Interview · moment 4 of 29
Judaism 101, Abraham, and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
from Ari Shaffir | The Tim Dillon Show #323 · #323
4 min
Guest
The conversation shifts to the basics of Judaism (heaven, no hell, Abraham as the first Jew), Jesus and who killed him, then into the danger of living in Israel, a story about touring the Gaza Strip on armored buses, and the intractable religious dimension of the conflict.
- Abraham was the first Jew, before that everybody was equal
- Jews don't believe in hell, only Purgatory
- Debate over who killed Jesus—Romans or Jews—resolved by Tim noting Jews don't get their hands dirty
- Visiting Israel creates kinship, same way Tim feels about Dublin being full of potatoes
- Israelis live on edge constantly because of the threat of bombing in the Middle East
- Prime minister told Tim the problem can't be negotiated because one side believes their God told them to kill the other
- Gaza Strip tours used to involve armed vehicles with barred windows as rocks were thrown at you
- Israel took Gaza from Jordan, who refused to take back their own refugees