Every Israel-Palestine Debate In A Nutshell

About this episode

The episode discusses the cyclical nature of the Israel-Palestine debate and its historical roots.

Basically every Israel-Palestine debate goes like this: “Israel did X.” “Yeah, because Hamas did Y.” “Yeah, because Israel did Z.” “Yeah but only because the Palestinians keep doing A.” “Okay but that’s wouldn’t have happened of the Israelis hadn’t been doing B.” “But that only happened because the Arabs did C!” But if you bring the debate back far enough in time, eventually you get to the part where the western world forcibly dropped a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization without the permission of — and to the extreme detriment of — the people who were already living there. Reading by Tim Foley.

People in this episode

Hosts: Caitlin Johnstone, Tim Foley

Topics covered

• Israel-Palestine conflict
• historical context
• ethnostate
• civilization
• debate dynamics

Keywords

• Israel
• Palestine
• Hamas
• debate
• ethnostate
• civilization
• history
• conflict

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hamas, Israel

Places: Palestine, western world, Arab

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