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Bassem Youssef

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1347 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

So they wanted to appease the Arabs. Now, what happened to Dr. Helmy when that happened to him? He would go back to the ghetto And he would see the apartments next to him, the Jewish apartment become more and more and more flooded with people because they were moving Jews and pushing them and putting them together, pushing them to the side.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

And each flat, each apartment, instead of one family, it would have three, four, six, seven families. And he was there going at home and he looked he was there, this is where the people he grew up with, he lived with, and now he's seeing that kind of discrimination just because he's an Arab.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

And each flat, each apartment, instead of one family, it would have three, four, six, seven families. And he was there going at home and he looked he was there, this is where the people he grew up with, he lived with, and now he's seeing that kind of discrimination just because he's an Arab.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

And each flat, each apartment, instead of one family, it would have three, four, six, seven families. And he was there going at home and he looked he was there, this is where the people he grew up with, he lived with, and now he's seeing that kind of discrimination just because he's an Arab.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

And then he started to kind of like atone for, like because he felt responsible because he wasn't treated the same way, and he started to go and treat Jewish people in their homes because they couldn't go to hospitals. And then one family gave them his daughter. It's like, this is Anna, save her.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

And then he started to kind of like atone for, like because he felt responsible because he wasn't treated the same way, and he started to go and treat Jewish people in their homes because they couldn't go to hospitals. And then one family gave them his daughter. It's like, this is Anna, save her.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

And then he started to kind of like atone for, like because he felt responsible because he wasn't treated the same way, and he started to go and treat Jewish people in their homes because they couldn't go to hospitals. And then one family gave them his daughter. It's like, this is Anna, save her.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

He took her, pretended that she's his niece, put a hijab around her, taught her Arabic, called her Nadia, my daughter's name, by the way. And he hid her in plain sight for seven years in front of the Nazis as his nurse. It's an incredible story.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

He took her, pretended that she's his niece, put a hijab around her, taught her Arabic, called her Nadia, my daughter's name, by the way. And he hid her in plain sight for seven years in front of the Nazis as his nurse. It's an incredible story.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

He took her, pretended that she's his niece, put a hijab around her, taught her Arabic, called her Nadia, my daughter's name, by the way. And he hid her in plain sight for seven years in front of the Nazis as his nurse. It's an incredible story.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

And then not just that he went to prison, and then he went out and he formed with the Arab people that was in prison with him, a network that saves 300 Jews. See that kind of story? This is the Jews that were living in the Arab world. I'm not saying that the Jews living in the Arab world was living like an incredible life.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

And then not just that he went to prison, and then he went out and he formed with the Arab people that was in prison with him, a network that saves 300 Jews. See that kind of story? This is the Jews that were living in the Arab world. I'm not saying that the Jews living in the Arab world was living like an incredible life.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

And then not just that he went to prison, and then he went out and he formed with the Arab people that was in prison with him, a network that saves 300 Jews. See that kind of story? This is the Jews that were living in the Arab world. I'm not saying that the Jews living in the Arab world was living like an incredible life.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

Of course, as a kind of a minority, they did not have like the full power of their full advantages of the rule. That's normal. But we had this kind of a relationship. before Israel was erected in 1948. And then of course, everybody looked at Jews at that time as fifth column, and of course, the nationalistic regimes used that. And this is why what Biden said,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

Of course, as a kind of a minority, they did not have like the full power of their full advantages of the rule. That's normal. But we had this kind of a relationship. before Israel was erected in 1948. And then of course, everybody looked at Jews at that time as fifth column, and of course, the nationalistic regimes used that. And this is why what Biden said,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

Of course, as a kind of a minority, they did not have like the full power of their full advantages of the rule. That's normal. But we had this kind of a relationship. before Israel was erected in 1948. And then of course, everybody looked at Jews at that time as fifth column, and of course, the nationalistic regimes used that. And this is why what Biden said,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

was very dangerous when he said, if there is no Israel, no Jew in the world will feel safe. You are the leader of the free world. You are the president of the United States. Do you mean that you are telling me that the Jews in your country, in the United States of America are not safe? That is wrong on two levels.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

was very dangerous when he said, if there is no Israel, no Jew in the world will feel safe. You are the leader of the free world. You are the president of the United States. Do you mean that you are telling me that the Jews in your country, in the United States of America are not safe? That is wrong on two levels.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

was very dangerous when he said, if there is no Israel, no Jew in the world will feel safe. You are the leader of the free world. You are the president of the United States. Do you mean that you are telling me that the Jews in your country, in the United States of America are not safe? That is wrong on two levels.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

Number one, America historically and right now is more safe to Jews in the world than anybody. They are safer than the Jews in Israel. They never had pogroms or the Holocaust like you wrote. They live here a good life, not perfect life, but they are better.