0:00 How Bob gave Glenn his start in podcasting

2:05 Is the Gaza War in Israel’s best interests …

11:46 … and if not, what should Israel have done in response to October 7?

18:06 How Hamas gained control of Gaza

26:53 Bob: Some in the Israeli government wouldn’t mind a wider war in the Middle East

36:46 What does “From the river to the sea” actually mean?

46:10 Bob: Every settlement in the West Bank is a war crime

54:20 The psychology of victimhood and retribution

1:00:37 The challenge of spiritual transformation

Recorded November 13, 2023

Links and Readings

Bob’s Substack, the Nonzero Newsletter

Brown University faculty’s call for a ceasefire

Glenn’s conversation with John McWhorter, “Thinking Through the Gaza War”

Bob’s Nonzero Newsletter piece, “The Truth about Hamas”

John Judis’s 2013 New Republic piece, “Clueless in Gaza”

John Judis and Ruy Texeira’s book, Where Have All the Democrats Gone?: The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes

Bob’s Nonzero Newsletter piece, “The ‘River to the Sea’ Rorschach Test”

Bob debates Eli Lake on Israel-Palestine

Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

Bob’s book, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

The documentary Disturbing the Peace

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