Dave Smith

And he goes, all you've left me with in this paragraph is the problem isn't Israel, the problem is them.

That's all you've said.

Okay.

I mean, by the way, I'm not nearly, there's an asymmetry as always is the case here.

Cause I'm not making the equal opposite point of Sam Harris.

Like I would never say like the problem has not, the problem in the middle East is only Israel and has nothing to do with radical Islam.

And obviously there's elements of all of these things that these are the dynamics of the region.

And yes, of course there's problems on all sides.

Um,

But to pretend that the military occupation has nothing to do with what's going on here, which has nothing to do with the issue, is absurd.

It's an absurd assertion that you could not defend in a debate.

And that's why you don't want to have the debate.

It's easy to write a paragraph that essentially just says, my side good, your side bad.

That's essentially what this says.

It's a lot tougher to have to come defend that idea.

Okay, next paragraph.

Okay, next paragraph.

Okay, next paragraph.

That might be the most anti intellectual sentence that's ever been written.

Rob, let's stop doing history.