#425 - The Nightmare Scenario (w/ Oren Kessler)
Oct 13, 2023•59 min
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Episode description
A few weeks before the Hamas pogrom, Moynihan was reading Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by the brilliant Israeli-American journalist and historian Oren Kessler. So he called him to talk through the current conflict, its historical antecedents, and how Hamas’s murder spree has effected his family.
* RIP Tomer Shoham
* The nightmare scenario
* “This is good for Hamas”
* The “I don’t support it, but you have to understand…” argument
* The “occupation” is Tel Aviv and Haifa
* Nowhere to go / hostage trading
* On the media coverage
* The Arab Revolt of 1936
* The beginning of Arab nationalism, Jewish terrorism
* Writing while angry
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