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