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0:00 Steve’s books, The Hell of Good Intentions and The Israel Lobby
0:51 How Israel helped spawn Hezbollah
12:55 Why US leaders abet Israel’s self-destructive behavior
28:50 Netanyahu’s longstanding opposition to a Palestinian state
41:51 The Israeli policy that doomed Israel-Palestine relations
51:15 Steve’s writings on US foreign policy and the election

Discussed in Overtime:
Are Biden’s closest advisers crypto-neocons?
Steve’s view on China compared to Bob’s and John Mearsheimer’s.
Is US-China conflict inevitable?
Why haven’t the wars in Gaza and Ukraine spiraled out of control?

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Stephen Walt (Harvard University, Foreign Policy). Recorded August 26, 2024.

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