Academic Israel haters make up a fantasy world on popular "All-In" podcast @theallinpod

The All-In podcast is a popular video series hosted by four venture capitalists who generally talk about technology and the economy, but they deal with other topics as well. 

They did a live show recently where they interviewed two Israel haters, John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs. 

In a  venue like this, these academics can spout out any nonsense without any fear of the hosts knowing enough to push back. And the audience is treated to a one-sided narrative without realizing they are being played.

Both Sachs and Mearsheimer live in a world where there was no second intifada, where there have been no barrages of rockets for the past 15 years onto Israeli population areas, where there was no October 7,  and where Hamas barely exists. 

In that world, Sachs can start off by saying that he often speaks to ambassadors around the world and everyone agrees that Israel must be forced to allow a terror state to be created on the 1949 armistice lines and every Jewish holy spot must be under Palestinian control. This is, he assures the audience, "international law." Only the evil Israelis and the US are standing in the way of this wonderful world where Hamas and Islamic Jihad don't exist and Israel lives in peace with Palestinians who will give up on terror (just as they claim to have done in 1993). In Sachs' world, Iran doesn't exist either.

Later, with just as much assurance, he says Israel is guilty of genocide and that the ICJ will certainly rule that way.

Then Mearsheimer goes on his own fantasy journey where the only aggressor is Israel, which is doing everything it can to entrap the US into a war with Iran. The only solution, he says, is for the US and Iran to collude against this plot. Because both of them would benefit by opposing Israel, in Mearsheimer's world.

 Sure, Iran is on the cusp of nuclear weapons, but that is not a concern at all. Hezbollah is not a problem. The Houthis are not a problem. Only warmongering Israel. 

It doesn't appear to be a coincidence that they chose a podcast with people who aren't Middle East experts. Sachs has charged Israel with genocide on another podcast - that specializes in Bitcoin. 

Both of them claim not to hate Israel; on the contrary, they know what is best for Israel better than Israelis do. 

Sachs and Mearsheimer create a framework where there is not even an option to question the many false assumptions they make.  But they choose venues where no one who knows they are full of rubbish is available to push back. 

 

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