Luke Thomas

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1,281 appearances 7 recordings 6 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 18 Jun

Luke Thomas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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This has been happening, you know, for decades preceding that.

And so these conversations about where we go from here and what has happened, they need to start where the story starts.

And that precedes even my birth as well as yours.

So not many living people can really explain that, I guess.

Well, they tried.

They tried.

I mean, they tried in the 70s.

They tried in the 80s.

They tried in the 90s.

There have been academics who lived here.

Edward Said was a big one.

He was a professor at Columbia.

He wrote a very famous book, Orientalism.

This is hardly the only work that has been done to this capacity, but they have tried.

It is very interesting to me.

I have never seen the country take Palestinian sovereignty and Palestinian humanity as seriously as I thought that it ever needed to.

And nowhere has that been more true, I think, than in the last two years.

But it's not like the Palestinians haven't tried.

And they've made points too.

If they violently resist, of course, the world comes crashing down on them.

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