Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo and Ben Bayer discuss the moral travesty of the Gaza deal and the intellectual bankruptcy it reveals in foreign policy thinking.
Among the topics covered:
· Why the Gaza deal will not bring peace but ensure further aggression by Hamas;
· How the lopsided hostage release deal is a win for Hamas;
· How the Gaza deal is short-sighted and self-sacrificial;
· How Trump’s “real estate” deal would reward Gazans for their aggression;
· How the Gaza deal reveals a blindness to the role of ideas in motivating aggression.
Recommended in this podcast are ARI’s “Resources on Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East," [newideal.aynrand.org/aris-resources-on-israel-palestine-and-the-middle-east/] Elan Journo’s book What Justice Demands [newideal.aynrand.org/free-read-the-introduction-of-what-justice-demands/], and Ben Bayer’s article “We Ignore the Unconditional Right to Self-Defense at Our Peril" [newideal.aynrand.org/we-ignore-the-unconditional-right-to-self-defense-at-our-peril/].
The podcast was recorded on February 12, 2025, and released on February 14, 2025.
0:00:00 Introduction
0:02:05 The Gaza deal ensuring further aggression
0:08:40 The hostage release deal as a win for Hamas
0:15:51 The Gaza deal as short-sighted and self-sacrificial
0:24:00 Trump’s “real estate” deal rewarding Gazans
0:33:54 Blindness to the role of ideas in motivating aggression
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo and Ben Bayer discuss the moral travesty of the Gaza deal and the intellectual bankruptcy it reveals in foreign policy thinking.
Among the topics covered:
· Why the Gaza deal will not bring peace but ensure further aggression by Hamas;
· How the lopsided hostage release deal is a win for Hamas;
· How the Gaza deal is short-sighted and self-sacrificial;
· How Trump’s “real estate” deal would reward Gazans for their aggression;
· How the Gaza deal reveals a blindness to the role of ideas in motivating aggression.
Recommended in this podcast are ARI’s “Resources on Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East," [newideal.aynrand.org/aris-resources-on-israel-palestine-and-the-middle-east/] Elan Journo’s book What Justice Demands [newideal.aynrand.org/free-read-the-introduction-of-what-justice-demands/], and Ben Bayer’s article “We Ignore the Unconditional Right to Self-Defense at Our Peril" [newideal.aynrand.org/we-ignore-the-unconditional-right-to-self-defense-at-our-peril/].
The podcast was recorded on February 12, 2025, and released on February 14, 2025.
0:00:00 Introduction
0:02:05 The Gaza deal ensuring further aggression
0:08:40 The hostage release deal as a win for Hamas
0:15:51 The Gaza deal as short-sighted and self-sacrificial
0:24:00 Trump’s “real estate” deal rewarding Gazans
0:33:54 Blindness to the role of ideas in motivating aggression
Subscribe to ARI’s YouTube channel to make sure you never miss a video:
youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AynRandInstitute
Download or stream free courses on Ayn Rand’s works and ideas with the Ayn Rand Institute app:
– App Store itunes.apple.com/us/app/ayn-rand-university/id1452535178?mt=8
– Google Play play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aynrandu
ARI is funded by donor contributions. You can support our work by becoming an ARI Member or making a one-time contribution: ari.aynrand.org/donate
Explore these ideas further! ARI's online publication, New Ideal, explores pressing cultural issues from the perspective of Ayn Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism: newideal.aynrand.org
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