Lex Fridman Israel-Palestine Debate - My Comments
I recently heard a 4-hour conversation on the Lex Fridman podcast with three historians and one political commentator debating the Israel-Palestien conflict. It was so surprising and upsetting at times, that I wanted to start a blog and write about it. I don’t expect anybody to read these comments, so this is more for my own recollection of my thoughts. I wanted to start by addressing my thoughts towards Norm Finkelstein, as his approach to the conversation inspired me to write this in the first place. In comparing each of the debaters' argumentations, I think Norm Finkelstein stood out from the very beginning as the most factual and convincing. I say from the very beginning as my thoughts evolved as the conversation progressed. I was very impressed by Dr. Finkelstein’s great depth of knowledge pertaining to Israeli-Palestinian genres of literature, which makes sense given his dissertation on Zionism and his publicly held opinions towards the Israeli state and its behavior – un...