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14 Mar 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

“I explained formally there is no finding and as you said, we won’t know for a number of years and I think there’s legitimate questions to be raised.”

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14 Mar 2024
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…Norm, can you let Mouin finish? Yeah. Well, the end of the story is you specifically asked whether I think Israel is committing genocide. I explained formally there is no finding and as you said, we won’t know for a number of years and I think there’s legitimate questions to be raised. In the Bosnia case, which I think all four of us would agree was clearly a case of genocide, the court determined- You mean by the Serbs? Yes. In the Bosnia case, the court determined that of all the evidence placed before them only Srebrenica qualified as genocide and all the other atrocities committed did not qualify as genocide. International law is a developing organism. I don’t know how the court is going to respond in this case, so I wouldn’t take it as a foregone conclusion how the court is going to respond, but- Norman has determined already. I have too, because you’re asking my personal opinion. Personal opinion is [inaudible 03:05:50].…

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