Episode · EconTalk · 2024-02-12

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Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (with Hillel Cohen)

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How far back should you go to understand the current moment in the relationship between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors and the attack of October 7? Some would say 2005, or 1967, or maybe 1948 when the State of Israel was founded.

Russ Roberts discussed Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929 by Hillel Cohen and Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929

   Hillel Cohen · at 0:16 · mentioned 4 times

   Discussed

   “in 2015 he published year zero of the Arab Israeli conflict 1929 which is our topic for today”

   Russ Roberts Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (with Hillel Cohen) 2024-02-12 Listen at 0:16

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   Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

   Yossi Klein Halevi · at 40:02

   Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi is a personal and intellectual exploration of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict presented through a series of letters addressed to an anonymous neighbor.

   Discussed

   “I interviewed yie Klein levy on the program and his book very much put the two different narratives at the center his book Letters to my Palestinian neighbor didn't get that big a reception in in the West Bank in in Gaza”

   Russ Roberts Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (with Hillel Cohen) 2024-02-12 Listen at 40:02

   Where to get it

   AmazonListen on Audible