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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: A Year After October 7: What the Conflict Is Actually About
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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.
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