Israel vs. Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran - and Itself

[@samuraijack1371]

It would be great to have someone from Palestinian side. There is heavy Jewish representation in US media. If you really want have a deep, informed perspective having a Palestinian representation is a must

[@Shrulik]

Muslims impose the narrative but obviously it isn't enough for people that believe that Jews pulls the strings

[@1000свольдер]

Modern Palestinians do not know their history - you should invite Mr.Arafat, Hitler or the Kremlin Frankensteins who invented this legend about ancient Khanaanite heroes

[@YepSmoke]

Like Mosab Hassan Yousef. Great Palestinian perspective. :)

[@rosemarygaia4360]

@@1000свольдер maybe they can read how many times the UN has asked for a peaceful settlement which Israel voted against. Maybe they might ask where are the rape victims ......the women who could come forward and say they were raped by Hamas or the forensic evidence

[@rayrayschnapps8217]

never going to happen. I read an article in NYT about Hamas 'brutal tactics' and the sources were 1 palestinian guy that does not like Hamas and 'U.S. intelligence officials'. I did a lookup once and only mention of Human Rights Watch was when they were critical of Hamas. I'm beginning to think NYT doesn't like Hamas.

[@HoyaDon]

Ezra, please bring a Palestinian on to talk about the current state of affairs. Please 🙏🏿

[@sandramarasalomao1324]

É ……

[@JulieB-k3h]

No. We've heard enough out of Palestians. The endless proven lies.

[@HeilPutler-ze9tz]

Jews can't be trusted with Israel

[@AbuSous2000PR]

are u referring to those who don't exist 😊...good luck....

[@teddmented]

They just lie there’s no point

[@Killane10]

I am Irish and really disgusted with what is going on and feel a great sorrow for the ordinary people of Gasa, Lebanon and Israel. I have become very suspicious of mainstream media and what is mostly biased reporting. This conversation gave me additional perspectives that felt genuine ❤

[@machsimillian14]

Nothing on ezra's podcast regarding this topic is genuine.

[@edan513]

Brother, you are comments on mainstream media right now.

[@wolfsheepclothing]

This is a sham like the rest of the NEW York (CRIMES) reporting on Palestine & Palestinians! This DAVID REMNICK is the male Version of HILLARY CLINTON. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HEARD OF A PALESTINIAN ATTACK? it’s the other way around’. Don’t listen or read fake news! Turn to independent journalism. Max Blumenthal. Democracy now, Breaking points, electronic intifada, etc. Israel killed 178 Journalists in less than 11 mos period! More than the 20 yrs Vietnam war!

[@wolfsheepclothing]

This is a sham like the rest of the NEW York (CRIMES) reporting on Palestine & Palestinians! This DAVID REMNICK is the male Version of HILLARY CLINTON. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HEARD OF A PALESTINIAN ATTACK? it’s the other way around’. Don’t listen or read fake news! Turn to independent journalism. Max Blumenthal. Democracy now, Breaking points, electronic intifada, etc. Israel killed 178 Journalists in less than 11 mos period! More than the 20 yrs Vietnam war!

[@amedroolivier678]

Kisses to you and all Irish people from an anti-colonialist french little guy (yes there is such a thing!).

[@monicaguyomard5402]

Interesting podcast. I would have liked to listen more about the way Palestiniens feel and understand the history of this conflict since the creation of the state of Israel.

[@lupen_rein]

Ezra Klein has made a number of podcast shows on that, just listen to his earlier shows since October 7

[@sandramarasalomao1324]

Os palestinos foram os menos consultados desde o começo da resolução de l’ONU ..! Ninguém quer saber e se incomodar com eles ..! O que rola o tempo todo é só lobby e interesses de nações..imperialistas ..! Vamos falar a verdade ! E US também ..não está nem aí com Israel .. Mas enquanto US tem a ganhar em .. Middle East eles jogam o jogo é lógico !!

[@raincadeify]

@@lupen_rein I will, thank you, but I won't go into that high hopes. I see a difference in those who try to straddle the fence between loyalty to a fascist state while seeming to feel sad about mass starvation and murder of civilians. This problem won't be fixed once Netanyahu is replaced, this genocidal action that Israel is engaged in is seen by many Jews as an existential necessity. That is madness defined.

[@rosarose3443]

​@@raincadeifyWatch Corey Gil Shuster interviews with Palestinians and Israelis. Then you will know what both think.

[@JorgeRzezak]

@@raincadeify Netaniahu was chosen democratically, and as you well said, any other democratically elected would do almost the same because there is no other way in a war to destruct your enemy as was done by the US, UK and other countries and you are in complete silence which is to be complicit on your side. About genocide, where is it? If Israel would do a genocide why does not do it? The Palestinian population in Gaza is still the same. the casualties are mostly terrorists and less than 1% of its population.

[@trytwicelikemice3190]

A request for interviews like this... could you date the interview in the info section? It would save us trying to work out when its recorded in the context on ongoing events (in this case the escalation with Hezbollah)

[@natasharay4045]

Outstanding! A deep and nuanced dive into a complicated subject. I could have listened to another hour. Thank you, Ezra Klein & David Remnick!

[@arimas1977]

Complicated? Please ...

[@articexplorer]

Not complicated at all. One ethnic group migrated and formed a state and for about 70 years they have been trying to steal more and more land.

[@xx133]

It’s not complicated. Is… and the west want the ME they want the land in Gaza and the West Bank, and beyond, but don’t want the people on it. They squeeze said people until they retaliate then call them sav… This is the formula the west has used across the globe.

[@xx133]

They want the land, and not the indigenous people on the land. They want regional hegemony over all of the resources, cheap labor, etc across the ME. Modus operandi of western col… it’s why Is… was founded-no different than Massachusetts Bay in the 1700s. Netanyahu even as far as to quote the speech the governor from Massachusetts Bay gave prior to his geno of the Wampanoags.

[@TrollingNormies]

@@xx133they want to steal what’s left of the land and resources but those pesky indigenous civilians won’t leave.

[@Knardsh]

Easy to forget in all the noise of the internet that this level of nuance and balance is, at the least, a small majority in the west. Otherwise the establishment/s wouldn’t have the positions they do. One small sliver of hope.

[@sah6373]

New Yorker can’t even find one Palestinian to talk for Palestine, and Palestinians? Shocking!

[@Owenalpe]

A Palestinian who will actually agree to talk about hamas?

[@Abcnz1989]

Hard to find many that aren't affiliated with terrorist orgs.

[@hombrepobre9646]

you can go and do it your self, I found your comment as childish, did you ask your self why chickens don't speak for their self?

[@shakunkothari2272]

Go ahead find someone who will speak freely about Hamas. Many live in fear of their lives. When you got youngsters shouting "we are hamas" do you think you can have a conversation with them who support a terror group.

[@robertmusil5831]

Hi NYT. Do you feel like now issuing a correction to your assertion from last October that "What Israel is fighting to defend is a society that values human life and the rule of law" or will you need more time (i..e more Palestinian death) for a reappraisal of that claim? Or perhaps it is your contention that "more than 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza are dead" having expired as an unfortunate consequence of old age?

[@ChilledfishStick]

This figure was given by Hamas, and includes their own. Having said that, what does a figure, alone, tell you about who's guilty of what? To illustrate, let's take a hostage situation, where a bank robber kills a hostage, and takes 10 others. When SWAT arrives, a gunfight ensues, and 3 people, possibly including the suspect himself are killed. Without any further knowledge, how do you decide who's guilty of what? In a situation where the suspect is killed along with 2 hostages, not including the first one, are killed by SWAT, in their attempt to stop the armed suspect. Who is ultimately responsible for people getting killed?

[@evamurray2564]

Blame hamas as they hide like cowards in tunnels under civilian infrastructure. So according to you, no hamas terrorists were killed in the war only innocent civilians. That’s extremely gullible. These numbers also do not account for how many were killed by hamas and other terrorist groups misfired rockets. You are using hamas numbers that do not account for many factors. This is the first war in history that reports numbers on a daily basis. Most wars it takes years to understand the full extent of civilian deaths. The Russian Ukraine war best estimate is about 1 million people killed or injured. The Sudan war the numbers are all over the place. But no one cares about tjose brutal wars as it doesn't involve Israel.

[@ryno4ever433]

@evamurray2564 we're talking about around 1200 people dead on one side and 40000 on the other (a number that hasn't been updated in many months). Gaza has been basically leveled. Are you seriously trying to draw an equivalency or draw into question who is wrong here? The answer is obvious. Israel has gone well beyond proportional response a long time ago.

[@evamurray2564]

@ryno4ever433 you are viewing war as if it's a numbers game. Using your logic, Israel's response should have been the same as hamas, which is to commit atrocities and take 250 hostages then call it quits. BTW, the 40 000 are hamas numbers and have been updated continually. When was the last time you heard any updates on the Sudan war, the Syrian civil war, the Ukraine Russia war? Also why is it that hamas supporters never acknowledge that the numbers reported never include hamas terrorists or the number killed by the terrorists misfired rockets that explode in Gaza.

[@shlomokenquinn7391]

Good God- no agency ascribed to Palestinians. How about their refusal to accept a state time after time? How about never teaching towards co-existence? Palestinians society has NEVER accepted a two a state solution. They have always wanted it all to themselves. David and Ezra are two American Jews who just don't get the cruel realities of the Middle East.

[@RayCharound]

another hour of treating one side of the conflict like infirmed children that have zero responsibility for their situation

[@Owenalpe]

Spot on

[@clareodonnell810]

Are you talking about Israel?

[@raincadeify]

Could you clarify?

[@conradb209]

Sinwar is a “religious kid”? How stupid is that. He headed the tunnels, the rockets, the pure hatred, Oct 7, the hostages, the demands for terrorists held in Israel to be released to do more damage to Israel. Not hard to understand that he only understands hate and power. He has to be stopped.

[@wiggy5728]

Cosplay Old Testament lunatics, supported by the powers that be. That’s the only issue

[@freekfaro5606]

Excellent conversation. Only issue ignored: the unconditional and free supply of American weaponry, without which the situation would be completely different. To which I might add: the complete ignoring of American Palestinians, both by Harris in her campaign rallies in Michigan, and by Democrats in the Senate hearing a few days ago.

[@robertmusil5831]

Thanks! You just saved me 70 minutes of my day. If this is the "only issue ignored" then this conversation has as much value as a discussion about fire-fighting that refuses to mention the merits of water.

[@freekfaro5606]

@@robertmusil5831 it added to my knowledge. Maybe it will to yours.

[@julkiewitz]

@@robertmusil5831 They acknowledge it, they just talk about what is rather than engaging in hypotheticals. If you want to know the impact of American weapons on the situation you should listen to some military expert. It's not his area of expertise. How would he ever know what the impact would be of an arms embargo and whether there are supply alternatives or there aren't.

[@leetaub6499]

2 people talking on points that they agree with narrow minded thoughts

[@freekfaro5606]

@@leetaub6499 if you take the effort to actually listen, you'd know that they don't agree on everything.

[@vereeneparnell2230]

Thank you for one of the most astute and informative conversations I’ve heard on the Palestinian-Israeli quagmire in a very long time. We need more conversations on all levels.

[@rosemarygaia4360]

try the electronic intifada and what they say about some of the New York Times stories and the lack of evidence

[@zeegani]

Bring Palestinian american to give their side of the story. You have Khalid rashidi, noura erakat, mouin rabbani. We need to hear both sides of the conflict.

[@ru13r44]

This is one of the most informative podcast I listen to about this conflict. These guys have biases everyone does, but their smart enough to know that.

[@ActFast]

Ezra looks good with a beard 🧔‍♂️

[@Zirkusman]

Thanks for the interview!

[@tikipharm5957]

Educate yourselves. Abbas is no moderate. He was the architect of the Munich massacre

[@SebastianLarsen]

Literally holds a PhD in Holocaust denial.

[@CoordinateurDapproche]

Abbas is a monster. Read his book about the "Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism". His BS helps fuel this nonsense.

[@squintoo]

11:30 they still will be talkin about "understanding both sides" when Israel has bombed the whole region back into the stone age.

[@iamyoda66]

Very informative interview…Netanyahu is taking a great country (Israel) down a terrible path.

[@tallytalbot3430]

It was never great

[@GriffinPatrickDavis]

3 minutes in Sinwar “fled” without any context on who he was fleeing from. Got it!

[@chipparker3950]

The purpose of the establishment of the state of Israel was to provide a safe place for Jews. By that standard the project of establishing a state for Jews is, after 75 years, a failure.

[@badlandssocialclub]

*one of the purposes, in the grand scheme of creating an ethnostate

[@supernova7848]

Just as well they didnt go to Madagascar or Uganda as was suggested at some point, then again Ugandans or Madagascans probably would not have been lobbing 🚀 decades later . When the Britishers retreated from their co lonial projects after slicing the continent like a pizza well into the 60s and 70s

[@ef2718]

@@supernova7848 Jews live in Jewdea for the last 3300 years, Jews have their history in Jewdea, follow the culture of Judea, language of Judea and religion of Judea. Arabs follow the culture of Arabia, language of Arabia and religion of Arabia. Jews - Judea. Arabs - Arabia.

[@ef2718]

The number of casualties of the Arab Israeli conflict all sides combined over 100 years is not even in the top 50 list, despite being falsely presented as #1conflict by the media (Gues why), Egyptian soldiers being the largest group of casualties then Israeli soldiers then Syrian soldiers.

[@ef2718]

@@supernova7848 WTH are Jews living in Jewdea?

[@Gamla123]

I lived in Israel and just recently spent two months there. This was a good conversation, but it doesn't begin to scratch the surface of all the different realities. As much as both of you have spent time in Israel, you don't know the reality of actually living in the place and facing all the challenges.

[@chtadow13]

Please explain colonization to me in simpler terms. Where did Zionist grandparents come from.

[@bkrumer]

Netanyahu capitulated to public pressure when he agreed to release prisoners for a single hostage. He has learned from his mistake but the pubic seems to have forgotten that a hostage deal ensures more hostages will be taken.

[@relaxedleisure4766]

Yeah, he’s clearly traumatized by the disastrous Shalit deal.

[@AbuSous2000PR]

Smarty...Bibi is the best president Sinwar ever wanted....

[@Userjo37]

This is so skewed it is WILD

[@rossbaker9721]

Fantastic interview. Great set!

[@SouhailEntertainment]

Introduction and Overview of the Current Situation (00:00) Who is Yahya Sinwar? Background and Influence (01:24) Life in Israeli Prison and Learning About Israeli Society (03:42) Sinwar's Hostage Negotiations and Release (08:17) Hezbollah and the Northern Border Situation (16:37) American Influence and Biden's Cautionary Approach (20:12) Potential for a Broader Conflict with Lebanon (21:24) Israeli Politics and Netanyahu's Grip on Power (28:17) Naftali Bennett: The Next Potential Prime Minister? (50:41) Discussion on Religious Nationalism and Political Shifts (51:00) American-Israeli Relations and Future Generational Shifts (58:24) Conclusion: Reflecting on Possible Future Outcomes (1:04:43)

[@shahpoetix]

David Remnick’s book Lenin’s Tomb is a great read!

[@cbzoo883]

Tragic situation but outstanding show. Really appreciate David Remnick

[@ihasankerimcem3680]

Truth, honesty,integrity. Was very refreshing. Actually learned. Thank you both.

[@geraldvaughan5103]

How can you so self-righteous as a colonizer? Amazing.

[@Eran_Haim]

@@geraldvaughan5103 colonizers are the ones who think Bethlehem, Scheme, Hebron, and Jericho are somehow their “indigenous” cities lol. Israel is very much like the Spanish reconquista where the Spanish took their country back from the Arab muslims that colonized them. For Spain it took them 700 years of struggle, and for Israel it was cooking for a long time and when the opportunity came we did it and returned from exile 🙏❤️🇮🇱

[@reuvenpolonskiy2544]

You probably should ask the Arab-Muslims invadors who colonized the whole middle east including Israel.

[@wiggy5728]

@@Eran_Haim ​​⁠ what the cap are you on about reconquista? The problem is some people with a 2000 year old belief based claim, and supported by the powers that be (awful colonialist people as well), turned up at our home and violently expelled us, and have been god awful to us since. Those people that did that to us, don’t understand why we hate their guts and why we would fight back, even with our lives, just to give them a bloody nose, if nothing else. Those perpetrators have the audacity to play victim, and and their backers would stop at nothing to support them. Just a cluster truck of dishonour on every level They’re trying to push some narrative that we’re Saudi or some c rap like that, I’M A CHRISTIAN FROM HAIFA FOR GODS SAKE, HOW CAN I BE SAUDI TOU DUMB…… I’m a Palestinian and I speak Arab, and you will not erase me you cowards That’s the bottom line, history, religion, politics have nothing to do here.

[@ef2718]

Jews in Jewdea are de-colonizers

[@ef2718]

Jews live in Jewdea for the last 3300 years, Jews have their history in Jewdea, follow the culture of Judea, language of Judea and religion of Judea. Arabs follow the culture of Arabia, language of Arabia and religion of Arabia. Jews - Judea. Arabs - Arabia.

[@lindarobertson7089]

Interesting discussion from a Western media perspective. It would be more valuable if a Palestinian voice were included. Because David Remnick isn't without his own biases in supporting Israel.

[@ef2718]

Islamists demonstrations around the globe should tell you it is not a local conflict about land.

[@ef2718]

Read the founding charter of Hamas it will tell you all that you need to know

[@kg356]

Did either of them even mention the fact that they're both Jewish?

[@Zirkusman]

What is the name of the Netanjahu documentary?

[@fks35555]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bibi_Files

[@Zirkusman]

@@fks35555 Thanks!

[@Shoshanna-jn3fx]

GREAT AND INSIGHTFUL INTERVIEW ,

[@lyndaproper1313]

Thank you, Ezra. Remnick seems to have a deep, even more than academic understanding of the situation, but, thankfully, you, Ezra, kept bringing him back to the immediate, revolting situation the Palestinians are in. Your focus was impressive, to say the least It is not hard to imagine what the Israeli policies/strategies can/will lead to. And if American policies change at all, Netanyu will have led Israel into a dire, even tragic situation. Revenge is overrated - but most people don't know that.

[@BrianFoster-ji9fp]

Sad to hear my own equally dismal but sketchily informed prognosis eerily reflected in this conversation. I need to go spend some time with some toddlers. They know better.

[@ekaterinagorkhover8714]

Why in a beginning of this conversation no one bother to mentioned that this Hamas leader not only learned language in prison but also was cured of brain cancer, while in an Israeli prison. The actual mastermind behind the October 7th attacks was someone whose life had been saved by a Jewish oncologist.

[@raincadeify]

What's your point? In most parts of the world a doctor would save a patient no matter what race or political persuasion. The fact you point out proof of humane treatment of Palestinians by Israeli DOCTORS says what your base expectation is, doesn't it? I'm saying that's a low bar you have for Israelis.

[@KJ-yises]

@@raincadeifyit’s not about Israel. It’s about how entitled the patient is. Bite the hand that feeds you.

[@raincadeify]

@@KJ-yises Always with the animal comparisons. I think you don't see your own bigotry.

[@greggeisenberg9196]

​@@raincadeifyThey save his life, he murders 1000s. You can't see the tragic irony?

[@gkappa4085]

​​@@KJ-yisesI can't decode of this comment can be thought of from a cretin or an amoral monster....hmm

[@HUSSKR]

They “fled” in 1948 from their Palestinian city that would become Ashkelon for no reason whatsoever…

[@ef2718]

For opening a genocidal war on Jews yet losing

[@Userjo37]

I caught that too! The town where someone lived all of a sudden became a different name and taken over

[@HUSSKR]

@@Userjo37 they think we are fools, but they are only fooling themselves.

[@ef2718]

Ashqelon was already there for 3000 years.

[@ef2718]

@@Userjo37 That happened to the old community of Jews that used to live in Gaza city, only 20 years earlier.

[@Wolf-Spirit_Alpha-Sigma]

It's pretty clear on which side this podcast stands. Couldn't be more clear.

[@thehappyhound770]

What a great interview! Thank you!

[@teddmented]

Israel saved Sinwar’s life. Terrible mistake

[@zaloo]

israel created 3000 Sinwars in the last 11 months

[@PhilipBrandt1973]

@@teddmented imagine litte Sinwar seeing all that destruction as a boy. He is a real example of what Israel created. Apartheid and genocide.

[@CarlosIowa]

"Our American friends offer us money, arms and advice. We take the money. We tske the arms. We decline the advice." - Moshe Dayan. There you go ...

[@Nafion2]

Watching this interview is like watching a train wreck - it's so wrong but I can't turn it off. I'm Just amazed at the level of, either self delusion or intellectual dishonesty. It's just pure propaganda. Good propaganda always has a hint of reality and a whole lot of pure bull****.

[@renblais1274]

what about it is propaganda

[@ecyranot]

I hope Ezra reads the comments. Ezra, I have been following politics for many, many years; yet, I have no idea how polling works. A New York Times poll just came out that shows quite different results from the NBC poll of just a few days ago. I wonder if you have considered (or maybe you have already?) having a polling expert on to explain how the polls are done. For example, in the current race, how does the polling try to reflect a possible increase in young voters? Do they go onto college campuses? We suspect they don't answer phone calls. Thanks. And not to be self-serving, I think you're the best interviewer I have heard. Your work on the Israeli-Hamas et al conflict is a good example.

[@michaelf8221]

There are several Ezra Klein podcasts in particular talking to poll experts. I recall one with Nate Solon as recently as a month ago.

[@kg356]

He doesn't even go on X, there's no way hes reading KZbin comments

[@YepSmoke]

Commenters seem to want a Palestinian voice. I suggest Mosab Hassan Yousef.

[@shokosugi2346]

I suggest you stop listening to the ramblings of mad men.

[@paulheydarian1281]

There are so many madmen around. They seem hard to avoid.

[@arcticgoddess]

Mosab is great. But his greatness is overshadowed by the evil and selfishness of Netanyahu. His crimes include giving Hamas the money they used for bombs, hang gliders and motorcycles to rpe and brutally kill peace loving Israelis. The ones most sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians. Israelis waited 11,12 hours to be rescued by disorganized soldiers only a few miles away. He doesn't care about the hostages, who he could have had a year ago when Hamas offered a straight across deal for prisoners. Netanyahu knows his life is over and trials and prison are in his future, why not stir the pot with Hezbollah with their 100,000 rockets? He is a danger to Israelis and everyone in the region. Hamas also gets no quarter from me. They were horribly cruel rulers and instigated the slaughter if Jews and Palestinians alike. Innocent Palestinians have been slaughtered. But Netayahu has made it 1000x worse. Biden has been a great president in all respects except this one. Now that he is only working on his legacy, the day after Harris wins the election,🤞 he needs to have a word with Netanyahu and tell him that he will not send young American soldiers into Lebanon to die for Netanyahu's ego. He should use his leverage to stop the money and weapons to Netanyahu until he stops strikes on Gaza, signs a peace accord with Egypt and Qatar and sign the paperwork to start to rebuild Gaza with everyone's help, and start the two state solution, and get the nasty and illegal American Jews out of the West Bank. The UK and everyone else has stopped weapons to Israel. Why should America continue to be Netanyahu's sucker when he wants Trump the dictator elected? The state of Israel is different from the bad leadership of Netanyahu.

[@What-kw6ox]

He’s a Mossad spy. But good try G…. supporter

[@YepSmoke]

@@What-kw6ox Shalom! LOLOL

[@shokuchideirdrecarrigan7402]

War is chaos, Ezra. It is not a neatly planned and executed production like your podcast. There is not some over-arcing tidy story line with a clear outcome.

[@cjmann3033]

absolute nonviolence is not a requirement of Judaism, the religion so sharply restricts the use of violence, that nonviolence often becomes the only way to fulfilling a life of truth, justice and peace, which Judaism considers to be the three tools for the preservation of the world.

[@alyssavela3797]

I really like seeing Ezra Klein. This is how I will consume this program from now on

[@neilosman4440]

As an Israeli liberal, I am not sure what are the US real geostrategic interests. On that one hand I would welcome a clear and decisive policy towards a two-state solution which looks like an authentic US interest. On the other hand, it seems as if for the US Israel is first and foremost a US military base, or just a non-Arab allay in the middle east, that the US don't really care about Israel's exact liberal or democratic values, but more on its exclusive reliance on US support.

[@ehsanakbari3185]

You understand US policy better than most. The US wants clients for its military-industrial complex. If you understand this, then US policy in the Middle East and Ukraine starts to make sense.

[@micahgetz872]

If you want a clear two state policy, you won't get it. Israel's conflicts have been uniquely detrimental to the post WWII order, but the US voter knows more about when Israel's in danger than about its policies and US politicians respond accordingly. All that matters is that Israel is safe. Two state, one state, democratic values, who cares.

[@micahgetz872]

You see the US doesn't view Israel as an ally, it's just inherently nice that Israel exists. There is no economic, military, or strategic interest in Israel. Israel actually acts counter to all of those interests: Israel is a competing tech hub, it hurts US relations with the Saudis, and isn't standing with the US on Ukraine or much during 9/11. Maybe there's a red line somewhere, but consider that the US fork over all sorts of money or will stand with Israel against literally everyone else in the world and expect nothing in return. Edit: Ah, Ezra brings this up at 1:06:02 but US & Biden's support of Israel was a signal of being anti-Nazi and anti-USSR atheism post WWII, but in the future the US may need a reason to support Israel.

[@LA333manifest]

@@ehsanakbari3185 "clients for its military-industrial complex" - can you explain this further? the US is supplying the money, weapons etc so how does the US benefit? US is loosing money being a part of these wars. Would love your insight to better understand this notion.

[@lyndaproper1313]

I think, first and foremost, the US is dealing with a duly elected leader, Netanyahu. Contrary to what Netanyahu has done, the US supports the leader who is legitimately in power in Israel - pretty much, no matter what. A reasonably stable situation benefits the US as it does all commerical concerns. The US has, and will, support Netanyahu until the Israeli people change leaders - count on it. ( The only question I have is, "How destabilizing can Netanyahu become in the Middle East before the US begins to exert real power to restrain him?) But, at this point, it's getting reasonable to think deals have been made with major arab states to allow Israel to take the reputational hit for "cleaning the gangs out of the neighborhood.") The Gulf War gave the US a larger footprint in the Middle East. Israel is now not the only one. Times are a'changin' - Originally, the US and the world were appalled by the treatment the Jews had endured in WWII Germany, (to say nothing of, "What do we do with all these German Jews?" after WWII) and that sympathetic and/or cynical US attitude has continued since WWII. But memories grow old and attitudes change with subsequent generations, Trump has a fundamentalist Christian constituency who supports Israel completely - they need Jews to be converted for their "Second Coming" of Christ. Harris has developed no such constituency but voters who are appalled by the treatment of the Palestinians will be voting mostly for her. She has made no promises on the subject, but she does acknowledge those voters' concerns. Neither Biden nor Harris will "rock the boat" on this issue - at least not right now. The election between Trump and Harris is pretty much tied right now. The election is Nov. 5, 2024, but the person elected doesn't take office until Jan. 20, 2025. Netanyahu knows this. He's got to hurry with his plans in case Harris is elected. So, my paltry analysis is: The US wiil act in its "own best interests" and the interests of International Capitalism. Crony capitalism will matter. Keep an eye on the US election.

[@researchkitchen47]

I lost you at Sin*ar being responsible behind Iran firing missiles at Israel. You are explaining things as if bad stuff are just happening to Israel because it's in a bad neighborhood, removing any responsibility. Before Iranian missile attack that was announced and almost coordinated with Israel, hasn't Israel fired missiles at Iranian consulate in Syria? Isn't that a stupid move if you don't want retaliation? Am I missing something?

[@paulheydarian1281]

No, you're not missing anything. However, you're making a huge mistake by spewing facts in a fact-free zone. You should check that urge and lock it up in a drawer at home.

[@soverycomplicated]

I fear you’re missing a great deal my fellow soul. They (Hamas, Houthis, Hezbollah, Assad’s Syria, & the Iranian IRGC) literally refer to themselves as the axis of liberation. Within hrs of crazed Gazans slaughtering more Jews in a day since the Holocaust Hezbollah which operates thru the commands of Iran on the opposite side of Israel in Lebanon began launching rockets into Israel. For some 9 months Israel absorbed the blows while occasionally taking out IRGC efforts to turn Syria into another front in this clear war AGAINST Israel. Liberation means diff things to diff ppl but if you don’t see a correlation bet 6 recognized terror groups building a ring of fire all around Israel while using Islamist extremism to justify their stated aims of annihilating the world’s only Jewish state then maybe you don’t know as much as you believe you do

[@Gamla123]

You're missing the fact that it was a coordination hub for terror attacks against Israel

[@fillosof66689]

I find it deeply ironic that you are talking about how important it is to keep the idea of retaliation for hostile actions in mind - and yet carry water for Iran, the state sponsor of most of the terror groups in the region, two of which represent the most prominent threat to Israeli lives.

[@researchkitchen47]

I have no sympathy for Iranian leadership. Neither do I support them in any way. Objectively speaking Arab masses (not all leadership), view USA and other allys of Israel, the same way as you view Iran. As a sponsor of state terro*ism.

[@rachelebgi]

wonderful interview

[@danielleriverin3117]

My God, what's gonna take to respect each others life?

[@elijahredacted8196]

Time to revisit this video following the news

[@Eran_Haim]

Bennet may be religious but he is a liberal. He was in a government with the muslim brotherhood part, he knows how to work with everyone. He is liberal and I tell you this as Israeli.

[@addyhadmelike655]

a liberal zionist is the same as a liberal nazi. non existant

[@illahham]

Delusional

[@MathildaMann]

Israeli's should be pleased to have a leader like Bibi. He is strong and brave.

[@missjtunde]

Is there a reason why he failed to mention that sinwar was born and raised in a refugee camp? Important detail, no? To say his family fled to Gaza is incredibly misleading.

[@pablopacifico]

Incredible interview

[@venkatesanmurali4553]

Fantastic piece! I have wondered - why doesn’t the US Democratic Party ticket, KH/TW, delineate between support for Israel while condemningBibi Netanyahu. Genuinely want to understand, Ezra.

[@Paul-n3h]

Thanks

[@naveedgh]

Amazing deep dive on this deep and complex topic

[@scottwolf8633]

The NY slimes employing figures for those KIA that the UN has debunked? "In June, The Wall Street Journal reported that trying to maximize civilian casualties has been part of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s “brutal calculation” on how to win the war. Sinwar spoke clearly about how he saw his strategy of putting civilians in danger for the cause of destroying Israel: “These are necessary sacrifices,” he said."

[@jamesphelps1958]

These are 2 of my favorite commenters and writers today. They’re clearly eyed realists on the situation I really don’t get the hate and vitriol in the comments.

[@AutumnLeavey]

Israeli lives are no more valuable than Palestinian lives. i am so frustrated that everyone talks about the hostages while israel kills more innocent palestinian babies than all the hostages combined. There is no sympathy left for Israel. I used to be a Zionist, but after the genocide started you read more about the history and you come back to the central question, why can't everyone live together in a shared democracy with a division between church and state? Listen to the answers Zionists say in response to that question and you can really understand how radically right wing these people are. Palestinians and Jews already live and work side by side, the system we have now is just apartheid.

[@enknaran]

Does Hamas want a two state solution? Edit: I don't want my comment to sound to biased. I don't think either far right government of Israel or Palestine wants any solution other than the destruction of the other state and it's people

[@Tuckerz5d]

and why aren’t the thousands of Palestinians held in Israeli military prisons, without charges or legal recourse, considered “hostages”?

[@briannasweeney-u8j]

where is there a functioning secular democracy in the middle east that protects ethnic and religious minorities? muslims are slaughtering other religious groups (and even other muslims) all over africa and the middle east and no one talks about it. Israel is the only nation ever in the news. Stop projecting your western perspective on arab muslims who don't want to live in that way. it's basically thought colonialism. Palestinian leadership is either arab nationalist or islamofascist, and the jews don't want to live under their rule. fundamentally different cultures shouldn't have to live together. it would just be civil war as brutal as we've seen in the rest of MENA. they need to accept the 2 state solution (one they could have had in 1948 with even more land had the arab league not declared war on the fledgling jewish state) or leave for other arab nations a few miles away.

[@peaceonearth9923]

​@@enknaran Do the Palestinians want a two state solution? Have they ever? Israel did. BEFORE they learned the lesson of October 7.

[@michaelneufeld4515]

They already live in a shared democracy with separation between church and state, it's called Israel. Palestinians can start their own democracy with separation between church and state if they like, why are you against that?

[@NoEl-en3uc]

0:02 I didn’t recognize Ezra! Wow.. a voice of generations.

[@videosarchive8058]

Nice kicks Ezra.

[@KHALK008]

Like Shakespeare once said: If I don't steal it someone else will.

[@sigmundsilber2210]

Palestinians have the right to their own state once they accept Israel and pushing Palestinians into Jordan is an idiotic idea.

[@wariannn1253]

Biased.

[@Relic5150]

This is such a massively different perspective than the Daily Episodes the other day. It's good for the NYT to bring in multiple perspectives. I've always been a big fan of Ezra, but since October 7th his hosts have been overwhelmingly Isreali apologists that ignore a lot of history that was highlighed on the Daily the other day. Ezra, I wish you would bring more balance and bring on some Palestinian/Arab voices and perspectives.

[@7135HOLLY]

and what perspective is that other than we want to "undo Israel". You will NEVER find a Palestinian from Ramallah, Dearborn, Toronto, London, etc. state publicly, " I recognize there are two indigenous peoples on this land, Arabs and Jews. Those two peoples have an equal right to live on the land. I want an independent Palestine next to an independent Israel". All the talk of "peace" and "justice" is total bullshit. The Palestinian elites cling to their fantasy of "undoing Israel" to their own detriment for the past 100 years. The war of 1948 is over. It's the same bullshit time after time. They've turned down every peace offer, last made in 2008 and 2000, with East Jerusalem as their capital. October 7 was their vision of "return".

[@sandramarasalomao1324]

É ..parece que palestinos não existem mesmo ! O sionistas podem querer fazer desaparecer os palestinos e libaneses e sírios e todos os povos dali .. PARA FAZER « A GRANDE ISRAEL »!! Mas os árabes que estão e sempre estiveram lá na terras deles … Não podem achar que o intruso é .. SÃO OS ISRAELENSES QUE INVENTARAM UM ESTADO RACISTA QUE PROMOVE APARTHEID E OCUPA ILEGALMENTE TUDO !! Até quando ?? Até quando os árabes.. e os « TERRORISTAS » ganharem essa guerra ..! Essa batalha !! Espero que ganhem !!

[@lyndaproper1313]

Don't you see Ezra reserved that position of Palestinian advocacy for himself? Look at Ezra's eyes. Remnick, the unflappable, sweet-talking Israeli apologist knew Ezra's position. It kind of reminds me of Trump's " good people on both sides" comment. Too subtle ?

[@james4942]

Why is this interview so tense?

[@MayorMcC666]

calling Trump the most illiberal person imaginable after talking about israel for an hour is insulting

[@Ihatehandlesfashyyoutube]

Still butthurt from the pagers? 🤣🤣🤣🤣📟📟📟📟✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽🇮🇱🇮🇱

[@AsifKhan-hf9zy]

american hid ler............. straight up

[@zaradaneshvar3904]

Excellent conversation

[@Cat-bg2ge]

The U.S need's to follow the Constitution which demand's we practice " separation of church and state". That goe's for our country and foreign country's. And forbid's fighting endless religious war's.

[@JorgeRzezak]

Ezra Klein and David Remnick conversation shows the binary way of thought they have, for them left is all good and right is all wrong, the good and the bad, then they do not criticize the left under any circumstances. I always though on the center left, but 7/10 changed completely my views, and I do not credit the left nor the right for they wrong views. The 7/10 should have have to change some views of those intellectuals too, instead, they are insisting and not adjusting to their new reality.

[@Kallindril]

Fascinating things happen when you Google “61% of Israeli men”

[@raincadeify]

..and 41% of women..? If true, it tracks. Israelis are fans of patriarchy.

[@gems8167]

Yikes😅

[@Eran_Haim]

@@Kallindril that’s so bullshit. Don’t try to dehumanize us and lie. You love lying so much and God punishes liars

[@coolsolder]

Its "with a spouse". AKA forcing sex with your wife, what is she for? All the links are click bait.

[@engma2006]

That was quite revealing but not surprising 😅

[@JosephPatrickQuinn-rj1tg]

Stephen Daedalus (aka James Joyce): "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken." On the other hand: "...to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream..."

[@eliseocolonjr2133]

What is the "status quo"? It began before Oct.7.

[@ef2718]

That conflict started 1400 years ago when Mohamad failed to convince Jews to adopt him as a leader

[@veridianacarvalho9209]

Thank you

[@asafhenig3833]

You are wrong about water distribution simply wrong

[@paulatunprawat3544]

You all, hold the signs, go free them.

[@ef2718]

David Ramnik, One does not need to be even an army corporal for one to understand that a 9 miles wide country can not be protected

[@sigmundsilber2210]

The Electoral College is part of maintaining a democracy in the U.S.

[@bernardzsikla5640]

That was brilliant and very useful in helping me understand the current reality and the recent history of modern Israel. One question, where was Mossad when Hamas was pushing moderate Palestinians figures in Gaza, out of the windows??

[@lawrencetchen]

Netanyahu benefited, and said as much, when Hamas came to power. It makes sense when one far right ultranationalist has an opposing far right ultranationalist to rally their people behind - nothing unifies like a terrifying foe. Both peoples need to lift and elevate moderate and conciliatory leaders if we want any hope of peace.

[@relaxedleisure4766]

@@lawrencetchen Netanyahu was the leader of the opposition back then, and repeatedly warned the center left government of the time that if Israel didn’t reenter Gaza then Hamas would gain control. There are a lot of things to criticize him for, but supporting the withdrawal from Gaza isn’t one of them.

[@cbzoo883]

I would be interested to know David Remnick's view of the impact of the Abraham Accords

[@leoanazemi3797]

Where is Norman

[@ibrahimsiddiqui6348]

Too bad you can’t have any Palestinian journalist on here.

[@stevenkia6393]

It seems that the main narrative is that Israel is the occupier of Arab Land. But historically, which people were occupying the land of Israel when the Babylonians, Persians, Assyrians, Romans, Ottomans and British conquered the land of Israel? Is it the Israelites or the Palestinians?

[@jonathanrees8288]

It was both, and a lot more. Even if your assumption were correct it would be difficult to lay claim to a land ancestors lived in thousands of years ago. My grandmother was Polish and before the 2nd World War was born and grew up in an area that is now Ukraine. Should I go and claim my 'birthright' and just move back into her old home? ☺️

[@veritas_sweden]

The total interview lacks the perspective of the cult's book and ideology there the whole community is taught jews are lesser people and should not be allowed to rule. So this interview lacks credibility.

[@nubbie11]

Im sorry the didnt talk about America's support for Israel, what we get out of it and is that worth it.

[@rosarose3443]

Then you need to include Iran's involvement also.

[@MB-nx9tq]

Whole situation is a tragedy. The story of the Jews has been one tragedy after another, and Palestinians have no home anymore. The violence and religious/racial hatred that both sides have is evident of the flaws humans innately have. That land seems almost destined to be cursed, and it’s sad to see.

[@rosarose3443]

If you want to know what both think watch Corey Gil Shuster who interviews both in their own words.

[@leetaub6499]

You are so narrow minded and choosing to discuss with a person that have the same opinion as yours.

[@leorabrisblat7083]

According esteemed Obama biographer David Garrow, Obama and his very serious ex girlfriend broke up outside an Eichamnn trial exhibit in Chicago because he would not condemn the rising antisemitism at the time. It meant a lot to Sheila Miyoshi Jager as her Dutch grandparents had saved Jewish children in the Holocaust. He became aggressive during this fight and she was devastated. It is no surprise that he was the most hostile president to Israel in decades.

[@conradb209]

Surprising that Obummer didn’t have a pager.

[@joergquasnowitz3495]

It is always fascinating to watch nations that claim to have strong ties to religion and peace, rage wars for decades and have all but contempt for anyone who is not of their nation. As if they have never read a word of the scripture they seem to uphold so strongly. But to watch jews in Israel, after all of what their grand parents have gone through during WWII, treat their palestinian neighbours exactly the way jews have been treated in Europe in these dark days is beyond the pale.

[@asafhenig3833]

To Americans that criticize Israel here I strongly suggest to evaluate Israel actions against actions done by other countries who have faced existential threat. For example study history and check Britain response to Nazi Germany blitz and the level of Drezdain

[@hectorestrada3764]

@@asafhenig3833 I think you frame that incorrectly, the concept of strategic bombing was a cruel bit at that time acceptable policy because nobody had precision weapons. Israel has created this existential threat with the irregular warfare used against the Palestinians knowing that they only have limited choices to respond if they do, either way, Israel wins and they both parties know it. I’m not saying what Hamas or any other terrorist has done is right but there are other forms of terrorism that Israel uses against the people of the West Bank to support the settlers. That is obvious to those of us who know how that works. If the America people knew how Palestinians are thrown out of their homes and those homes are given to settlers there may be a little change in how we see things. Israel’s strangle hold on the lives of Palestinians makes more enemies, everyone knows that there is a large factions of Israelis who supported the assignation of Yitzak Rabin. This would have already dissipated if he could have carried out his goals. Israel would be greater for it.

[@Makerx2011]

What is your point?

[@explorer0213]

The Geneva convention was drawn up after. So we're international laws coz it was wrong.

[@relaxedleisure4766]

@@explorer0213 But other countries didn’t give a shit about it when they fought (and repeatedly violated the convention) less important wars post-convention (Vietnam,Afghanistan,Iraq,Korea are just examples from the US), so it feels like Israel is the only country that is being forced to care about it.

[@ezra7088]

I think your comment does have something of value. Of course Israelis are scared, heartbroken, and angry. And there are many other tragedies going on around the world that must be addressed. But none of that justified 40,000 thousand killed. None of that makes me feel any less sick to know the US is sending Israel weapons to murder innocents in my name. Of course I have sympathy for Israelis. I have friends living in Israel. But can you not extend that same sympathy to Palestinians living in Gaza? Can you not understand the terror, misery, and yes, anger, that they must be feeling? There have been many atrocities committed throughout time. But nothing, including Hamas' terrorist attack, justifies Israel's genocide in Palestine

[@sarkasha]

Bunch of malarkey. Two guys that have no idea

[@deigamohamed707]

Excellent ❤👏🏾👏🏾

[@raquelfereres6396]

Stop quoting Hamas Ministry of Health. How many Hamas fighters are dead that os the question.

[@batteredskullsummit9854]

Israel is a lone lion surrounded by jackals

[@jebbo-c1l]

Israel is the biggest bully in the region, imposing apartheid and genocide on the Palestinians. It has always been a Goliath vs david story

[@Lyra0966]

Lone?? The US has given Israel 50,000 tonnes of armaments, logistical support and brought an armada of warships to the region to support the IDF. Try to think more before posting absurd comments.

[@I999-g2s]

All their TikTok posts and even the pompous words of the president etc is not lion-like at all

[@VinnyWilk]

And itself.😢

[@hectorestrada3764]

Being a native American and very proud of the country that I’ve served. I know that our history is not what it could’ve been maybe even what it should’ve been but one of the great things about these United States is that over the ark of history the American people have had the ability to look back, see the wrongs that we have done and try to do something about it. That doesn’t necessarily mean we have all seen the same thing and that doesn’t necessarily mean that what we tried to do work or the work is complete.. Israel now exists that’s just a fact, Palestine, the Palestinian people the people who live there prior to Israel whatever we want to call it or even call them. It’s not there anymore. It’s not the same thing with that said I fully understand where the Palestinian people are coming from, I fully understand and support their right to freedom to dignity to security, and I also fully understand that this was a genocide from the beginning. It wasn’t a matter of the Arab wars against the Israelis that set this in motion this was the plan brought about by the people who came to Israel, it was just a matter of time. I don’t hate Jews. I do have a problem with Zionist and I think what it ends up happening a lot of times is that if anybody tries to have this conversation if you are not Jewish or Palestinian, the extremes or the ignorance will step forward and label you antisemite on the Arab side, a traitor . The Israeli people have a right to live with freedom, dignity, and security as well. It is a sin of their fathers that is placed them in the position they’re in, but it’s also a cultural sin that allowed them to normalize this genocide against the Palestinians. What did deserved a brutal and immediate response however, when you put the lunatics in a position where lunatics can do whatever they want you can expect lunacy to take place. Both of these people have forgotten or discarded morality and dignity.. as an American. I truly wish our government would let Israel know that they are a friend, but their course of action is causing us to look at walking away. They need to come up with a plan in that area and if they’re only idea is to force out or slowly starve the rest of the Palestinian people then we need to cut ties with these people. They are different than the animals that they were created to be in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany or in the ghetto of Europe where they were the victims all they have done is went from victim to persecutor, I know what I’m saying may not be exactly how this happened, but it is exactly what they are and it is exactly that feeling of victimhood the anthem of never again that Zionist governments have continued this policy that is a genocide you can get on here and tell me all about how wrong I am but enter this discussion if you will truly justify knowing that if you slap someone across the face, there’s a pretty good chance they’re gonna slap you back when you’re dead. You have nothing to lose. I’m not saying that I support that but if you’re not willing to see the core of the problem if you’re not willing to address, the anger, the hate the division, the reasons for you are supporting this slow genocide.

[@Tuckerz5d]

Beautifully said, and I agree completely.

[@dgerch]

You are trying to map on American history to Israel. Jews are indigenous to Israel. It's the site of their ethnogenesis. Zionism is a decolonization project of returning Jews to where they came from only after being treated like vermin for two thousand years in diaspora, being repeatedly told that they don't belong in the countries they were exiled in. You are wagging your fingers at "the sins" of Israelis without even understanding the history or acknowledging that both sides have done heinous things as they compete for the same strip of land. Palestinians are also indigenous, by the way and their grievances are credible. I'm so tired of westerners regurgitating propaganda, writing these long moralizing diatribes that invariably erase Jewish history, not bothering to take time to learn the long history of a topic they are so very eager to have an opinion about. Again, Jews, like Native Americans are a tribe. A tribe that originated in Israel 3000 years ago, 1600 years before Islam emerged. Jews are a tribe that was expelled from their tribal lands, Israel, by colonizing forces (the Romans) and were scattered across the globe, hunted down for not renouncing their tribal affiliation.

[@hectorestrada3764]

@@dgerch I never said that the Jews did not have a right to be there, as a tribal person, I understand their perceived tie to the land just like any other people who once has an ancestral tie. I also understand that Jews were persecuted and chased from every place they ventured in the Christian world and needed to return home. I do not mean to sanitize anything about the violence committed by both sides in this conflict but everyone needs to recognize that what has happened is systematic and organized to be so. I am looking at 2 brothers killing each other to claim their mothers home and it didn't have to be or doesn't have to be like this but somebody want it. Again, I fully understand why the Zionist Jews who were expelled and exposed, endured the horrible things done to them would be who they are and at the same time I can understand when those same people could be compassionate and generous like those that came to the USA after WWII. Sometimes a soul can be broken and for this to carry on and for those who have the power to believe they are doing the right thing, yeah I would have to question how broken are you?

[@dgerch]

@@hectorestrada3764 firstly, I appreciate how this response is more balanced than the first post. Thank you. Secondly, running the risk of being more combative, there's nothing "perceived" about Jewish ties to the land. These ties, this indegenity is irrefutable. It's been confirmed through genetic testing, historical records, archaeology, continuity and preservation of identity and traditions, linguistics and common sense. This isn't a matter of opinion. Your family originated in North America and Europeans who had absolutely no history there committed genocide and ethnically "cleansed them". This exact same thing happened to my ancestors in Israel. To move forward with this conversation, this fact most be acknowledged. Secondly, you claim to have issues with Zionists but not Jews, which is a parlor trick antisemites use to indemnify themselves from accusations of bigotry. When 90% of Jews (who number only 16 million worldwide) identify as Zionists, half of which live in Israel, having a "problem" with Zionists functionally means you have a problem with Jews. Ask yourself, if I said that I don't have a problem with Native Americans, just people who believe Native Americans should have a right to inhabit their ancestral lands, would I not be bigoted towards Native Americans. In your response, you've acknowledged that there has been violence and transgressions from Palestinians and Israelis, and I appreciate this but you're original post almost exclusively mentioned Israeli violence against Palestinians, ignoring that almost every Israeli attack was a response to aggression. How broken am I? This is a condescending question. How broken are you? I'm in a constant state of disgust and anger watching people repeating this endless cycle of hatred against my people, laying all blame at their feet. I detest Netanyahu. I detest what his government is doing in the West Bank. I want two states but, as much as it's inconvenient to admit this, the Palestinian leadership presents at least as much resistance to living in peace as their Israeli counterparts. I'm grateful for the tone of your response but, like the world has always done, you hold Jews to a higher standard than any other people, not because you care, but as a pretext to justify your bigotry when we inevitably behave just as any other human being would. If every detail of what's happening in the Levant was identical but instead of Jews it was, say, Kurds nobody would care.

[@hectorestrada3764]

@@dgerch I would like to start by putting it like this and there is a reason I say there is a difference between Jews and Zionist, maybe I'm not using the right descriptor. I have had friends that were Jews, almost married a Jew, (The woman of my dreams). I appreciated her faith and her ties she had to it. There is a difference though between all of my American Jewish friends and what I have been calling "Zionist," again maybe I'm wrong. The Jews I know see a problem with the way this whole this with Israel has gone down but are proud to know that there is a place called Israel and they belong if they want. Im not sure how deep that goes but its cool with me. I appreciate that people long cast out of their ancestral lands made it home and were ready to restart in their dirt, with the water that quenched their ancestors thirst, I get that. I never heard any of them say, "yeah I'm cool with kicking Palestinians off their farms and giving that land to newly arrived Jews." We never had deep discussions to be honest about Israel's policies as they are Americans that are Jewish and I never considered them anything but Americans. I understand where you can see me as bigoted by my framing of people, again I might be wrong but I do not believe that I have a problem with Israelis so much as I have a problem with their policies much like people here in the states have a problem with our own policies and I don't make it a point to say that those who support most policies are one way or another but there is a difference when it comes to people who support violence against a group of people as a policy. Hamas is a terrorist organization that should be neutralized, and as quickly as I say that, I place those in the settler groups in almost the same camp, (Not exactly the same way because maybe those settlers don't know how they just came about having a home that seems pretty well furnished, and literally has everything you would need including food in the fridge, while a Palestinian family is carrying whatever they could carry down the road. Among Natives you have some who still are angry, hurt, vengeful, and not happy. I get that too and they are entitled to feel the way they want. I would say the same about "Jews" I get the hurt, the anger, the tortured spirit, I get the want for revenge, I get the want to defend your people, your land, your lives, your legacy, I get all of that but something has changed. This is not defense we are seeing overall, this is a well planned type of irregular warfare designed to force a people to fight, leave or die between Israel and the Palestinians. I do not blame the IDF for hunting every Hamas agent and killing them, but the policies implemented by Israel are not defensive, they are making Hamas terrorist. I refuse to say Jews are doing this because i'm positive that not all Jews support this but all Israelis suffer for this. I do not want to see another Israeli die for this and I do not want to see another Palestinian suffer for this. I asked the question about "Broken" because some of my people are broken, I'm a little broken but I can admit it, I don't know if they can, and because I'm broken I can also recognize that I need to do something about it, those among us Natives who are hurt and angry, they know too that they can do something about it, some do, some dont. This Israel thing is a lot different, this is a policy and action that I'm not sure if the torture and cruelty served upon the founders has become the real legacy of the new Jewish state. It all comes down to that really. Again, maybe that is the policy and everyone is ok with it but this is the same cruelty if not worse that their families suffered in Europe in the recent past.

[@zoharianovici1983]

Love the new facial hair style Ezra! Hope you will consider interviewing an Israeli leftist once. You know, the equivalent of an American progressive bit in Israel.

[@hablemosdepolitica-i2q]

El padre de Netanyahu fue un pésimo historiador que mintió mucho acerca de España.

[@relaxedleisure4766]

How did he lie? (I genuinely don’t know, I would love an honest answer)