17:00 The two biggest fault lines in the Middle East 27:12 Foreign policy restrainers on the right and left 31:53 Why the “Iran-backed militias” phrase is so hypocritical 34:53 The meaning of the ICJ genocide ruling 41:14 Will Netanyahu’s political calculus lead to a wider war?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast. |
| 0:33.1 | Oh, look, it's Derek Davidson and Danny Besner, the American Prestige podcast, and I'm Robert Wright in Non Zero podcast. |
| 0:40.6 | So this must mean that it's another high-snergy episode of the collaborative American Prestige Non-Zero podcast, which happens every couple of months or so, notwithstanding. |
| 0:51.9 | These really should be national holidays. |
| 0:54.3 | They should. They should. |
| 0:55.5 | They should. |
| 0:56.5 | People should consider them. |
| 0:58.2 | You've given the time to consider them. |
| 1:00.3 | There's talk on Capitol Hill about that, but I don't want to say anything too soon. |
| 1:05.8 | I mean, fair enough. |
| 1:09.0 | So we've only done three of these, and they're only every two months. |
| 1:12.9 | And yet, the very first one involved discussion of Gaza. |
| 1:16.8 | And that means, I guess, that this war is heading into its fifth month right about now, right? |
| 1:22.1 | Yeah, wild. |
| 1:23.1 | Yeah, terrible. |
| 1:25.6 | Whoa. |
| 1:27.1 | Yeah, well. So I guess the levity portion of our podcast is ended. It's starting to see. |
| 1:32.3 | Well, Bob, I actually have a question. Was that premature? Should we go ahead. No, let's return to |
| 1:35.9 | levity. Go ahead. Let's have a little more banter. No, this is not levity. This is related to that |
| 1:41.3 | because you've done much more than most people have have like |
| 1:45.3 | talked to people from quote unquote both sides so i was just wondering like what is your assessment |
| 1:49.1 | of both both sides as arguments you know you've talked to israeli liberals you've talked to |
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