Barry Weiss
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Is the reason for that because we were putting sort of a Western gaze or a Western paradigm on a profoundly anti-Western environment?
Let's go deeper and be explicit. Do you mean like UNRWA when you're referring to that?
Let's go deeper and be explicit. Do you mean like UNRWA when you're referring to that?
Let's go deeper and be explicit. Do you mean like UNRWA when you're referring to that?
So the UN draws the borders in 1947, just to gloss the history. The Israelis accept the partition. The Palestinians reject it. A war... you know, of many Arab states begins. There have been tons of wars since then. I just want to, like, draw you out a little bit more when you're saying that there are international organizations, because you said a pretty radical thing, an important thing.
So the UN draws the borders in 1947, just to gloss the history. The Israelis accept the partition. The Palestinians reject it. A war... you know, of many Arab states begins. There have been tons of wars since then. I just want to, like, draw you out a little bit more when you're saying that there are international organizations, because you said a pretty radical thing, an important thing.
So the UN draws the borders in 1947, just to gloss the history. The Israelis accept the partition. The Palestinians reject it. A war... you know, of many Arab states begins. There have been tons of wars since then. I just want to, like, draw you out a little bit more when you're saying that there are international organizations, because you said a pretty radical thing, an important thing.
You're saying there are organizations that exist in the world to keep the conflict going and to keep Palestinians immiserated.
You're saying there are organizations that exist in the world to keep the conflict going and to keep Palestinians immiserated.
You're saying there are organizations that exist in the world to keep the conflict going and to keep Palestinians immiserated.
But there's no UN organization specifically dedicated to those refugees.
But there's no UN organization specifically dedicated to those refugees.
But there's no UN organization specifically dedicated to those refugees.
Draw that out a tiny bit more. I'm imagining some of the Columbia students that took over Hamilton Hall and were calling it a human rights violation that they didn't get their gluten-free crackers. They would be shocked to find out that they have some philosophical or political DNA with crusaders. So just a few more sentences on that one.
Draw that out a tiny bit more. I'm imagining some of the Columbia students that took over Hamilton Hall and were calling it a human rights violation that they didn't get their gluten-free crackers. They would be shocked to find out that they have some philosophical or political DNA with crusaders. So just a few more sentences on that one.
Draw that out a tiny bit more. I'm imagining some of the Columbia students that took over Hamilton Hall and were calling it a human rights violation that they didn't get their gluten-free crackers. They would be shocked to find out that they have some philosophical or political DNA with crusaders. So just a few more sentences on that one.
One of the things that I think is the result of people not knowing history is that they take kind of a very American rubric and slap it on to a faraway place that they couldn't locate on a map. And I think if you went to the average Columbia student that found themselves
One of the things that I think is the result of people not knowing history is that they take kind of a very American rubric and slap it on to a faraway place that they couldn't locate on a map. And I think if you went to the average Columbia student that found themselves
One of the things that I think is the result of people not knowing history is that they take kind of a very American rubric and slap it on to a faraway place that they couldn't locate on a map. And I think if you went to the average Columbia student that found themselves
cheering, or I'll be more generous, you know, standing up for Hamas, sorry, that's what they were doing, they would say that the reason that they're doing it is because, again, to put it very crudely, they see the conflict as sort of whites versus blacks. Palestinians are American blacks before the civil rights movement or maybe even further before that.