Niall Ferguson on Israel & the West, Geert Wilders & Islam, and Why He's No Longer an Atheist.

Описание: Matan hosts historian and author Niall Ferguson. They discuss a number of topics including the war in Israel - what Israel should do on its northern border against Hezbollah and in Gaza Strip; to what extent Israel is a part of Western civilization; and what is happening in the leading universities in the USA. Finally, Niail talks about the spiritual journey he and his wife - Ayaan Hirsi Ali - have gone through and chosen to live as people of faith.

Niall Ferguson is a Scottish-American historian, author, columnist, TV presenter, and academic. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Ferguson has written many books, such as “Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World" (2002), and "Civilization: The West and the Rest" (2011), which we discuss in the podcast.

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Chapters -

00:00 introduction
00:34 israel is part of the west?
03:16 is the west next?
06:47 the war in israel & the new cold war
10:01 European Politics & israel
13:15 Does Israel should strike first in the north?
16:45 What israel should do with Gaza the day after the war?
19:36 What can Non-Muslims do with Radical Islam?
24:23 Niall's thought's about Geert Wilders
26:17 The Hypocrisy towards Israel
27:29 Anti-Semitism in leading Universities
31:22 Is the Zionist movement part of Western colonialism?
34:43 Is science enough for us to establish a moral society?
38:22 A deep reason in favor of living a religious life
41:33 The Bible vs Shakespeare. Which book is more important to an educated person in the West?
42:40 Niall's message for Jews and Israeli's