To celebrate hitting 50,000 subscribers, we decided to gather some of our favorite voices in geopolitics for this special episode of The Long Telegram. In this episode, Clay and Andrew are joined by Ben Wheeler, producer of the Philip DeFranco TikTok channel, and Ezra Brodey, a geopolitical analyst and prediction market thought leader.
With the largest story in geopolitics today, the Israel-Palestine conflict, continuing to unfold by the minute, emotions are running high. We wanted to sit down and discuss the conflict from an apolitical, hopefully somewhat objective point of view, and model how we can have productive conversations about difficult topics.
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00:00 - Pre-pod chatting
01:07 - Intro: Israel-Hamas conflict from a historical, political, and economic perspective
03:10 - Why did the 10/7 Hamas attack happen?
05:45 - Abraham Accords, Saudi-Israel normalization
8:25 - Palestinian polling, terrorism, and domestic politics
10:23 - What caused the Hamas attack?
16:46 - Iran's role in Israel-Hamas conflict
18:16 - Did Iranian funds unfrozen by the US play a role?
20:20 - Returning to causes for Hamas’ attack
25:00 - Can Israel and a free Palestine coexist peacefully?
39:12 - What’s the United States’ role in the conflict?
43:49 - Trivia Break: How densely populated is Gaza City?
46:47: Potential Israeli invasion of Gaza
48:50 - What’s the deal with Israeli settlements?
51:30 - Will a multi-front war break out in the region? Who will join?
1:01:05 - Are US Aircraft Carriers in danger? & US military capabilities
1:07:45 - Escalation in the Middle East conflict
1:11:55 - Israel’s domestic political situation & Iranian conflict
1:17:32 - Wrapping up the show + Avdiivka preview
1:19:26 - Post-pod bloopers ?
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