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Mohammed El-Kurd

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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.

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.

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.

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

And there was this whole movement that called for colonization of Palestine. And there were different schools of thought in Zionism. You know, people like Zangwill said that this was a country without a people. and Palestinians who have existed there, who have cultivated the lands, who have had diverse cultural and religious and political practices, they were completely erased.

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

And there was this whole movement that called for colonization of Palestine. And there were different schools of thought in Zionism. You know, people like Zangwill said that this was a country without a people. and Palestinians who have existed there, who have cultivated the lands, who have had diverse cultural and religious and political practices, they were completely erased.

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

And there was this whole movement that called for colonization of Palestine. And there were different schools of thought in Zionism. You know, people like Zangwill said that this was a country without a people. and Palestinians who have existed there, who have cultivated the lands, who have had diverse cultural and religious and political practices, they were completely erased.

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

And other people like Jabotinsky, were a lot more explicit and a lot more honest and said that we need to fight the Palestinians because they love their land, much like the Red Indians love their lands. And he had a paper called The Ironwall Colonization of Palestine Must Go Forward. And all of these schools of thoughts were then shopping around for imperialist support. for their cause.

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

And other people like Jabotinsky, were a lot more explicit and a lot more honest and said that we need to fight the Palestinians because they love their land, much like the Red Indians love their lands. And he had a paper called The Ironwall Colonization of Palestine Must Go Forward. And all of these schools of thoughts were then shopping around for imperialist support. for their cause.

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

And other people like Jabotinsky, were a lot more explicit and a lot more honest and said that we need to fight the Palestinians because they love their land, much like the Red Indians love their lands. And he had a paper called The Ironwall Colonization of Palestine Must Go Forward. And all of these schools of thoughts were then shopping around for imperialist support. for their cause.

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

They tried to get support from the Ottoman Empire. They tried to get support from Germany. And this is in the 1800s. And then they got support from the United Kingdom. A great book to recommend is The Hundred Years War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi. That traces the Zionist movement, oftentimes in the Zionist's own words. And so today what we're seeing is a continuation.

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

They tried to get support from the Ottoman Empire. They tried to get support from Germany. And this is in the 1800s. And then they got support from the United Kingdom. A great book to recommend is The Hundred Years War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi. That traces the Zionist movement, oftentimes in the Zionist's own words. And so today what we're seeing is a continuation.

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

They tried to get support from the Ottoman Empire. They tried to get support from Germany. And this is in the 1800s. And then they got support from the United Kingdom. A great book to recommend is The Hundred Years War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi. That traces the Zionist movement, oftentimes in the Zionist's own words. And so today what we're seeing is a continuation.

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

And people like Jabotinsky who are profoundly and explicitly racist, who have called for genocide, who have called the Palestinians barbaric, who have said and done racist things. Jabotinsky also was the founder of the Irgun, one of the other militias that later merged to become the Israeli army.