Yossi Klein Halevi on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

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🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In 2018, author Yossi Klein Halevi wanted Palestinians to understand his story of how Israel came into existence. At the same time, he wanted Palestinians to tell him their personal and national stories, too, about the same land. The result was Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, a candid, heartfelt book that engaged Jews and Arabs around the world in conversation. Listen as Klein Halevi talks about his book and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. Halevi explains why he believes that dialogue is possible, even when there are things about which the two sides will never agree. Finally, he speaks about where he sees Israel headed in the wake of Hamas's brutal October 7th attack.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to Econ Talk. in to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done
0:24.5	going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econ talk.org we'd love to hear from you. Today is November 13th, 2023, and before introducing today's guest, I want to share a few
0:42.4	personal thoughts and give
0:44.2	listeners a heads up.
0:45.9	Some of this introduction will draw on a recent thread I did on X, the place formerly known
0:50.5	as Twitter. As I think you all know, I have been living in Jerusalem
0:55.1	here in Israel since June of 2021,
0:58.5	President of Shalem College, since Israel was attacked
1:01.6	on October 7th.
1:03.0	I've managed to keep up the weekly release schedule for Econ Talk.
1:07.0	I'm not sure that will continue to be the case,
1:09.0	but I want you to know that's my intention.
1:11.0	I am busy but not overwhelmed and I've been able to keep up with scheduling new
1:16.2	episodes of doing the reading to prepare but I find myself increasingly
1:20.9	preoccupied both with the war, the neighborhood I live in, the Middle East, and
1:27.0	the rise in anti-Semitism around the world.
1:30.7	Many topics I once found interesting.
1:32.6	I don't find so interesting in this moment.
1:34.7	A book will arrive across my digital desk.
1:37.4	I simply can't imagine finding the interest to read it.
1:40.0	Even though a month ago such a book would have been a natural topic for conversation or five weeks
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