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#365 - "October 7th Was No Surprise": Einat Wilf on Palestinianism and the Gaza War

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JL;DR SUMMARY Dr. Einat Wilf, a former member of Israeli parliament and vocal advocate for pragmatic Zionism, discusses her evolving understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, particularly the impact of Palestinianism as an ideology. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Israeli Palestinian ConflictZionismPeace ProcessIsraeli PoliticsIdentity PoliticsMiddle East ConflictOctober 7thEinat WilfPalestinianismRefugee Issue

Places mentioned

Israel
"Over the years, she's become one of the loudest voices pushing back on what she sees as dangerous illusions, both in Israel and abroad, about the nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"While Einat Wilf shifted gradually away from the Israeli left, on October 7th, countless Israelis made a similar shift, only drastically. The brutal Palestinian attack not only took thousands of innocent lives, but also shattered the belief, for many, that peace is just a matter of compromise."
Hebron, Palestinian Territories
"I'm now reading Yardena Schwartz's book on Ghosts of the Holy Land about the Hebron massacre of 1929."
Bethlehem, Palestinian Territories
"The euphoria was because they finally saw the vision of return. You actually have videos of people saying we are returning. This is happening."
Ramallah, Central District, Israel
"And the ultimatum, again, it doesn't have to be just go and destroy buildings. It could be, uh, it could be about money. It could be about, you could make it about quite a few things, but you begin to have that clarity of vision of what we expect. And we, and I think we do need to understand that we're also at war in the West Bank."
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