Ta-Nehisi Coates

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122 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 29 Oct

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The Don Lemon Show · Hot Topics with Don Lemon | DID WALZ WIN? - October 2nd, 2024 · 2 Oct 2024 podcast

But if you were to read this book, you would be left wondering.

In this book, you would be left wondering, why does any of Israel exist?

What a horrific place, committing horrific acts on a daily basis.

So I think the question is central and key.

If Israel has a right to exist, and if your answer is no, then I guess the question becomes,

Why do the Palestinians have a right to exist?

Why do 20 different Muslim countries have a right to exist?

My answer is that no country in this world establishes its ability to exist through rights.

Countries establish their ability to exist through force, as America did.

And so I think this question of right to Israel does exist.

It's a fact.

The question of its right is not a question that I would be faced with with any other country.

It seems like an effort to topple the whole building of it.

So I come back to the question, and it's what I struggled with throughout this book.

There's nothing that offends me about a Jewish state.

I am offended by the idea of states built on ethnocracy, no matter where they are.

Muslim excluded.

I would not want a state where any group of people laid down their citizenship rights based on ethnicity.

The country of Israel is a state in which half the population exists on one tier of citizenship, and everybody else that's ruled by Israelis exists on another tier, including Palestinian Israeli citizens.

The only people that exist on that first tier

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