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JL;DR SUMMARY Allison Kaplan Sommer, Sara Hirschhorn, and Noah Efron delve into the complexities of defining genocide in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, debating the morality and implications of the current military actions in Gaza. 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 ConflictBezalel SmotrichGazaIsraeli ProtestsTwo State SolutionGenocideMilitary EthicsOrthodox RabbisPublic SentimentCultural Responses

Places mentioned

Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"Today is day 685, which are 96 weeks and 6 days of the captivity of still 50 hostages, living and dead, in Gaza."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"Welcome to the Promise Podcast, brought to you on TLV1, the voice of the city where this past Sunday on the evening ending the day of the general strike called by some, not all, of the groups of families of the hostages."
Arkhabil Suqutra, Yemen
"Just a few hours before, a missile was fired toward Tel Aviv from Yemen."
Ra'anana, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"With us today, broadcasting from the TLV1 satellite studio in Ra'anana, is a woman whose powerful prose, like a crowd of 400,000 people, is colorful, burbling with energy, dense with ideas, alive with humor and pathos, and always moving, moving, moving."
Jerusalem, Israel
"Now, also with us today from TLV1's second satellite studio in Jerusalem, a satellite of a satellite, as it were, like Atlas or Prometheus that orbit the ring around Saturn, is a woman who, like Haas' Square, which is a meeting point of the Art Museum, the main branch of the city, the National Opera House, and the District Court Building, brings to everything she does wisdom, beauty, passion, and a certain judiciousness."
Haifa, Haifa District, Israel
"Sarah Hirshhorn is senior researcher at the Comper Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism and Racism, and she is an instructor at the Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies at the University of Haifa."
Greece
"Thanks. It was technically just a long weekend vacation to a Greek island, but it just felt so magical and wonderful getting away."

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