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Mohammed El-Kurd: belief

24 Jul 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

“I mean, I think all religious based states are a bad idea, all nation states are a bad idea, but whatever, if that’s what they want do, that’s what they want to do.”

— Mohammed El-Kurd

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Speaker
Mohammed El-Kurd
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
24 Jul 2023
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

Transcript context

…Where’s the front yard and where is the backyard? There are literally Jewish settlers, one of which from Long Island, in my literal front yard. And this is the case in hundreds if not thousands of Palestinian homes. No one is saying Jewish people shouldn’t exist or they shouldn’t have a state of their own. I mean, I think all religious based states are a bad idea, all nation states are a bad idea, but whatever, if that’s what they want do, that’s what they want to do. But that doesn’t mean that they are allowed or have a right to create and implement a system of Jewish supremacy at my expense. That’s not a crazy thing to say. That is not a controversial thing to say. You can have your state, just don’t kill anyone. Thank you, have a good day. That’s not a crazy thought to have. And seek and establish a symmetry of power in the courts, which is the current source of injustice.…

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