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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: The Hamas War on Israel
Description: In this special episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate, Elan Journo, and Boaz Arad offer the Ayn Rand Institute’s response to the invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023 by Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist militant group based in the Gaza Strip.
Among the topics covered:
Facts about the Hamas invasion (timeline, casualties, ongoing threats);
Why the invasion was a predictable consequence of moral agnosticism about Hamas;
Why U.S. foreign policy is responsible for pressuring Israel to appease Hamas;
How Israel’s appeasement constitutes “the sanction of the victim”;
Why the moral corruption of our foreign policy is an application of the e...