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Bassem Youssef

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

To answer this question, we need to understand how Israel thinks. There is an incredible speech given by Gideon Levy, the famous Israeli reporter in Haertz. And he describes a situation where he was in the West Bank and there was a checkpoint. And in that checkpoint, there was an ambulance with a Palestinian patient. And it was there sitting for an hour and a half, not moving.

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

To answer this question, we need to understand how Israel thinks. There is an incredible speech given by Gideon Levy, the famous Israeli reporter in Haertz. And he describes a situation where he was in the West Bank and there was a checkpoint. And in that checkpoint, there was an ambulance with a Palestinian patient. And it was there sitting for an hour and a half, not moving.

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

And then he went to talk to the soldiers, like, guys, why are you not letting them go? It's like, ah, let them go. And then he told them, imagine if he was your father. And the soldiers stood up. It's like, what? These are pigs. These are not humans.

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

And then he went to talk to the soldiers, like, guys, why are you not letting them go? It's like, ah, let them go. And then he told them, imagine if he was your father. And the soldiers stood up. It's like, what? These are pigs. These are not humans.

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

And then he went to talk to the soldiers, like, guys, why are you not letting them go? It's like, ah, let them go. And then he told them, imagine if he was your father. And the soldiers stood up. It's like, what? These are pigs. These are not humans.

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

So when you tell me what would you do if Israel would do, it really needs to, we need to ask how does Israel look at the Palestinian and view the Palestinians because they do look at them less than human. And there is an incredible talk by Mehor Meyer.

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

So when you tell me what would you do if Israel would do, it really needs to, we need to ask how does Israel look at the Palestinian and view the Palestinians because they do look at them less than human. And there is an incredible talk by Mehor Meyer.

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

So when you tell me what would you do if Israel would do, it really needs to, we need to ask how does Israel look at the Palestinian and view the Palestinians because they do look at them less than human. And there is an incredible talk by Mehor Meyer.

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

He was a Holocaust survivor and he said, I learned in Auschwitz when I was there in the concentration camp that in order for a group, a dominant group of people to dehumanize another group, they need first to dehumanize themselves. And Israel looks at Palestinians as lesser people, as lesser beings, as some people who are dispensable.

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

He was a Holocaust survivor and he said, I learned in Auschwitz when I was there in the concentration camp that in order for a group, a dominant group of people to dehumanize another group, they need first to dehumanize themselves. And Israel looks at Palestinians as lesser people, as lesser beings, as some people who are dispensable.

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

He was a Holocaust survivor and he said, I learned in Auschwitz when I was there in the concentration camp that in order for a group, a dominant group of people to dehumanize another group, they need first to dehumanize themselves. And Israel looks at Palestinians as lesser people, as lesser beings, as some people who are dispensable.

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

And the way that they treat them is that they don't really care about like, that's why the exchange rate thing. So for me, if I am Israel, it will be like, what would you do if you're the United States in the time of the Native Americans? They were killing people with the millions. When you dehumanize a group of people, you really don't care.

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

And the way that they treat them is that they don't really care about like, that's why the exchange rate thing. So for me, if I am Israel, it will be like, what would you do if you're the United States in the time of the Native Americans? They were killing people with the millions. When you dehumanize a group of people, you really don't care.

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

And the way that they treat them is that they don't really care about like, that's why the exchange rate thing. So for me, if I am Israel, it will be like, what would you do if you're the United States in the time of the Native Americans? They were killing people with the millions. When you dehumanize a group of people, you really don't care.

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

So if I was Israel, I would do exactly what Israel is doing right now because there's no one is holding me accountable. There's no one stopping me. And I can get whatever I want throughout my history through violence.

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

So if I was Israel, I would do exactly what Israel is doing right now because there's no one is holding me accountable. There's no one stopping me. And I can get whatever I want throughout my history through violence.

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

So if I was Israel, I would do exactly what Israel is doing right now because there's no one is holding me accountable. There's no one stopping me. And I can get whatever I want throughout my history through violence.

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

The people having power. But as much as like, of course, I mean the people in power, because when I speak about, even when I speak about America, I speak about people in power. When I speak about Egypt, I speak the people in power, because like, you can't really talk about the 100 million people in Egypt. Or the 11 million people in Israel.

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

The people having power. But as much as like, of course, I mean the people in power, because when I speak about, even when I speak about America, I speak about people in power. When I speak about Egypt, I speak the people in power, because like, you can't really talk about the 100 million people in Egypt. Or the 11 million people in Israel.

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

The people having power. But as much as like, of course, I mean the people in power, because when I speak about, even when I speak about America, I speak about people in power. When I speak about Egypt, I speak the people in power, because like, you can't really talk about the 100 million people in Egypt. Or the 11 million people in Israel.