#341 — Gaza & Global Order

Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about the events of
October 7th and the resulting war in Gaza. They discuss the
unraveling of global order, the failure of the IDF, the
incompetence of the Netanyahu government, the goals of Hamas, the
Saudi peace treaty, the right of Israel to exist, the status of
Palestinian and Jewish refugees, victim and perpetrator
narratives, compromise vs justice, the Palestinian citizens of
Israel, lessons from WW2, the danger of focusing on the past, the
perverse significance of the al-Aqsa Mosque, the double standards
to which Israel is held, false analogies to European colonialism,
the rise of antisemitism, the future of politics in Israel,
America’s role in preserving global order, the war in Ukraine,
and other topics.


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