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Bassem Youssef

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“Work that out, it is terrible, but like, I mean, what the systemic annihilation of Jewish people under the Nazi, that is like a carefully engineered, thoughtful, plan. It was terrible. It was like kind of like the human ingenuity put into something that is very evil But also, it is not just that happened. We need to remember that Otto Frank, the father of Anna Frank, has his visa, refugee visa, rejected by the United States. There's a lot of people that were rejected by the United States, rejected by other European countries, and then they were pushed into Palestine. So you have to put yourself between, like, under the Arabs, okay, we're sitting here, okay, come, and then, all right, you don't have a home or a country anymore. That kills you. I mean, you see, if I'm not an Arab,”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What would a Jewish person in Beverly Hills or in Brooklyn feel if he hears that? You are already telling people you need to be loyal to Israel. I mean, Israel is a foreign country. I am sorry, but Israel is a foreign country. Israel is a client country that we sponsor and it should actually be responsible and held accountable for what they do.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was very dangerous when he said if there's no Israel, no Jew in the world will feel safe. You are the leader of the free world. You are the presence of the United States. Do you mean that you are telling me that the Jews in your country, in the United States of America are not safe, that is wrong on two levels? Number one, America historically and right now is more safe to Jews in the world than anybody. They are safer than the Jews in Israel. They never had pilgrims or the Holocaust like Europe. They live here a good life, not perfect life, but they are better. Second of all, if you are the president and you're telling that a group of people will not feel safe unless there is a different one, you are already feeding into their fifth column. They're like, you're Russian. You come from there. And there is a group of laws in the Russian constitution that says that Russia will protect its citizens everywhere in the world. What happens if the president says like, oh, you're Russians, you're protected by one country. You don't belong here. This is terrible.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is the Jews that were living in the Arab world? I'm not saying that the Jews living in the airborne was living like an incredible life, of course, as La Kandu of a minority, they did not have the full power of their full advantages of the ruling. That's normal. We had this. Of a relationship. Israel was erected in 1948 And then, of course, everybody looked at Jews as fifth column. And of course, the nationalistic regimes used that. This is why what Biden said.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He started to kind of atone for because he felt responsible because he wasn't treated the same way and he started to go and treat Jewish people in their homes because they couldn't go to hospitals. And then one family gave them his daughter. Like, this is Anna. Save her. He took her, pretended that she's his niece, put a hijab around her, taught her Arabic, called her Nadia, my daughter's name, by the way. And he hid her in plain sight for seven years in front of the Nazis as his nurse. It's an incredible story. And then not just that he went to prison and then he went out and he formed with the Arab people that was in prison with him a network that saves 300 Jews. That kind of story”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And this is why 1934, 1935, the racial laws of Nuremberg. They had a name change. First, they were called anti-Semitic. Then they changed into anti-Jewish because also Arabs were Semitic. So they wanted to appease the Arabs. Now, what happened, Dr. Helmi, when that happened to him? He would go back to the ghetto. And he would see the apartments next to him, the Jewish apartment become more and more and more flooded with people because they were moving Jews and pushing them and putting them together. Pushing them to the side, and each flat, each apartment, instead of one family, it would have three, four, six, seven families. And he was there when it home, and he looked. He was there. This is where the people he grew up with, he lived with, and now he's seeing that kind of discrimination just because he was an Arab. And then he...”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And this is not a fiction story. This is actually like a nonfiction. It's written actually based on the documents of the Nazis and Gristo. He was in this hospital, and the Nazis came in and they killed and tortured and beat up the Jewish doctor. And they made him the head of his department. Then now he's surrounded by Nazi doctor. They didn't touch him because he was an Arab. There was kind of like a thing between Germany and the Arabs because they wanted to appease to them in order to have kind of a Grassroot base in the Arab world where he want to go next.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Went in droves to Berlin in the 1920s after the First World War in the Weimar Republic, and they became doctors and engineers and journalists for two reasons. Number one, it was their cheap, very cheap because of the inflation. And two, a lot of the Arab nationalists didn't want to send their kids to England or France because they were the occupiers. Dr. Henry was the hero of that. He's an Egyptian doctor. And that's why kind of personally kind of connected with him. And he went to medical school. Didn't find a place to live, so he lived in the Jewish ghetto, like many Arabs Didn't find the school to work, a hospital to work, and so he worked in a Jewish hospital So there was a lack of errors who lived with the first director of the Berlin Mosque with a Jewish convert who converted to Islam and he was a gay activist.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm going to shift gear a little bit. It's going to be a little bit of fun. There is a book that I bought the rights to, and I want to turn it into a movie. And I optioned the right for two years in Marshall last year, before October 7th. After October 7th, I bought the permanent right. That book is called Muslim and the It is written by an author called Ronnie Steinke. I read an article about this book in 2016, and I chased that book for rights for seven years. I didn't have that much money, but I wanted that book. And that book was translated into English called Anna and Dr. Helmy. And that book tells the incredible story under Nazi Germany Where Arabs”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Definitely, but what is the core of the problem here? Is it the Arab states using the suffering or actually the suffering itself? And the suffering comes from people being displaced. Their homes were taken away. There are 7 million Palestinians in diaspora. Seven millions. Seven million went out there and now they're living in Canada and America and Europe. They had homes there. They cannot go back to... 1.7 million people of the people in Gaza don't belong in Gaza, they were pushed from other places. The piecemeal thing of people are being, you know, In Germany”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Have very, very ideal solution, but you know, and I know, that Arab states don't really have the power. All of the powers are in the hands of Americans.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Those are like Hamas, again, not defending them, they went into October 7th. What was why did they do that? Like release our hostages, the people in prison. Because if you talk about people who were kidnapped, Israel kidnaps people every single day. And when they had the first exchange on November 4th, Israel leaves 400 people, three-quarters of them were women and children. Why are those people in prison? There's one in four kids. that are imprisoned that stay in solitary confinement, which is by international law a form of torture. And you're putting kids through that.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, before Hamas even got to control 2006, Gaza, there was a real sharon in 2000. And we all know what happened. And I'm sure Sharon kind of like had came up with this amazing policy of breaking people's kids' bones in the Intifada. So Hild Baraki was also like, I mean, which one is moderate? I mean, I think Hamas is a product of what happened. I mean, if there was no apartheid in South Africa, there would be no NFC. There will be no Nuslim and Aladdin. If there were no Nazis in Paris, there would be no French resistance. And I'm not saying that, and again, I don't want to be put in a position to defend Hamas or anybody because you know what that entails.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Some money to their leaders, does that make any difference? I mean, and also when you say Palestinian authority, which authority are you talking about, Hamas or the Palestinian Authority who has been kind of a domesticated kind of like a puppy for the Palestinian who basically have been an informant on their own people? This is the thing also that kind of really pissed me off when I was hearing the thing about these things. Like Hamas, Hamas, Hamas, Hamas. Like, we have Netanyahu on tape confessing that he supported Hamas, giving money in order to cause factions between the Palestinians. So it's just like, you just told me this. You just told me this. You just told me that in your support? It's like, but Hamas is like, what?”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's an interesting question. But, I mean, let's admit something the Arab regimes in the area have actually used the problem of Palestine in order to stay in power, in order to take getting excuses, like have this enemy and Israel. The Israeli government has used that too. And maybe the Palestinians. My problem when going into discussion is that the two sides are not equal, they're not equal in power, they're not equal in influence, and they're not equal in international supports especially by the United States. Palestinians, people who have made changes in history were the people with power, the people who would have the ability to change things. And the Palestinians cannot really change anything. What can they change”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know what happens when you hear so many numbers, numbers become numbers, and you become so desensitized. And this is why there's a difference between saying 13,000 Palestinian kiss datas like Mila Cohain, an Israeli baby ten month old, she was killed in her crib, and this is what we hear from CNN. We never hear a story about the Palestinian kid. That's why thank you for giving me the space, for saying the news of the Palestinian children that were killed just for four weeks. Because humans need context, they need depth, they need a 3D look at what they can look at. But if you just give them numbers, they don't mean anything.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Mailing it because What happened in the past four months the Palestinians have been microdosing on it for a very long time. Little by little, little by little. And we would shout every time when it gets too much and then we would shut down and then little by little. But this time it was hard. It was hard to see the blatant oppression. And the word said Maybe the Hamas Ministry of Health are giving us the bad numbers. Maybe it's just human shields. And I laugh. There's 13,000 babies killed. Does that mean that there are 13,000 military target hiding in their diapers? Because it is so, it doesn't make any sense to kill that baby. He's just like, oh, oops, it is out of our hands.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Rhetoric that is supported by action because look at what they're doing in the West Bank that you said they are cutting it Illegal settlement piecemealing it. So, how if you have an intention at all to give them anything, why do you keep doing this?”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, well, everybody's talking about the two stage collusion, but Israel has said many times on Netanyahu and Venice, there is going to be no state solutions. In the past, it's like, even Naftalibaneti came in on hard talk. It's like, yeah, maybe in the past we wanted two-state solutions, but like, look, every time we give them land, they kill us. So no state solutions. And they're openly saying it.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, maybe there was a certain point when the Israeli leaders were more Open to compromise, but I can say that because each time Israel gives back land, it has to be after some use of force. The 1973 war, the Intifad, the First and Second, the casualties in Gaza, they never give up land willingly and because of peace. Because if I have that much military and I can do whatever I want, Why would I give up anything? I have that much power. Why would America or China give everything if they're so powerful? And especially if they have this kind of open shit from the United States. So it is really about... What can push Israel to give up something? Because you are so much stronger than me. Could compel you to give up something? This is why the whole thing about trying to equalize Palestinians.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The whole idea about Arafat walked away from Oslo. That didn't happen, and there is an incredible video by, what his name Scorboro with Misha. And they were hosting her father, Brzezinski. He was the National Security Advisor. And Jos Carabo said, like, well, you know, like Arafat left the Oslo court and the Palestinians. And then Brzezinski said like, this is embarrassingly shallow. It's like, listen, what happened was there was a lot of catches on the Oslo court. It was very unfair to the Palestinians. So Arafat said, like, I agree, but I need to take it to the Arab capitals. And they went to Sharmesheikh. They came to Egypt. And Hilbarak went to there. And then Hubbarak left because there was election and he lost the Iraq came and it was destroyed. One of the reasons why people, it's kind of like,”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And there's nothing really that compels Israel to give up anything because at the end of the day, what is compromise? Compromise is like I give something, you give something. Israel's not giving anything. And they project that on you. So for example, how many times have we heard like, oh, Palestinians were giving four, five, six, seven, fifteen chances? And they said no to them. And yet when you read the history, that's not the case at all. Like, for example,”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Obama have kind of summarized this beautifully in his book. He said The reason why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is so chronic is one side hath so much power and the other side have absolutely no power. And that's the one Mori said. He said, Like, you have Israel that basically don't listen to us because they're supported by people who are bigger than the president, bigger than the administration. They know that they can. I mean, like Netanyahu was a cotton tape many times saying he's basically belittling Americans like, I, we control 80% of the population, we don't care. This has kind of like Nanichalan, kind of like we have them.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But this is what you do you tell people something and it happened with the Native Americans when they were here, when they went in and they wipe a whole tribe. And Jewish people, one of the minorities that were persecuted and had this used against them for a very long time. And it is terrible and it's terrifying that's been used again.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But you see, this happened to Jews before. Remember, Blood Libel? Where did the Blood Libel come from? It came from these rumors that Jews suck babies' blood. This is what they did to them. That's a very delicious baby.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because people are maybe a shot, but decombinated babies. There's like a knife blade that goes into the skin, the trachea, the flesh, the spine. Decapitated. You can just like, he's dead. I don't know. You go in, this is the hate, this is how much hate. And, you know, that's why you have.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What was very frustrating about the conversation is the gish galloping, the gish galloping, throwing, you see the distractions, you see what happens? What's the proportion response? Can Israel defend itself? Do you condemn Hamas? Does Israel have the right to exist, decapitated babies, raped women? Why don't the Arab countries take them? Why don't the Muslims kill Muslims? Look what happened in Yemen, in Syria, in Iraq. See how they kind of distract you? They throw little things at you so you don't know what to do or the honorwah, the UNN, anti-Semitic, October 7th, October 7th, October 7th. And then suddenly you are... Distracted and pulled into discussing all of these little things. And you're not discussing what's happening right now. It is basically stalling, giving them time to do what they do.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because we have kind of like a front row seat what's happening, we think we're in it, but we can't really grasp it. I mean, people's like, oh, we're just going to go in, get Hamas out, and we're going to get them back in. Also, what the people get back in. How do you think they would look at you? Have you What have you done Show in Egypt was all about propaganda. It was all about the use of words. Words are very important. The decapitated babies were not chosen. Randomly because you see it plants a certain image in your brain. Imagine if we're going in, what Abibi can do? It can smile, cry and poop. That's it. He's absolutely no threat. So when you tell people 40 dilapidated babies, they are so animalistic they didn't see the babies. Women raped. Course, he's an amil to do that, and they would go through that, and they would.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You have literally put them in a different universe than yours. Are behind in your air conditioned screens like pushing them, blowing up a university. It's amazing. But then you meet what you have done, that you meet the Frankenstein that you have created. And then people are like, oh, look what they did to us.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Developing all of this metric and surveillance and all of that stuff, and then you have something like the gospel that people have actually said that the gospel can actually create a target list using AI and give you a green yellow or a red go ahead. And now AI is not just disrupting the market. It's disrupting our humanity. And we became so comfortable killing people from afar, killing people with a push of the button. And now it is. It is like... Like dating apps, you know, when you swipe left and right, it's like, oh, right, it becomes so cheap. It's not like meeting someone. It's like, oh, it's a lot of fish in the sea. Same with AI. Boom. 500 people killed. Boom. They killed. It's so easy. It's so easy. It's so easy. And then it's so far removed from you. So when you put these people in this condition,”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, but the thing is that how we look at technology as the savior, as we talk about how AI disrupt will disrupt, will disrupt, will disrupt. And now if you talk about like going to the West Bank, the people in the West Bank walk and they don't see humans. They see people shouting them from towers or behind the screens or they have like biometrics that is developed by Basel system like that's done by HP or Google and Amazon who are like part of Project Nimbus and you see Indivision.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of a button, you know, a lot of people say terrorism, they killed you with a knife, killed one person with a knife, shot you. That's terrorism. But if you fly a $64 million F-16 and you drop up an A84 bomb that goes 16,000 dollars, that's not terrorism because it's remote. You're behind the screen. So what happened? What Israel is doing? It is removing itself. Like America too, drones. And then when you push someone to be in they always brag about bombing them to the Stone Ages. What happens when the screens and all of the obstacles that you have been put between you and those people that you have treated them this way when this is a breach and you come face to face, you will come face to face with what you have created.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So when you just like when human life is so cheap and it is so indispensable, it made me, it gave me a visual reaction because, you know, we as humans, this has been actually the state of humanity. Humanity has lived and survived and thrived by actually killing each other. But there was kind of like we were remotely removed from it. People in Greece didn't know what Alexander the Great was doing. He was killing a Pelagian. We call him the Great, but he was killing. He was conquering. He was invading. Julius Caesar, all over the greats. He was doing, but killing was difficult. Killing had to have some sort. You have to be with your enemy. Then you go back catapults, then cannons, then a little bit back. And then you're kind of like Sunday Shramoti. Now you're killing people behind the screen with a button with a”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is heartbreaking. As a doctor, there are five stages of trials. There is discovery, preclinical, clinical, and then market and then post-market evaluation by the FDA. The FDA value approval and then the FDA post-market. Five, just to take a pill. And you go in and he interviews people as like, where did you test this? They tested in the field.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Or, I don't know. I mean, you cannot really say like human shields, but they will say they were throwing rocks. There was a guy who went on Chris Rock and he said his son, a US citizen, was killed and it was like they were throwing rocks. So we killed him. Even when they were throwing rocks, you kill him. But the thing is, you see, this is how easy for them to get rid of Palestinians. I mean, I love, I had to say I prepared a little bit for the podcast because you are in tech. And I am ignorant in tech. There is a movie called The Lab. It is directed by an Israeli director called Utam Feldman. And he talks about how The military industry in Israel is very advanced. And what is really mind boggling is in that movie, he shows how the military tests its weapons in the field, in urban areas on Palestinians.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nihil Zied, February 14th, Valentine's Day killed a shot in the head while leaving school. February 11th, Muhammad Khattur, US citizens killed while being in a parked car. And Mued Sham's February 9th killed right in front of his home because a military car came reversing back to him and then somebody opened the door, shot him and leave. This is a daily life of people in the West Bank”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Amranajar is age 10 sitting next to his father, shot while he's sitting in a car next with father by the IDF soldiers. Muhammad Ziyad, 13 years old, March 3rd, shot in front of a UN school while sitting with his friends. Mohamed Renim, age 15, March 2nd, he shot while standing in front of his tourfront during a nitrate. February 23rd, Saeed Radal, he was killed by a drone fire. February 22nd, Fadus Liman killed while standing in front of the top of a Red Cross building.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There is really because he doesn't have the power but he lives under his government all he sees is the rockets or whatever but like he sees the reaction and he doesn't see what happened to those and as humans we are selfish we see what really affects us as humans and I cannot even imagine what it would be like to live as a Palestinian and I'm not even talk about Gaza because everybody talks about Gaza but let me give you an example and I'm not going to talk about the 12,000 kids killed in Gaza Let's talk about just like the four weeks in the West Bank March fourth”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it really depends if there are people in Arabs in Israel who are having a great life. And there are people, Arabs who are having a miserable life, but definitely people that living in Gaza or in the West Bank is kind of like on the lower tier of their living conditions. Now let's talk about the hate. What does that Palestinian see with whom the Israeli? The Palestinian Sea oppression limitation of movement limitation of freedom. And then when there's something happens, you see the full force coming in. Destroying their home, taking away members of his family. There would be absolutely no reason for him to love the others.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Depends on what is the living situation of each person. So in the Berlin Film Festival, just like a few couple of weeks ago, there was an Israeli and a Palestinian receiving an award together. And the Israeli director said, we're going to go back to Israel. He's going to go to the West Bank. He will have no rights. And I will have full living rights. These people managed to work together and be friends. And they have empathy to each other. The average Palest A very difficult question because is it the Palestinian and the diaspora or the Palestinian in Gaza or the diaspora in the West Bank or the one and the citizen as a citizen of Israel who still have less right than a Roman citizen of Israel than a Jew.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People have in power, but as much as I, of course, I mean the people of power, because when I speak about it, even when I speak about America, I speak about people in power. When I speak about Egypt, I speak the people about power. Because in countries you talk about the 100 million people in Egypt or the 11 million people in Israel, of course not. There are people who go in and they demonstrate against Netanyahu and they want him out of the government. But we have to admit that the Israeli society as a whole have moved quite a bit to the right and has been many extreme. And you know what happens when you go to the right or you go to the most extreme, the other person go to the most extreme. And extremism breeds extremism. So thank you for that clarification, but like I really meant with the people of power. When people criticize the United States for going in Iraq, of course I'm not criticizing citizens.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And the way that they treat them is that they don't really care about, like, that's why the exchange rate thing. So for me, if I am Israel, it will be like, what would you do if you're the United States in the time of the Native Americans? They were killing people with the millions. When you dehumanize a group of people, you really don't care. So if I was Israel, I would do exactly what Israel is doing right now because there's no one is holding me accountable. There's no one stopping me. And I can get whatever I want throughout my history through violence.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“These are not humans. So when you tell me what you would do if Israel would do, it really needs to, we need to ask how does Israel look at the Palestinians and view the Palestinians because they do look at them less than human. And there is an incredible talk by Mihor Meyer. He was a Holocaust survivor. And he said, I learned in Auschwitz when I was there in the concentration camp that in order for a dominant group of people to dehumanize another group, they need first to dehumanize themselves. And Israel looks at Palestinians as lesser people, as lesser beings, as some people who are dispensable.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Answer this question, we need to understand how Israel thinks. There is an incredible speech given by Gideon Levy at the famous Israeli reporter. And he describes a situation where he was in the West Bank and there was a checkpoint. And in that checkpoint, there was an ambulance with a Palestinian patient. And it was there sitting for an hour and a half not moving. And then he went to talk to the soldiers like guys. Why are you not letting them go? It's like, ah, let them go. And then he told them, imagine if he was your father. And the soldier stood up like, what? These are pigs.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Liar, he lied to us because I have to believe. This is the one thing it's like, it's also one of the things how it was said, it was stuff that I've been hearing, I don't know what turned on on my head, but it's stuff that I've been hearing all my life from the media. Israel warned civilians before bombing them. And that's okay, but that's not okay. Israel is trying to minimize the civilians but killing them anyway, and that's okay. But that's not okay. So it is kind of like the indoctrination that we've been hearing as if it is okay. And then suddenly it's not.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because there are lies, which is usually in the media, but there was the total disregard of humanity. You talk a lot about in your show about human suffering. And I felt that here the human suffering was not equal. I felt that's why I came up with this, what's the exchange rate today? What's the exchange rate today? There's, of course, it's terrible to see anybody die. But I feel that like, isn't our life not worth anything? Yeah, you.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Said, wait, I left Egypt. I came to the United States. I came to the land of the free where I can say anything I want. And yet I have limitation of what to say. I mean, I thought we left that shit behind. I mean, what's happening? And I understand the connection of how sensitive it is when you speak about Israel and all of the ready-made accusations. But as an Arab, as a Muslim, I don't react the same when you talk about Saudi Arabia or Iran or Egypt or any of them. It's like, hey, you wanted this some of these countries? I'll do that with you because I have strong opinions about what happened and I already been expressing them. But that's why I speak and there's a lot of Jewish people who come to my show and they understand that. They understand the separation. But that kind of a grouping of blackmailing people and saying and not saying what they have in their mind, it is that kind of like on one of the things that kind of like push.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, I wanted to say that because I felt that this is a family that I have never seen in my life. She actually hardly saw an uncle or two because they cannot leave. I said, I need to speak at least I do something for those extended family that I have never known, but also because... When PSM Morgan team called me a couple of times, he said, Okay, let's see what's going on in the show. And I just watch the stuff and the lies and the one-sided reporting that made my blood boil. And then I thought like, what am I afraid of? Am I afraid of, if I say something, I can lose my curious, like, wait a minute. But that was the reason why I left Egypt.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Multiple things. First of all Don't want to say it's just my wife's family because my wife's family has always been there, but this time it was different, the bombing, the attack, they usually one of those people that they're away with everything whatever happened in Gaza, they are always in safe places. But this time it seems that there was no place safe. And already we heard about like two or three of the cousins and the uncles already lost their home. So this was too much. So I wanted to say something for those people. because I know that one of the jokes that I made about like, oh, you know, it's Hassan, her cousin, he's a loser. He's a doctor. He's a doctor. And every time a hospital was bombed, we were worried about him.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I blacked out. I blacked out. And a lot of people ask me is the earpiece was that a bit when the earpiece kept falling. It's like, no, it was really falling off and it disconnected and I had to save it because I cannot see them. All I can hear, I can just hear them. And I could expect at any time, okay, Basam, thank you. I was fighting for every second to say words, to put stuff in there.”
2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source