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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: The Perpetual War on Israel: 1948-2023
Description: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the movements and regimes which have sought to destroy Israel since its founding seventy-five years ago.
Among the topics covered:
How to study history objectively;
How the conflict started, and the motives of the Arab countries that invaded Israel in 1948;
The rise of Pan-Arabism and the Six-Day War;
The rise of the Palestinian movement, including its debt to communist ideology and its terroristic tactics;
Why the Palestinian movement gained international sympathy;
The rise of the Islamist movement;
How a hostility to human life and freedom animated all t...