Zionism & The Nakba | Yaron Brook Show
Channel: Yaron Brook
Date: 2024-04-01

00:00 Intro
01:10 Debate
05:55 Zionism
26:08 Post-Zionism
33:40 History Book Recommendation
34:10 The Nakba

Live Questions:
53:03 The land partitioned by the UN between jews and palestines, haven’t those lands had ownership before the Israel state? If it did, what about the property rights of those owners?
1:01:42 PragerU posted "civilization declines when men are emasculated". Is there any truth to this? Or perhaps civilization declines when masculinity is defined as being a "warrior". It's not like Hamas was "emasculated". They probably think of themselves as "macho".
1:04:56 Amazing how many friends I've lost since October 7. People I had been friendly with for decades just cut ties over my pro Israel stance. It makes me cynical. Not a shred of decency or an ounce of integrity in most people, if they're willing to cut you off so easily.
1:06:17 I heard a perspective on nietsche where in ancient Greece “the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must”, and philosophy, reason, logic and argument are degenerate concepts used by the weak to take power. Thoughts?
1:08:01 Was it a mistake to form Israel on this land? Would they have thrived more in S America? Seems driven by religion to be there vs purely for safety from persecution. By now you would thinking god would havee opined on whose land it belongs to
1:11:09 How do you deal with someone when reason and evidence won't penetrate there mind?
1:11:55 Is evil only successful early? It can only go as far as a blitzkrieg or an october 7? It can never sustain a winning campaign?
1:12:44 The one issue that comes up a lot, that actually has some validity, is the "settlements" issue and how Israel seems to tolerate bad behaviour by Israelis towards Arabs in the West Bank.
1:17:31 How would the average Palestinian-American react if Hamas completely surrendered?
1:18:01 How about a West Bank settlement short video? This is the subject that comes up a lot in discussions on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. I'm usually told that this is Israel at its "worst", racist, oppressive, eetc.
1:20:31 The challenge I always come to is the epistemology of emotionalism. I can site history and the moral arguments but it’s dismissed as “supporting genocides”. Hard to win an emotionalist crowd using reason and facts.
1:21:12 Some people think that the Zionists were given multiple possible places to found a home for the Jews, and they turned them down for religous reasons. I know of one that was turned down, Uganda. Are there other real examples?
1:22:10 Is New York City still the greatest city in the world? Or have you been to more impressive cities?
1:23:07 Would the world be better of today if Raegen had been a true free marketer and not forced the Plaza Accord. It's been argued that Regan was not a true free marketer but a an economic nationalist.
1:26:07 Please excuse me if I whine and moan, but could we have less microphone and more Yaron? 😉 That thing takes up too much space...Carry On!
1:26:53 What aspects of Christianity/altruism would you especially like to see challenged in fiction today, and can you give us some examples?
1:28:42 A speaker at my college basically argued international law makes war in Gaza “impossible” (ie illegal). Can international law be moral+practical?
1:29:47 Can you not reach what's in front of you, until you let go of what's behind you?
1:30:13 Thanks Yaron for the debate with Saif, I look forward to it. Q for now, can you explain the difference between antisemitism and antizionism?
1:34:19 I recently discovered Immanuel Kant wasn't even German, he was Scottish and just lived in Germany.
1:34:33 Is the conflict between good and evil? Or knowledge and ignorance?
1:35:11 What do you say to "They stole our land!"?
1:36:02 recently watched the episdoe with you and Mark Pellegrino. You mentioned maybe releasing the "Taped Confusion Papers" with Leonard Peikoff, have you?
1:36:40 Why are Rands ideas often confused with Nietzsche?
1:37:13 Do you like Noa Tishby? Would you have her on for an interview?
1:38:09 See pinned comment for timestamps of additional questions

1:52:29 Outro

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