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Ezra Klein Doesn’t Understand Israel

JL;DR SUMMARY Haviv Rettig Gur critiques Ezra Klein's latest video on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, where Klein suggests that a single-state reality already exists between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. 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 ConflictIsraeli PoliticsOne State RealityMilitary OccupationEzra KleinMedia CritiqueAmerican DiscourseMoral AwakeningPalestinian RealitiesLebanese Issues

Places mentioned

Israel
"There is already a one-state reality stretching from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Seaand its time Americans wake up to it."
Palestinian Territories
"I expected to sympathize with a call not to look away, with an honest grappling with the fact that millions of Palestinians have lived under Israeli military rule for decades."
Lebanon
"facing Israelis, Palestinians, and Lebaneseand that even included a familiar sleight of hand: insisting that an issue dominating American discourse has somehow been ignored until his intervention."
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