Where Is the Israel-Hamas War Heading? (Robert Wright & Joshua Landis)

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🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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2:23 What Iran hopes to gain from the Israel-Hamas war 9:29 Did Hamas expect such a massive retaliation from Israel? 16:54 Why Israel’s campaign in Gaza could backfire 22:24 What Hezbollah is and how it got started 33:52 Does Israel have an exit strategy in Gaza? 46:53 Why the Arab world might unite in the years ahead 56:32 How China could benefit from the current crisis 1:02:52 Why the US hasn’t pushed harder to resolve Israel-Palestine 1:09:44 Is a one-state solution the best path forward? 1:18:11 Can the Israeli government rein in West Bank settlers? 1:25:34 How Israel-Palestine damages America’s, and Biden’s, credibility

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Joshua Landis (University of Oklahoma, SyriaComment.com). Recorded November 02, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.4	Hi, Josh.
0:35.2	Hey, Bob.
0:36.4	How you doing?
0:37.4	I'm doing very well.
0:38.3	And you?
0:39.3	I guess I won't complain.
0:42.7	The world is not in a great situation right now.
0:46.1	That's what we're going to talk about.
0:47.3	Let me introduce us.
0:48.0	I'm Robert Wright, published your non-zero newsletter.
0:50.6	This is the non-zero podcast.
0:52.5	You're Joshua Landis, a professor at the University of Oklahoma,
0:57.9	director of among other things, the Center of Middle East Studies.
1:05.0	You are, and you explain where exactly you are at the university.
1:09.9	You're not the college. The College of International Studies, the born College of International Studies, which brings together different disciplines.
1:17.6	I'm a historian by trade, but I teach modern politics and history of the Middle East.
1:22.6	Okay.
1:23.6	And you've written a lot about the contemporary Middle East, and that's what I want to talk about.
1:29.9	It is, of course, in turmoil.
1:39.0	And one thing I wanted to look at is kind of ways the Israel-Hamas war could unfold,
1:44.3	including the possibility that some fear of regional conflagration.
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