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Q&A on the ABCs of Israel/Palestine

Q&A on the ABCs of Israel/Palestine

Update: 2024-04-30
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This is a Q&A where I respond to questions and critiques about episode 12: The ABC’s of Israel/Palestine (https://youtu.be/OLr_VCqnId0) and also go off on a whole bunch of related tangents.


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0:00 intro


1:55 Rashid Khalidi on the Comedy Cellar Podcast


5:33 Why I Became a Lawyer


11:36 Israel’s assaulton Gaza is pointless


13:28 Hamas’ 2020 conference on what to do after victory


14:31 Oct 7 happened because the IDF was AWOL


15:56 israeli vs palestinian propaganda


18:12 Israelis unconsciously aware that the war is just for revenge


20:26 Mowing the lawn and keeping Gazans on a diet


22:12 Why I don’t cover current events

24:54 How hard it is to figure out what’s true with Israeli/Palestine history:

27:32 Did Zionists do terror against Jews in Baghdad to convince Jews to emigrate?

28:34 Did Israel steal Yemeni Jewish babies to give to holocaust survivors?


33:50 What I’m bringing to the table 


36:15 Israeli views on Arab civilian casualties, 2002 vs 2024


43:09 Hamas isn’t nationalist

43:29 Hamas vs Fatah members’ teeth

44:01 Hamas did not “win by a landslide”


46:40 the Hannibal directive


51:52 victories for activism: forcing Israel to let more aid into gaza


55:22 BEGIN Q&A


55:56 left and right / the social psychology of voting


57:20 critique: i “both sidesed” the conflict

57:53 cancer eviction story

59:35 could we make a little interpersonal violence legal?

1:01:08 why present both sides?


1:09:58 cancel culture in pro-Israel politics

1:18:12 academia’s role in neutralizing activism

1:20:33 “you don’t understand the nuances” David Graeber critiques

1:22:47 pomo as poetry, not scholarship

1:27:20 back to cancel culture

1:28:48 Gina Carano


1:32:46 Cancel culture in palestinian activism:

972+ Project Lavender article

1:35:18 cancelling Norman Finkelstein


1:37:44 back to Q and A


1:38:23 why is the US so involved in the Israel/Palestine conflict?


1:46:26 why don’t i call it genocide?


2:13:58 The culpability of the original zionist settlers vs holocaust refugees and jews from the arab world


2:19:48 Atlantic article disputing that Israeli leaders made genocidal statements


2:33:29 Do Arabs in Israel really have equal rights?


2:43:51 75 years of occupation since 1967?  Whose land is it?


2:48:39 college “leftist” activists supporting hamas uncritically


3:01:57 “we must support a liberation movement, no matter how reactionary it gets”?


3:04:26 Are American settler colonialists guilty 250 years later?


3:12:07 From authoritarian child rearing to children raising their parents: why do we always do everything idiotically?


3:17:45 One state, two states, no states


3:21:05 Should Israelis have to leave?


3:27:08 Reading Hamas’ 2024 “Our Narrative” pamphlet


3:41:59 outtro


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Q&A on the ABCs of Israel/Palestine

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