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This is a pertinent clip from Sam Harris on the moral difference between Israel and her enemies. The moral difference comes down to understanding the answer to this question: what would each side do if they had the power to do it? TRANSCRIPT: The truth is that there is... show more
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This is from episode 2 of his Making Sense podcast titled "Why Don't I Criticize Israel?" published in 2014.

Yes I remember this. Poignant and reasoned elegantly. Sam Harris at his best.

Dumb analysis. Israel doesn't have the power to do whatever it wants.

Despite his recent cringe he’s right on this one

When Sam is right, he’s right. And says it with a conviction and clarity that is hard to refute.

& the comparison the left likes to make between Israel & apartheid South Africa is offensive. There was always a jewish presence in the area that had scores of colonizers. & the Europeans who came there saw the holocaust coming or came fleeing it or after it. Also, 2 state solution was rejected.

Sam Harris Vintage Edition is a treat.

How did Sam Harris go for 3 minutes without mentioning Trump

cannot say both: "What would the Jews do?...they can do more or less anything they want." & "Every time a Palestinian child dies, Israel edges ever closer to becoming an international pariah." Israel relies on the West. If unconstrained, we don't know what they would do.

I think Sam Harris makes a valid criticism of Hamas and the effect of religious indoctrination on Palestinians but the culpability to the extreme negative polarization seems to me not so one-sided as he suggests. Palestinians may be the more extreme side - more prone to irrational, impulsive, counterproductive acts of violence - but the feelings of in-group vs. out-group tribalism, revenge seeking and grudge holding that drive the negative polarization exist in varying degrees in all people(s) as has become clear in contemporary American society.
