Israel and Trump’s Humiliating Gaza Deals

Podcast audio:

In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo and Ben Bayer discuss the moral travesty of the Gaza deal and the intellectual bankruptcy it reveals in foreign policy thinking.

Among the topics covered:

• Why the Gaza deal will not bring peace but ensure further aggression by Hamas;
• How the lopsided hostage release deal is a win for Hamas;
• How the Gaza deal is short-sighted and self-sacrificial;
• How Trump’s “real estate” deal would reward Gazans for their aggression;
• How the Gaza deal reveals a blindness to the role of ideas in motivating aggression.

Recommended in this podcast are ARI’s “Resources on Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East,” Elan Journo’s book What Justice Demands, and Ben Bayer’s article “We Ignore the Unconditional Right to Self-Defense at Our Peril.”

The podcast was recorded on February 12, 2025, and released on February 14, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get you podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.