3) The Palestinians and their Arab allies have missed numerous chances to establish a state for the Palestinians. Arab countries, with the full support of the Palestinian people, went to war against Israel three times (1948, 1967 and 1973) in an attempt to eliminate it and they lost all three times. After those wars, Israel was ready to allow the establishment of a Palestinian state but the Palestinians demonstrated that they preferred leaders who would wage war against Israel, Jews and the West. Israel made important concessions such as evacuating Gaza in 2005. What they got in return was daily rocket attacks for years and then the massacre of October 7. Now a majority of Israelis no longer support the idea of a state for the Palestinians under any circumstances and I don't blame them.3) Tell me why it is a good thing for the jewish people to have a state but not the Palestinian people. Do you oppose the creation of a palestinian state as the UN suggested ?
4) What do you think of the UN resolutions on the subject of a peace treaty / ceasefire / ?
4) I don't respect anything the UN says about Israel. It criticizes Israel far more than any other country despite the terrible human rights records of many other countries. It's solely up to Israel and Hamas to negotiate a settlement to the war. Hamas wants to keep fighting, so Israel fights back. It has no choice against an enemy like Hamas that is dedicated to the annihilation of Israel.
Sam Harris | 5 Myths about Israel and the War in Gaza
Transcript of podcast episode #351
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...the intentions of Hamas, as declared in their founding charter, and as they have reiterated numerous times since October 7th, are explicit: They aspire to commit an actual genocide. This is something they proudly claim to want to do. And the worst part is that they don’t ultimately care about their own survival. Members of Hamas, like jihadists everywhere, routinely chant, “We love death more than the Jews, or the infidels, or the Americans, love life.” While this might sound like posturing, and it may be posturing for any specific person who lacks real faith, in general, it is an honest expression of their religious worldview. They are a death cult. And Hamas is a death cult that happens to be very popular among Palestinians. Even though Hamas has engineered a situation in which to fight them effectively requires that Palestinian civilians also die.