#425 - The Nightmare Scenario (w/ Oren Kessler)

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