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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

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.

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.

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

Second of all, if you're the president and you're telling that a group of people will not feel safe unless there's a different one, you are already feeding into their fifth column. They're like, you're Russian. You come from there. And there is a group of laws in the Russian constitution that says that Russia will protect its citizens everywhere in the world.

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

Second of all, if you're the president and you're telling that a group of people will not feel safe unless there's a different one, you are already feeding into their fifth column. They're like, you're Russian. You come from there. And there is a group of laws in the Russian constitution that says that Russia will protect its citizens everywhere in the world.

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

Second of all, if you're the president and you're telling that a group of people will not feel safe unless there's a different one, you are already feeding into their fifth column. They're like, you're Russian. You come from there. And there is a group of laws in the Russian constitution that says that Russia will protect its citizens everywhere in the world.

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

What happens if the president says like, oh, you're Russians. You're protected by your own country. You don't belong here. This is terrible.

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

What happens if the president says like, oh, you're Russians. You're protected by your own country. You don't belong here. This is terrible.

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

What happens if the president says like, oh, you're Russians. You're protected by your own country. You don't belong here. This is terrible.

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

But what would a Jewish person in Beverly Hills or in Brooklyn feel if he hears that? You are already telling people you need to be loyal to Israel. I mean, Israel is a foreign country. I am sorry, but Israel is a foreign country. Israel is a client country that we sponsor and it should actually be responsible and held accountable for what they do.

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

But what would a Jewish person in Beverly Hills or in Brooklyn feel if he hears that? You are already telling people you need to be loyal to Israel. I mean, Israel is a foreign country. I am sorry, but Israel is a foreign country. Israel is a client country that we sponsor and it should actually be responsible and held accountable for what they do.

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

But what would a Jewish person in Beverly Hills or in Brooklyn feel if he hears that? You are already telling people you need to be loyal to Israel. I mean, Israel is a foreign country. I am sorry, but Israel is a foreign country. Israel is a client country that we sponsor and it should actually be responsible and held accountable for what they do.

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

It is terrible, but like, I mean, the systemic annihilation of Jewish people under the Nazi, that is like a carefully engineered, thoughtful plan, it was terrible. It was kind of like the human ingenuity put into something that is very evil. But also, it is not just that happened.

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

It is terrible, but like, I mean, the systemic annihilation of Jewish people under the Nazi, that is like a carefully engineered, thoughtful plan, it was terrible. It was kind of like the human ingenuity put into something that is very evil. But also, it is not just that happened.

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

It is terrible, but like, I mean, the systemic annihilation of Jewish people under the Nazi, that is like a carefully engineered, thoughtful plan, it was terrible. It was kind of like the human ingenuity put into something that is very evil. But also, it is not just that happened.

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

We need to remember that Otto Frank, the father of Anna Frank, has his visa, refugee visa, rejected by the United States. There's a lot of people that were rejected by the United States, rejected by other European countries, and then they were pushed into Palestine.

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

We need to remember that Otto Frank, the father of Anna Frank, has his visa, refugee visa, rejected by the United States. There's a lot of people that were rejected by the United States, rejected by other European countries, and then they were pushed into Palestine.

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

We need to remember that Otto Frank, the father of Anna Frank, has his visa, refugee visa, rejected by the United States. There's a lot of people that were rejected by the United States, rejected by other European countries, and then they were pushed into Palestine.

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

So you have to put yourself between, like, and the Arabs, okay, we're sitting here, okay, come, and then, all right, you don't have a home or a country anymore. That kills you. I mean, you see, if I'm not an Arab, and you give me that kind of piece of terrible human trash, it's like, oh my God, that is terrible.

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

So you have to put yourself between, like, and the Arabs, okay, we're sitting here, okay, come, and then, all right, you don't have a home or a country anymore. That kills you. I mean, you see, if I'm not an Arab, and you give me that kind of piece of terrible human trash, it's like, oh my God, that is terrible.

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

So you have to put yourself between, like, and the Arabs, okay, we're sitting here, okay, come, and then, all right, you don't have a home or a country anymore. That kills you. I mean, you see, if I'm not an Arab, and you give me that kind of piece of terrible human trash, it's like, oh my God, that is terrible.