Gaza war

Rogan called the destruction in Gaza a horrific injustice regardless of whether it is labeled genocide.

“Let's say a horrific injustice against humanity”

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Rogan argues Israel's response to October 7 has generated significant anti-Israel sentiment in the United States.

“But the response, I think, has created a lot of... of anti-Israel sentiment in the United States”

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Rogan argues that children in Gaza bear no responsibility for the October 7 attack.

“Those kids that live in Gaza, they didn't do October 7th”

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Rogan describes Gaza's destruction as comparable to a nuclear strike carried out with conventional bombs.

“It looks like they dropped a nuke. They just did it slowly”

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Saad concedes to Rogan that bombing Gaza is creating a new generation of terrorists, while placing root blame on October 7.

“that would give them a hundred percent you're right that you are creating a new generation of terrorists”

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Saad cites John Spencer's analysis that the Gaza civilian-to-combatant death ratio compares favorably to similar conflicts.

“the ratio of civilian to fighters killed in the Gaza war is better than most other comparable situations”

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Saad judges that Israel conducted the Gaza war as well as possible given its objectives.

“I think that given what they were trying to achieve, they did the best that could possibly be”

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Von criticizes restrictions on food entering Gaza and the killing of journalists covering the war.

“They won't let any calories in there while they hunt down children. They killed every reporter who was trying to report on the war”

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Von argues that the Israeli government, as distinct from Israeli or Jewish people, has turned Gaza into a technological killing ground.

“but the Israeli government has turned Gaza into like a video game basically for killing people”

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Pfeiffer argues that large-scale Democratic votes against aid to Israel, including Nancy Pelosi's, would once have been unimaginable.

“the idea that Nancy Pelosi and a member of the House leadership would vote against aid to Israel would have been impossible to imagine”

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Pfeiffer says Israel and Gaza is the issue with the widest gap between the Democratic establishment and primary voters.

“it does represent the issue where there's the greatest distance between the party establishment and the voter”

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Sanders rejects the claim that criticizing the Netanyahu government's policies makes someone antisemitic.

“if you are critical of the horrific policies of the Netanyahu government, you are somehow an anti-Semite. And that is totally absurd”

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Sanders says he has concluded that Israel's campaign in Gaza is a genocidal attack.

“And what people, including myself, I think have concluded, this is a genocidal attack”

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Litman urges activists to welcome Democrats who have come late to opposing aid to Israel rather than punishing them.

“The point of persuasion is to get people to agree with you”

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Vietor advises progressive candidates to express more empathy for Israeli trauma from October 7th and Jewish fears of antisemitism.

“one thing that has gotten lost from the conversation is like any sense of empathy and a lot of these answers about the trauma that Israelis felt on October 7th”

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Shaffir says people he met while travelling distinguished between opposing Israel and opposing Jews.

“They really were like, we don't have any problem with Jews. But they would be very staunchly anti-Israel”

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