Tal Becker

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470 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 8 Aug

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Call Me Back - with Dan Senor · Can we break the Israeli-Palestinian paralysis? - with Tal Becker · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

And when you have societies in that place, imagining moving forward is really difficult.

And I think I would start there.

I've spent a lot of time in the negotiating room with Palestinians.

And one of my core experiences that I felt there was that it's kind of a dialogue between two traumatized people who need therapy on a national scale.

And each of them have so many scars and have had their assumptions reinforced in certain ways.

And it's so difficult to do it.

So I want to start there.

A second place is just around the language of Palestinian statehood and the idea of a Palestinian state.

I think for a lot of Israelis after October 7th, that idea of a Palestinian state sounds the equivalent of creating the conditions for October 7th to happen again.

Even before that, we haven't figured out a way for that Palestinian state not to be a failed state or a terrorist state.

In other words, the Palestinian state would be a platform for continuing the conflict, not resolving it.

I think that's a core Israeli fear.

And something a little deeper, I think if you took Israeli Jews and kind of put them on a couch in a therapist's office,

and you said to them, you know, what needs to happen now is to see the emergence of a Palestinian state, they would kind of be triggered and say, are you implying somehow that October 7th is my responsibility?

That the reason why it happened was because of things that we did.

So the very conversation about what do we need to do falls into the place of all that trauma and pain around October 7th.

And here I don't diminish either Palestinian trauma and suffering or Israeli trauma and suffering.

But I think for a lot of Israelis, a distinction that is made in the West between kind of Hamas or Palestinian terrorist organizations who are committed to Israel's destruction, and the Palestinian civilian population who would just want to live in peace if only we could take away the capacities of those organizations.

I think for a lot of Israelis, that misunderstands how radicalized Palestinian society is.

And I think the experience of a lot of Israelis is if you look at Palestinian society as much as we might want it to be different, the dominant Palestinian narratives are either in a kind of Islamist sense that Israel is a kind of a front to Allah and an illegitimate entity because of that.

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