The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column
#425 - The Nightmare Scenario (w/ Oren Kessler)
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#425 - The Nightmare Scenario (w/ Oren Kessler)

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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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The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column
Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition.