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How to Avoid Talking About Israel-Palestine at Brunch
from #252 - The Summer Of No Opinions | The Tim Dillon Show · #252
4 min
Tim riffs on Netanyahu, Hamas, Mossad blackmail of politicians including Biden, and offers a satirical script for steering lunch conversations away from Israel-Palestine into food talk instead.
- Picking out nursery furniture while saying Zionism must kill babies is ironic, especially while trying to get pregnant.
- Netanyahu is taking Israel in a right-wing crazy direction, and people falsely think Hamas is like a theater group.
- Palestinians shouldn't live in those conditions, but the real people suffering are those at their first post-quarantine lunches dealing with this conversation.
- Tim demonstrates how to start a conversation about Israel-Palestine: acknowledge it's a mess, mention it's been going on forever, then pivot.
- The exit strategy: just say "I just want peace" and steer the conversation toward fish dip.
- There's probably a blackmail operation going on; Biden can't say anything because of his past, and most political leaders are blackmailed.
- Ilhan Omar thinks white guys should go into camps, so there's no political way out of anything.