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Mohammed El-Kurd

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

But the fact of the matter is Palestine, Jerusalem particularly, had a diversity of religion. Druze, Jewish people. My grandmother continues to talk about... Well, she continued until she died. She continued to talk about her Jewish... neighbors when she was born in the old city and then her Jewish neighbors in Haifa.

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

But the fact of the matter is Palestine, Jerusalem particularly, had a diversity of religion. Druze, Jewish people. My grandmother continues to talk about... Well, she continued until she died. She continued to talk about her Jewish... neighbors when she was born in the old city and then her Jewish neighbors in Haifa.

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

We even had one Jewish member of our family, M. Sammy actually, who just also recently passed away. Jews were a part of Palestine and they spoke Hebrew, a different kind of Hebrew, but they spoke Hebrew. People really need to read The Hundred Years War on Palestine. It's really an excellent synopsis of the history.

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

We even had one Jewish member of our family, M. Sammy actually, who just also recently passed away. Jews were a part of Palestine and they spoke Hebrew, a different kind of Hebrew, but they spoke Hebrew. People really need to read The Hundred Years War on Palestine. It's really an excellent synopsis of the history.

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

We even had one Jewish member of our family, M. Sammy actually, who just also recently passed away. Jews were a part of Palestine and they spoke Hebrew, a different kind of Hebrew, but they spoke Hebrew. People really need to read The Hundred Years War on Palestine. It's really an excellent synopsis of the history.

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

But this whole idea that this is some kind of war between two religions is so misleading, because what's happening is a bunch of, frankly, European settlers with a certain political secular ideology came and relocated here and turned it into a religious conflict between people who have lived harmoniously together for decades before that.

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

But this whole idea that this is some kind of war between two religions is so misleading, because what's happening is a bunch of, frankly, European settlers with a certain political secular ideology came and relocated here and turned it into a religious conflict between people who have lived harmoniously together for decades before that.

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

But this whole idea that this is some kind of war between two religions is so misleading, because what's happening is a bunch of, frankly, European settlers with a certain political secular ideology came and relocated here and turned it into a religious conflict between people who have lived harmoniously together for decades before that.

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

And the whole idea, be it Christian Zionism or John Hagee or the calls for Jews to leave the United States and relocate in Israel, or recently, which we've heard about a long time ago, But recently an Israeli historian confirmed the fact that Israeli organizations were bombing Baghdad and bombing synagogues in Iraq to get Iraqi Jews to leave and come relocate in Israel, right?

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

And the whole idea, be it Christian Zionism or John Hagee or the calls for Jews to leave the United States and relocate in Israel, or recently, which we've heard about a long time ago, But recently an Israeli historian confirmed the fact that Israeli organizations were bombing Baghdad and bombing synagogues in Iraq to get Iraqi Jews to leave and come relocate in Israel, right?

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

And the whole idea, be it Christian Zionism or John Hagee or the calls for Jews to leave the United States and relocate in Israel, or recently, which we've heard about a long time ago, But recently an Israeli historian confirmed the fact that Israeli organizations were bombing Baghdad and bombing synagogues in Iraq to get Iraqi Jews to leave and come relocate in Israel, right?

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

All of this is manufactured. And again, none of this is a conspiracy theory. I know it sounds absurd. And, you know, anytime I like look at my life from a bird's eye view, I think what a circus. But it's real and it's... It's verifiable, call the fact checkers.

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

All of this is manufactured. And again, none of this is a conspiracy theory. I know it sounds absurd. And, you know, anytime I like look at my life from a bird's eye view, I think what a circus. But it's real and it's... It's verifiable, call the fact checkers.

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

All of this is manufactured. And again, none of this is a conspiracy theory. I know it sounds absurd. And, you know, anytime I like look at my life from a bird's eye view, I think what a circus. But it's real and it's... It's verifiable, call the fact checkers.

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

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So our small victory in the Israeli courts was that they would keep us in our homes until a land registry is completed. Basically, it means that they have to check who owned the land prior. And then they could decide if the land is ours or the land belongs to the Israeli settler organizations that are headquartered in the United States and enjoy a tax exempt status here.

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

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So our small victory in the Israeli courts was that they would keep us in our homes until a land registry is completed. Basically, it means that they have to check who owned the land prior. And then they could decide if the land is ours or the land belongs to the Israeli settler organizations that are headquartered in the United States and enjoy a tax exempt status here.

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

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So our small victory in the Israeli courts was that they would keep us in our homes until a land registry is completed. Basically, it means that they have to check who owned the land prior. And then they could decide if the land is ours or the land belongs to the Israeli settler organizations that are headquartered in the United States and enjoy a tax exempt status here.

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

And that sounds great on the surface, but then you look at Israeli law, you look at Israeli courts, you look at ownership and you see that, oh, Israelis refuse to authenticate or take into consideration any land ownership documents from the prior of the establishment of the state. So all of us in Jerusalem who have their taboo papers, their ownership papers from the Ottoman era,

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

And that sounds great on the surface, but then you look at Israeli law, you look at Israeli courts, you look at ownership and you see that, oh, Israelis refuse to authenticate or take into consideration any land ownership documents from the prior of the establishment of the state. So all of us in Jerusalem who have their taboo papers, their ownership papers from the Ottoman era,

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

And that sounds great on the surface, but then you look at Israeli law, you look at Israeli courts, you look at ownership and you see that, oh, Israelis refuse to authenticate or take into consideration any land ownership documents from the prior of the establishment of the state. So all of us in Jerusalem who have their taboo papers, their ownership papers from the Ottoman era,