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#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

5 Apr 2024 28 published claims 2 attributable people
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belief 10evaluation 8uncertainty 5commitment 3observation 1prediction 1

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09 / belief

I think he would say that the presence of a story that you can tell yourself when you’re in a really shitty place, that you can go to a much better place by sacrificing your own life… just the fact the presence of that story is there is harmful.

“I think he would say that the presence of a story that you can tell yourself when you’re in a really shitty place, that you can go to a much better place by sacrificing your own life… just the fact the presence of that story is there is harmful.”
Speaker
Lex Fridman
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

10 / belief

” I think with the development of consciousness, humans thought that they are much more precious and important than the other animals because they have now intelligence.

“” I think with the development of consciousness, humans thought that they are much more precious and important than the other animals because they have now intelligence.”
Speaker
Bassem Youssef
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

18 / uncertainty

Everybody should be to blame for not taking in Jews after the Holocaust, but the reality of the situation, if we look at the religious slice of this, there’s 16, let’s say million Jews, and there’s, I don’t know how many Muslims, but 1.

“Everybody should be to blame for not taking in Jews after the Holocaust, but the reality of the situation, if we look at the religious slice of this, there’s 16, let’s say million Jews, and there’s, I don’t know how many Muslims, but 1.”
Speaker
Lex Fridman
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

19 / evaluation

When you don’t go fight, and when you have the lack of… That’s one of the things I love the United States about, is the fact that the army cannot really get power, but the power is actually in the military-industrial complex, which is a different issue.

“When you don’t go fight, and when you have the lack of… That’s one of the things I love the United States about, is the fact that the army cannot really get power, but the power is actually in the military-industrial complex, which is a different issue.”
Speaker
Bassem Youssef
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

21 / evaluation

They’re dying by themselves.” So the nitpicking of a certain narrative, religious narrative that is separate from the political context and what’s happening right now, it’s very unfair, because I can read… If you want to have a deep dive into religious texts, nobody will be happy.

“They’re dying by themselves.” So the nitpicking of a certain narrative, religious narrative that is separate from the political context and what’s happening right now, it’s very unfair, because I can read… If you want to have a deep dive into religious texts, nobody will be happy.”
Speaker
Bassem Youssef
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

22 / evaluation

” They tested in the field. So when human life is so cheap, and it is so indispensable, it gave me a visceral reaction because this has been actually the state of humanity.

“” They tested in the field. So when human life is so cheap, and it is so indispensable, it gave me a visceral reaction because this has been actually the state of humanity.”
Speaker
Bassem Youssef
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

23 / commitment

There is a book that I bought the rights to and I want to turn it into a movie, and I optioned the right for two years in March of last year, before October 7th, after October 7th, I bought the permanent, right, That book, it’s called the Muslim and the Jew, and it is written by an author called Ronen Steinke.

“There is a book that I bought the rights to and I want to turn it into a movie, and I optioned the right for two years in March of last year, before October 7th, after October 7th, I bought the permanent, right, That book, it’s called the Muslim and the Jew, and it is written by an author called Ronen Steinke.”
Speaker
Bassem Youssef
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

24 / evaluation

I don’t know what turned on in my head, but it’s stuff that I’ve been hearing all my life from the media, “Israel warns civilians before bombing them, and that’s okay,” but that’s not okay.

“I don’t know what turned on in my head, but it’s stuff that I’ve been hearing all my life from the media, “Israel warns civilians before bombing them, and that’s okay,” but that’s not okay.”
Speaker
Bassem Youssef
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

25 / evaluation

He was a Holocaust survivor, and he said, “I learned in Auschwitz when I was there in the Concentration Camp that in order for a dominant group of people to dehumanize another group, they need first, to dehumanize themselves.

“He was a Holocaust survivor, and he said, “I learned in Auschwitz when I was there in the Concentration Camp that in order for a dominant group of people to dehumanize another group, they need first, to dehumanize themselves.”
Speaker
Bassem Youssef
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

26 / prediction

There’s people who are using that platform for that. It’s not the majority because it’s not very interesting and exciting, but I think there might be a tipping point where there’s enough people that will be aware and maybe they would collectively do something in order to bring back the power to the small man.

“There’s people who are using that platform for that. It’s not the majority because it’s not very interesting and exciting, but I think there might be a tipping point where there’s enough people that will be aware and maybe they would collectively do something in order to bring back the power to the small man.”
Speaker
Bassem Youssef
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

27 / evaluation

That’s my favorite hobbies. It doesn’t matter now, who do you vote into power; they will not listen to you, they would listen to the people who paid them to be there.

“That’s my favorite hobbies. It doesn’t matter now, who do you vote into power; they will not listen to you, they would listen to the people who paid them to be there.”
Speaker
Bassem Youssef
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

28 / evaluation

He said, the reason why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is so chronic is one side have so much power and the other side have absolutely no power. And that’s what Obama said, he said, you have Israel, that basically don’t listen to us because they’re supported by people who are bigger than the president, bigger than administration.

“He said, the reason why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is so chronic is one side have so much power and the other side have absolutely no power. And that’s what Obama said, he said, you have Israel, that basically don’t listen to us because they’re supported by people who are bigger than the president, bigger than administration.”
Speaker
Bassem Youssef
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast
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