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Mohammed El-Kurd

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

I don't need, you know, confessions from the likes of Netanyahu to understand that his heart is full of hate.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

Well, you know, like May 15th, 1948 is commemorated every year as, you know, the anniversary of the Nakba. But I would even argue, and I think this is like a very popular idea, is that the Nakba did not begin or end in 1948. The 48th was rather, you know, a crystallization of the Zionist enterprise in Palestine. And what happened was that many Zionists

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

Well, you know, like May 15th, 1948 is commemorated every year as, you know, the anniversary of the Nakba. But I would even argue, and I think this is like a very popular idea, is that the Nakba did not begin or end in 1948. The 48th was rather, you know, a crystallization of the Zionist enterprise in Palestine. And what happened was that many Zionists

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

Well, you know, like May 15th, 1948 is commemorated every year as, you know, the anniversary of the Nakba. But I would even argue, and I think this is like a very popular idea, is that the Nakba did not begin or end in 1948. The 48th was rather, you know, a crystallization of the Zionist enterprise in Palestine. And what happened was that many Zionists

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

paramilitaries that, again, today merged and made the Israeli army, which calls itself the Israeli Defense Forces, even though they're literally always the aggressor, committed atrocities and massacres and You know, they destroyed over 500 villages. They killed over 15,000 people. They forced a very large portion, a majority of the Palestinian population to flee their homes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

paramilitaries that, again, today merged and made the Israeli army, which calls itself the Israeli Defense Forces, even though they're literally always the aggressor, committed atrocities and massacres and You know, they destroyed over 500 villages. They killed over 15,000 people. They forced a very large portion, a majority of the Palestinian population to flee their homes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

paramilitaries that, again, today merged and made the Israeli army, which calls itself the Israeli Defense Forces, even though they're literally always the aggressor, committed atrocities and massacres and You know, they destroyed over 500 villages. They killed over 15,000 people. They forced a very large portion, a majority of the Palestinian population to flee their homes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

And this was, you know, the near total destruction of Palestinian society that continues on to this day. We refer to it as the ongoing Nakba and you see it in Sheikh Jarrah, you see it in Silouan, you see it in Hebron, and all of these people losing their homes. And in many cases, time and time again, you know, I grew up and my grandmother told me the stories about the Nakba.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

And this was, you know, the near total destruction of Palestinian society that continues on to this day. We refer to it as the ongoing Nakba and you see it in Sheikh Jarrah, you see it in Silouan, you see it in Hebron, and all of these people losing their homes. And in many cases, time and time again, you know, I grew up and my grandmother told me the stories about the Nakba.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

And this was, you know, the near total destruction of Palestinian society that continues on to this day. We refer to it as the ongoing Nakba and you see it in Sheikh Jarrah, you see it in Silouan, you see it in Hebron, and all of these people losing their homes. And in many cases, time and time again, you know, I grew up and my grandmother told me the stories about the Nakba.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

She told me stories about her neighbors who were running away in a panic and they had mistaken a pillow for their offspring and they just took it with them and they realized later that they forgot their child and they came back for it. Many, many people who were separated from their... My grandmother herself, she lost her husband for a few months, for nine months.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

She told me stories about her neighbors who were running away in a panic and they had mistaken a pillow for their offspring and they just took it with them and they realized later that they forgot their child and they came back for it. Many, many people who were separated from their... My grandmother herself, she lost her husband for a few months, for nine months.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

She told me stories about her neighbors who were running away in a panic and they had mistaken a pillow for their offspring and they just took it with them and they realized later that they forgot their child and they came back for it. Many, many people who were separated from their... My grandmother herself, she lost her husband for a few months, for nine months.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

He was imprisoned by the Israelis. You know, she told me all of these stories and she wasn't just reminiscing about them. She was... letting me know that this is still happening and I didn't need to grow up that old to see it happening in my own front yard to see that expulsion happen in the same fashion she's talked about it but

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

He was imprisoned by the Israelis. You know, she told me all of these stories and she wasn't just reminiscing about them. She was... letting me know that this is still happening and I didn't need to grow up that old to see it happening in my own front yard to see that expulsion happen in the same fashion she's talked about it but

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

He was imprisoned by the Israelis. You know, she told me all of these stories and she wasn't just reminiscing about them. She was... letting me know that this is still happening and I didn't need to grow up that old to see it happening in my own front yard to see that expulsion happen in the same fashion she's talked about it but

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

you know, now they have replaced their artillery with the judiciary. They have replaced, you know, the slashing of the pregnant women's bellies in the Deir Yassin massacre with laws that say, you know, you're not legally allowed to be here. We're gonna kick you out of your home. And it's happening and it has happened in broad daylight.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

you know, now they have replaced their artillery with the judiciary. They have replaced, you know, the slashing of the pregnant women's bellies in the Deir Yassin massacre with laws that say, you know, you're not legally allowed to be here. We're gonna kick you out of your home. And it's happening and it has happened in broad daylight.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

you know, now they have replaced their artillery with the judiciary. They have replaced, you know, the slashing of the pregnant women's bellies in the Deir Yassin massacre with laws that say, you know, you're not legally allowed to be here. We're gonna kick you out of your home. And it's happening and it has happened in broad daylight.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

One piece of context for the listener who is not familiar with the Nakba, is the Balfour Declaration, which was a promise, quote unquote, promise made by the British to the Zionist movement in 1917. committing to the establishment, I'm quoting, I think, word for word, committing to the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, as if Palestine was, you know, the British to give away.