Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedMohammed El-Kurd: belief
24 Jul 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine
“Absolutely. I think if there was no occupation, there would be no violence. It’s quite obvious.”
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- Speaker
- Mohammed El-Kurd
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 24 Jul 2023
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…So the degree there’s violence, it’s about survival? Absolutely. I think if there was no occupation, there would be no violence. It’s quite obvious. And again, people understand this. We saw on Twitter in the recent month, all of these Israeli propagandists who had tweeted pictures of little girls with guns in Ukraine and women making bombs in Ukraine, and young men carrying their rifles in Ukraine, and praising them as heroes, post very similar pictures of Palestinians and calling them terrorists. It’s glaring the double standard, I don’t even need to linger on it. Well, the double standard is glaring, but I also think the glorification of violence is questionable. There’s a balance to be struck, of course, but……
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