Who is Hamas?
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🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for politically eclectics. I'm Ravi Gupta, and this is another |
| 0:05.7 | installment of our sort of history series and background series on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
| 0:12.3 | And we'd be getting tons and tons of questions from you as listeners. And my aim is over time, |
| 0:17.6 | over the course of the next weeks, to get through as many of those questions as possible. |
| 0:21.7 | Today we're going to tackle one huge question that we got a lot of input from the audience on, |
| 0:27.4 | which is, you know, why do you want her to know who is Hamas? What is Hamas? How did they get |
| 0:32.0 | started? What are their aims? Who are their leaders? How have they changed over time? |
| 0:37.2 | And so I'm going to attempt in |
| 0:38.3 | this episode to answer that question with the same disclaimer I always give, which is I'm trying |
| 0:43.1 | to be as even-handed and objective as possible. Obviously, we're talking about an organization, |
| 0:48.3 | though, that carried out like a pretty atrocious atrocity a month ago. And so in giving this history, I want to make sure that even though I'm going to be a bit |
| 0:59.8 | tedious, I'm going to be didactic at times. |
| 1:03.0 | I don't want to lose the emotion of the moment either. |
| 1:05.8 | And in kind of breaking this apart as methodically as I can, I don't want to lose sight of the sort of |
| 1:13.3 | moral content of what's going on here. And so I want to just say that at the outset people, |
| 1:19.9 | long-time listeners or at least been listening to the past few episodes, know how I feel at the |
| 1:24.1 | big picture level. But what I want to do is give you a thorough picture as possible about who this organization is |
| 1:29.5 | because there are just a lot of claims going on about who they are and what they represent. |
| 1:35.8 | One other disclaimer here is that the information on Hamas is very spotty, very suspect. |
| 1:43.3 | It's just disjointed. And, you know, I said this about the conflict |
| 1:47.7 | writ large that there's just not a lot of objective sources. As it relates to Hamas, |
| 1:54.5 | that's particularly true. There just aren't a lot of deep resources on Amas. I wish I still worked at the State Department because they would have |
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