Israel is still in the foundational phase of its settler colonial project. The people who came here and wanted to establish a Jewish state picked a place that was surrounded by Palestinians and Arabs. And they just picked a place, I think, that, that kind of project will be unstable in the long run.
Featuring Edo Konrad and Joshua Leifer on how Zionism's long-running contradictions led to the current political crisis in Israel.
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