Yossi Klein Halevi

The Atlantic Interview

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Society & Culture, Politics, News

4.4 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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“I discovered the reality and the power of Palestinian identity by getting a rock thrown at my head.” Israel author Yossi Klein Halevi joins The Atlantic's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg to discuss the conflict in the Middle East and his new book Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor. Halevi shares how he believes Israelis need to both remember that they live in a world where genocide is possible and to remember that they were strangers in the land of Egypt. “And if you don’t have both of those sensibilities, then you are a one-dimensional Jew,” says Halevi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Atlantic interview. I'm Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, and this week we have Israeli author and journalist Yossi Klein-Halevi who joined me in the Atlantic's DC
0:15.6	headquarters.
0:17.1	Yossie has a new book coming out called Letters to my Palestinian Neighbour.
0:21.2	It's really quite a moving and interesting book. It's one of the best one volume
0:25.4	introductions to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. We discuss
0:30.3	everything in this conversation, the two-state solution or non-solution the
0:34.0	Iran deal or non-deal and we roam freely around the Middle East.
0:38.1	Yossi is a guy I've known for many many years. He's one of the most interesting
0:40.8	voices in the Middle East.
0:43.2	One note, Yossi and I spoke a couple of weeks ago
0:46.6	before the situation on the Gaza-Israel border heated up.
0:50.2	And before the Iran situation heated up everything's very very hot right now
0:55.1	which is another reason to listen to this conversation but just wanted to note
0:58.0	all of that and before we go to the interview I just want to make a quick
1:01.4	announcement the Atlantic interview is taking a short break after this episode.
1:05.2	We're working on some new podcasts here and we'll have more to share on that front soon, but this will be the last
1:10.2	episode in this feed for a bit to be notified for when we're back just
1:14.6	stay subscribed. Now with all of that business out of the way here's Yossi Kline-Hellevi. Yoce Klein-Klein, Howlevy, thanks very much for being here on the Atlantic interview.
1:28.4	Great to be with you, Jeff.
1:30.0	Nice to see you in the diaspora.
1:32.1	Have you been, have you been here before? In the diaspora? Yeah. I was born and raised. Good. Yeah. No, I so just in the interest of all. I left my heart in Brooklyn. I think it's your liver. I left my liver in Brooklyn.
1:46.0	Just so in the interest of full disclosure, I've known Yossi for a long time.
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