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953 - The Hills Have Eyes feat. Jasper Nathaniel (7/21/25)
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Journalist Jasper Nathaniel joins us to discuss his reporting on the West Bank and Israel’s second front in the war on Palestine. We look at the increasingly violent settler movement, Israel’s flagrant violation of international laws, the use of archaeological warfare in the region, and the constant ubiquitous violence that defines life for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. And on the domestic front, we have an update on the good professor Davidai and his relationship to the august institution Columbia University.
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Comments
NikolaDemitri8784
Yeah, the Bible is absolutely not a history textbook.. There was a kingdom of Judea, the longer lasting kingdom, and the kingdom of Israel, both of which were ancient Jewish kingdoms, the former of which outlasted the latter, but the narrative of the history in the Bible is absolutely not historically rigorous. What was or was not a thing in history really depends on what one is talking about, but most of the stories that people know best are legendary and/or mythological, and even would have been understood as such by ancient Rabbi (at least that’s my understanding per the last part, based on what I’ve heard from Jewish friends who know better than me). Thanks for the heads up on that BBC thing. Sounds interesting!
Conner
I know this is a very serious episode, but I can’t get over how much jasper sounds like Daniel Tosh.
Marcus Cassop Thompson
Just thought I'd share: there's a British secular historian of the old testament/ Hebrew bible Francesca Stavrakopoulou who did a series about the bible on BBC. The second episode on the topic of King David and the claimed United kingdom of Israel. She is very skeptical such a kingdom ever existed in the way biblical sources recount it. She's acknowledges this is her position and scholarship on much of the historisticity of that presented bible is very contested But it's a very interesting insight into about politicized history and archaeology is in Israel. Think you can find this docu on YouTube 'Bibles Burried Secrets: Did King David's Kingdom Ever Exist."
