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Benjamin Netanyahu

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

They opposed it when we didn't have Judea and Samaria, the West Bank in our heads, and Gaza, and they opposed it after we have it. It doesn't make a difference. It's basically their persistent refusal to recognize a Jewish state in any boundaries, and I think their tragedy is that they've been

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

commandeered for a century by leadership that refused to compromise with the idea of Zionism, namely that the Jews deserve a state in this part of the world. The territorial dispute is something else. You have a territorial dispute if you say, okay, you're living on this side, we're living on that side, let's decide where the border is, and so That's not what the argument is.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

commandeered for a century by leadership that refused to compromise with the idea of Zionism, namely that the Jews deserve a state in this part of the world. The territorial dispute is something else. You have a territorial dispute if you say, okay, you're living on this side, we're living on that side, let's decide where the border is, and so That's not what the argument is.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

commandeered for a century by leadership that refused to compromise with the idea of Zionism, namely that the Jews deserve a state in this part of the world. The territorial dispute is something else. You have a territorial dispute if you say, okay, you're living on this side, we're living on that side, let's decide where the border is, and so That's not what the argument is.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

The Palestinian society, which is itself fragmented, but all the factions agree there shouldn't be a Jewish state anywhere, okay? They just disagree between Hamas that says, oh, well, you should have it, you know, we should get rid of it with terror, and the others who say, no, we should also use political means to dissolve it. So that is the problem.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

The Palestinian society, which is itself fragmented, but all the factions agree there shouldn't be a Jewish state anywhere, okay? They just disagree between Hamas that says, oh, well, you should have it, you know, we should get rid of it with terror, and the others who say, no, we should also use political means to dissolve it. So that is the problem.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

The Palestinian society, which is itself fragmented, but all the factions agree there shouldn't be a Jewish state anywhere, okay? They just disagree between Hamas that says, oh, well, you should have it, you know, we should get rid of it with terror, and the others who say, no, we should also use political means to dissolve it. So that is the problem.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

So even as part of a two-state solution, they're still against the idea? Well, they don't want a state next to Israel. They want a state instead of Israel. And they say, if we get a state, we'll use it as a springboard to destroy the smaller Israeli state, which is what happened when Israel unilaterally walked out of Gaza and effectively established a Hamas state there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

So even as part of a two-state solution, they're still against the idea? Well, they don't want a state next to Israel. They want a state instead of Israel. And they say, if we get a state, we'll use it as a springboard to destroy the smaller Israeli state, which is what happened when Israel unilaterally walked out of Gaza and effectively established a Hamas state there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

So even as part of a two-state solution, they're still against the idea? Well, they don't want a state next to Israel. They want a state instead of Israel. And they say, if we get a state, we'll use it as a springboard to destroy the smaller Israeli state, which is what happened when Israel unilaterally walked out of Gaza and effectively established a Hamas state there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

They didn't say, oh, good, now we have our own territory, our own state. Israel is no longer there. Let's build peace. Let's build economic projects. Let's enfranchise our people. No, they turned it basically into a terror bastion from which they fired 10,000 rockets into Israel.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

They didn't say, oh, good, now we have our own territory, our own state. Israel is no longer there. Let's build peace. Let's build economic projects. Let's enfranchise our people. No, they turned it basically into a terror bastion from which they fired 10,000 rockets into Israel.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

They didn't say, oh, good, now we have our own territory, our own state. Israel is no longer there. Let's build peace. Let's build economic projects. Let's enfranchise our people. No, they turned it basically into a terror bastion from which they fired 10,000 rockets into Israel.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

When Israel left Lebanon, you know, because we had terrorist attacks from there, then we had Lebanon taken over by Hezbollah, a terrorist organization that seeks to destroy Israel. And therefore, every time we just walked out, what we got was not peace. We didn't give, you know—

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

When Israel left Lebanon, you know, because we had terrorist attacks from there, then we had Lebanon taken over by Hezbollah, a terrorist organization that seeks to destroy Israel. And therefore, every time we just walked out, what we got was not peace. We didn't give, you know—

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

When Israel left Lebanon, you know, because we had terrorist attacks from there, then we had Lebanon taken over by Hezbollah, a terrorist organization that seeks to destroy Israel. And therefore, every time we just walked out, what we got was not peace. We didn't give, you know—

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

territory for peace we got territory for terror that's what we had and that's what would happen as long as the the reigning ideology says we don't want israel in any border so the the idea of uh two states assumes that you'd have on the other side a state that wants to live in peace and not one that will be overtaken by iran and its proxies in two seconds and become a base to destroy israel and therefore i think that most israelis today if you ask them uh

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

territory for peace we got territory for terror that's what we had and that's what would happen as long as the the reigning ideology says we don't want israel in any border so the the idea of uh two states assumes that you'd have on the other side a state that wants to live in peace and not one that will be overtaken by iran and its proxies in two seconds and become a base to destroy israel and therefore i think that most israelis today if you ask them uh

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

territory for peace we got territory for terror that's what we had and that's what would happen as long as the the reigning ideology says we don't want israel in any border so the the idea of uh two states assumes that you'd have on the other side a state that wants to live in peace and not one that will be overtaken by iran and its proxies in two seconds and become a base to destroy israel and therefore i think that most israelis today if you ask them uh

Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace

They're, you know, they'd say it's not going to work in that concept. So what do you do? What do you do with the Palestinians? Okay. They're still there. And I don't, unlike them, I don't want to throw them out. They're going to be living here and we're going to be living here in an area which is, by the way, just so understand, the area, the entire area of Palestine,