The Ezra Klein Show · 2026-07-07 · 86 min · 12,539 words

A Radical Vision for Israelis and Palestinians

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So I've been reluctant on the show. To talk too much about imagined solutions for the Israeli Palestinian conflict. I don't think any of the underlying conditions for political solution are present. Nineteen new settlements in the occupied West Bank. More than eighty one percent of Gaza's buildings are at least partially damaged. So many other Palestinian families are living with the threat of demolition.

Or not. Pre-solutionary space. And I worry about it as a form of escapism. It's more comfortable to debate. Two state models or one state imaginings rather than confront the realities of what is happening.

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