PhD History Student Matt ”History Speaks” On The Middle East Conflict (6-19-24)

01:00 Matt's substack, https://historyspeaks.substack.com/ 03:00 Matt's Twitter, https://x.com/History__Speaks 09:00 Realism vs moralism in international conflict 21:00 The sources of our self-esteem 26:00 The seasons of a man's life 27:00 Matt is a lawyer (University of Chicago) 29:00 Why did Luke never marry? 31:00 Luke diagnosed with ADHD, Matt with obsessive-compulsive disorder 33:50 Enlightenment means respect for fact 42:00 The buffered identity vs the porous identity, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149512 53:00 The invention of racism as a moral category 57:00 Luke & Matt share their hero systems 1:00:00 That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=138784 1:02:50 Matt's activist Twitter feed, https://x.com/History__Speaks 1:05:00 How Matt has been changed by studying law 1:13:00 Matt's asked about serious thinkers who are Zionists, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Morris 1:18:00 JPOST: Experts: ICC, UN blamed Israel for a famine that never happened in Gaza - exclusive, https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-806735 1:26:00 Everything, including the category of civilian, is contingent 1:35:00 The “Good War”: Preparations for a War against Civilians, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155491 1:53:00 Human rights, https://www.lukeford.net/Dennis/indexp2a.html 2:00:00 AP: The war in Gaza has wiped out entire Palestinian families. AP documents 60 who lost dozens or more, https://apnews.com/article/gaza-palestinians-families-israel-war-deaths-a9f8bcfe402c17f1f78903eae67b7a7d 2:03:00 BBC: 'I’m calling from Israeli intelligence. We have the order to bomb. You have two hours', https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67327079 2:15:00 Black September, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September 2:20:00 No, we're not in a new cold war with China, https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/07/cold-war-cold-peace-united-states-china-xi-decoupling-trade/ 2:30:00 The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142846 2:37:00 Matt's first published scholarly article - did the Nazis plan world genocides? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17504902.2024.2326262 2:42:50 College protests for Palestine 2:45:00 Mearsheimer: ‘Israelis wouldn’t mind a general conflagration because that would facilitate ethnic cleansing.’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153903 2:48:00 Israeli morale has plunged over the past three months 2:52:00 Ze'ev Jabotinsky - serious Zionist thinker, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze'ev_Jabotinsky 2:55:00 Matt's substack, https://historyspeaks.substack.com/ 2:57:30 Dooovid joins, https://x.com/RebDoooovid 3:22:00 BBC: 'I’m calling from Israeli intelligence. We have the order to bomb. You have two hours', https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67327079 3:36:00 A Short History of International Humanitarian Law, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155471 4:13:00 Elliott Blatt joins, discusses Juneteenth 4:15:00 Why can't black pride and gay pride work together? 4:20:00 Human rights as a Marxist motte-and-bailey trick, https://quillbot.com/blog/motte-and-bailey-fallacy/ 4:29:00 The reorganization of priorities after a tough illness Complete transcript of the show: https://lukeford.net/blog/?page_id=155712