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A Year After October 7: What the Conflict Is Actually About

October 8, 2024

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Podcast audio:

In this episode of New Ideal, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss Western misconceptions around October 7 and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Among the topics covered:

Why the war is really between Israel and Iran;
How pragmatism effects the West’s inability to understand Iran;
How Palestinian grievances help pragmatists evade Iran’s ideology;
Why most Palestinian grievances are deliberately made up;
How October 7 demonstrates the power of philosophy.

Mentioned in this podcast are Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo book Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism and Elan Journo’s book What Justice Demands.

The podcast was recorded on October 4, 2024 and posted on October 7, 2024. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.

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Itamar Feldman

Itamar Feldman, B.S. in mathematics, is a participant in the Ayn Rand University Honors Program.

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