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John Mearsheimer

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

And I think with the Hutus and the Tutsis, you had a similar situation.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

I think with the Turks and the Armenians during World War I, that was a genocide.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

But I have a rather narrow definition of what a genocide is, and I don't think there are many cases that qualify as a genocide.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

The Holocaust certainly does, okay?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

Now,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

What Hamas did doesn't even come close to what happened to European Jewry between, let's say, 1939 and 1945, although I'd date the start of the Holocaust to 1941 if we were looking at it closely.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

But let's just say 1939 when they invade Poland, from 1939 to 1945.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

What Amos did pales in comparison.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

It's hard to believe anybody would make that argument, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

Yes, a lot of Jews died, but hardly alive.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

Hardly any compared to the number that died, you know, at the hands of the Germans.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

I mean, just no parallel at all.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

And furthermore, Hamas was in no position to kill all of the Jews in the Middle East.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

Just not going to happen.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

Yes, but you don't see that withβ€”I mean, that's not what Hamas is doing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

I mean, I want to be very clear here.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

I am not justifying Hamas's killing of civilians, okay?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

Not for one second.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

But I'm just sayingβ€”and by the way, just to go to the Israelisβ€”

Lex Fridman Podcast
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

And what they're doing in Gaza, right, as I said to you before, I do believe that is a massacre.