It Could Happen Here Arab Israeli Peace and New Visions for Gaza feat. Dana El Kurd
Dec 8, 2025
Dana El Kurd hosts Matan Kaminer, an anthropologist researching migration and Arab-Israeli normalization, and Ben Schuman-Stoler, founder of Kolo Media and co-creator of the Bad Cousins podcast. They delve into the Abraham Accords, unpacking how this diplomatic framework both clarifies and muddles the reality of Palestinian rights. The conversation highlights the stark critique of 'tolerance' rhetoric as coercive, the implications of normalization in Gulf states, and the necessity of linking Gaza's struggles to broader global issues like democracy and climate.
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GREAT Plan: Reconstruction Without Rights
- The GREAT plan frames Gaza as an economic zone while denying Palestinians political rights.
- The presentation explicitly incentivizes large-scale displacement and exclusion of Gazans.
Abraham As Political Frame
- The Abraham Accords use the figure of Abraham to recast geopolitical deals as religious kinship.
- That framing masks material goals like security, trade, and regional re-engineering.
Myth Masks Social Harms
- 'Abraham' operates both as progenitor of monotheism and a kinship myth of cousins.
- That myth enables positive optics while obscuring misogyny, xenophobia, and labor exploitation.