A few weeks before the Hamas pogrom, Moynihan was reading Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by the brilliant Israeli-American journalist and historian Oren Kessler. So he called him to talk through the current conflict, its historical antecedents, and how Hamas’s murder spree has effected his family.

* RIP Tomer Shoham

* The nightmare scenario

* “This is good for Hamas”

* The “I don’t support it, but you have to understand…” argument

* The “occupation” is Tel Aviv and Haifa

* Nowhere to go / hostage trading

* On the media coverage

* The Arab Revolt of 1936

* The beginning of Arab nationalism, Jewish terrorism

* Writing while angry

* The Jewish Agency Fund

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