Barry Weiss

As you were talking before, you said he foresaw a world where Jerusalem was just at the center of life for the Jewish people, meant so much to the Jewish people. The Jewish people have yearned for Jerusalem for 2,000 years. We are living during a time of just an unbelievable historical anomaly, where Jews have returned to political sovereignty. I'd love for you to talk a little bit about how

As you were talking before, you said he foresaw a world where Jerusalem was just at the center of life for the Jewish people, meant so much to the Jewish people. The Jewish people have yearned for Jerusalem for 2,000 years. We are living during a time of just an unbelievable historical anomaly, where Jews have returned to political sovereignty. I'd love for you to talk a little bit about how

As you were talking before, you said he foresaw a world where Jerusalem was just at the center of life for the Jewish people, meant so much to the Jewish people. The Jewish people have yearned for Jerusalem for 2,000 years. We are living during a time of just an unbelievable historical anomaly, where Jews have returned to political sovereignty. I'd love for you to talk a little bit about how

how, I would say, miraculous it is that we're alive for that. I don't know if that's too religious a word. And also, if you could reflect a little bit on what being powerless as a nation, as a people, for 2,000 years has done to the Jews.

how, I would say, miraculous it is that we're alive for that. I don't know if that's too religious a word. And also, if you could reflect a little bit on what being powerless as a nation, as a people, for 2,000 years has done to the Jews.

how, I would say, miraculous it is that we're alive for that. I don't know if that's too religious a word. And also, if you could reflect a little bit on what being powerless as a nation, as a people, for 2,000 years has done to the Jews.

Because that seems to me to be something quite exceptional, to sort of maintain our status as a people, devoid of land and devoid of political power, only to return to it.

Because that seems to me to be something quite exceptional, to sort of maintain our status as a people, devoid of land and devoid of political power, only to return to it.

Because that seems to me to be something quite exceptional, to sort of maintain our status as a people, devoid of land and devoid of political power, only to return to it.

Exploding genitals for one second.

Exploding genitals for one second.

Exploding genitals for one second.

And a tyrant, though.

And a tyrant, though.

And a tyrant, though.

But maybe let's talk about that a little, because it seems to me that so many of the paradigms that I grew up with, the two-state solution, land for peace, the idea that both the Israelis and the Palestinians fundamentally wanted the same thing, all of that is shattered or let's just say uncertain.

But maybe let's talk about that a little, because it seems to me that so many of the paradigms that I grew up with, the two-state solution, land for peace, the idea that both the Israelis and the Palestinians fundamentally wanted the same thing, all of that is shattered or let's just say uncertain.

But maybe let's talk about that a little, because it seems to me that so many of the paradigms that I grew up with, the two-state solution, land for peace, the idea that both the Israelis and the Palestinians fundamentally wanted the same thing, all of that is shattered or let's just say uncertain.

Is the reason for that because we were putting sort of a Western gaze or a Western paradigm on a profoundly anti-Western environment?

Is the reason for that because we were putting sort of a Western gaze or a Western paradigm on a profoundly anti-Western environment?