Our “Holiday From History” Is Over | Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Simon Sebag Montefiore is one of the most important historians alive today. His many books, like "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar," "The Romanovs," and "Catherine the Great & Potemkin" are essential to understanding power, politics, revolution, dictatorships, and above all, human nature.
While most of Sebag Montefiore’s books are biographies of people, Jerusalem is a biography of a city-one that is “the house of the one God, the capital of two peoples, the temple of three religions, and she is the only city to exist twice-in heaven and on earth.” The book takes you through 3,000 years of Jerusalem’s history, from King David to Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu. It is a must-read. It has sold more than a million copies, and it has just been reissued in paperback.
With the ceasefire deal underway in Israel and with Donald Trump a few weeks into his second presidency, we could not think of a better person to talk to at this moment.
It may be a cliché to say, but it remains true-for most Jews around the world, October 7th triggered something deep within us, affecting our brain, nervous system, and perhaps even our very DNA. It profoundly altered the way we experience the world.
Maybe learn why you keep forcing people to take action against you.
@@jake8855 Maybe stop trying to justify the scum of humanity who hate Jews
@@jake8855 Nothing says moral superiority like justifying terrorism rather than condemning it. When Jews exist, it’s ‘forcing action against them,’ but when others attack Jews, it’s ‘understandable’? Your moral compass is broken.
@@jake8855 They elected terrorists. You are a terrorist sympathizer. Maybe learn about the history of Israel before you open your mouth.
@@jake8855 They elected terrorists. Maybe learn about the history of Israel before you open your mouth.
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it! Dear Westerners, do it before it's too late! Educate your children properly
@@Cameron_non-conformist about what ??
@Bertrum123 Did you actually watch the video? I'm suggesting not teaching about something in particular, but history in general
His book Jerusalem is a must to read. Highly recommend.
It’s not a great book. He completely omits the violent persecution Jews and Christians faced under Islamic rule.
@gunner23 not true. I just completed reading and almost every chapter provides examples of the violence towards Christianity, Jews. During the Crusades it was the other way around.
National populism over unelected bureaucrat-run globalism.
Mustache man aprooves that you know
Absolutely. All the hot air in the world is not going to obscure that distinction.
@@franciscomap75Hitler is under your bed rn
what good timing as I have literally just purchased his beautiful Folio Society hardback of 'Stalin the court of the Red Tzar'
The reason we thought it was the End of History, because we believed man/woman’s nature is basically good, when in reality it is basically bad, eg there are people like Putin, who are essentially mafia style bullies, willing to commit evil acts to get their way (eg, Iran, China, almost all of Africa, North Korea, etc). “But,” you would say, “That’s only a few individuals. You said, ‘Most people’s nature is bad.” I would then ask, “Who blindly follows these few horrid leaders and how many are they?” If we were basically good, then the world would naturally gravitate to “Love your neighbor as yourself” and the End of History would be in reach. Sadly, that is not the world we live in and, likewise, we have to prepare for tyrants and the only way is through greater strength, not a better philosophy alone.
You mean a Russian leader defending his country against NATO aggression is evil? What does that make the US effort to get rid of any regime that won't do as we tell them?
I'd say nature of man is basically stupid and gullible.
Cute but your remarks just demonstrated that you too are blindly following a narrative fed to you by western msm. Perhaps it's not that Man's nature is bad but it's stupid?
Why were intellectuals so wrong? Because the more time you spend in the education system, the stupider you get.
And why does that happen? It is not self evident. Clue: examine the fundamental IDEAS that are taught today to the ideas taught during the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment
@@TheHerrUlf Uhm...education during the age of enlightenment was of course but given to a small elite
I remember the moment I saw a clip of Angela Davis saying, regarding October 7 and the conflict, "It's like a litmus test of morality which side you are on." My blood ran absolutely cold.
She was correct though..which side your are on shows your morality. Are you with blind hatred and a death cult or are you with reason, rationality and an ability to love. I dare say what side you pick seeing Oct 7 IS a test of morality. Of course in Angela's case we didn't need Oct 7 to know she picks the hatred and deathcult. We have known that for many many years
I always find all the hate-watchers so strange. Are you all paid to watch videos you don't like? Or do you just like to torture yourselves?
It's useful to know what other people that share the world with us think, even if we don't entirely agree with them. Watching videos is not exclusevely about entertainment or confirmation bias. Pathetic that a grown adult as you cannot comprehend that concept.
@@buzinaocaraer…pot calling the kettle black! Have you heard yourself?
@@whydontyou2016 That again makes no sense...I am beginning to think I SHOULD use that word I actually didn't use yet you claimed I did
@@whydontyou2016Keep your enemies closer.
How is having a border a flaw?
Irony detector on, pls.
Andrew Klavan from the Daily Wire said that growing up, his father referred to their generation as the "holiday Jews", since they were on vacation from history.
Holiday from History for those privileged elites/academics/bankers/corporatists/neocons who did not fight in any of the many wars and conflicts they created over the past 75 years. The rest of us experienced actual history and not bogus "holidays."
What is this guy on about? The "70 year peace"? Where has he been living? Has he forgotten - Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afganistan? even the cold war?
I live in Israel and there is yet to be a decade without a war or serious conflict... Is he talking about American Jews who weren't conscripted? I'm really struggling here but I think his approach is extremely ignorant and/or self-centered....
I could not agree with you more! As a historian, all I could think was, “What is this rubbish?” He seems completely oblivious to the macro-historic themes of empire.
Not to mention the wars closer to home..in Europe..like the falling apart of Yugoslavia and resulting local war, Kosovo in which NATO was one of the parties
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“Nobody noticed what was going on [in our universities, etc.]”
Bruh I’ll tell you who noticed: the conservatives that you ran off the campuses back in the 90s.
Actually, that started in the 1960s with my generation. The students would try to get conservative professors fired by protest in the name of free speech.
The word liberal comes from līberālis (liberty, freedom). “World order“ is the opposite of this.
Why would we think that small groups of transnational bureaucrats would make anyone more free, or handle 8 billion people‘s separate interests more effectively than local governments, or better yet, no government absent actual harm.
The things human beings have achieved, from an organizational point of view, are too complex to continue running without some sort of government. Any agency created for a specific purpose is a way to streamline action and communication, essentially a division of labor. You can criticize current governments, agencies, the ways that any of these are run, but to suggest that countries can continue to function at today’s level with only local government or no government at all is a very naive and uneducated take. Take for example the coordination it takes to create a global flight system. That is not something thousands of local governments all over the world can coordinate, not to mention how much more expensive that would be if they tried
@ It’s easy to assume that complex systems require management like government in order to coordinate. But the opposite is often true.
Much like murmurations of birds or fish, individuals interacting with each other can seem to be planned, but they’re not (at least not singularly at a high level). The planning is distributed amongst millions or billions of participants. As you may be aware, the concept is called Emergent Order.
Centralizing control to smaller and more distant groups of governors, increasingly invites authoritarian inefficiencies and abuse. Even if such limited and remote governing bodies are comprised entirely of geniuses and saints, they’d suffer from what FA Hayek would call the Knowledge Problem. They don’t know as much as the billions of participants do, distributed amongst themselves.
This is not an argument against the rule of law. Ethical law stems from a need to mitigate harm. When there is no harm (voluntary trade, for example), no external law is required, or ethical.
Ever more centralized governing structures inevitably become ever more abusive and stultifying.
@@laurenc8387I posted a response. It was deleted. Not sure why. I guess my response will have to be imagined as an exercise for the reader.
@@laurenc8387 It’s easy to assume that complex systems require management like government in order to coordinate. But the opposite is often true.
Much like murmurations of birds or fish, individuals interacting with each other can seem to be planned, but they’re not (at least not singularly at a high level). The planning is distributed amongst millions or billions of participants. As you may be aware, the concept is called Emergent Order.
Centralizing control to smaller and more distant groups of governors, increasingly invites authoritarian inefficiencies and abuse. Even if such limited and remote governing bodies are comprised entirely of geniuses and saints, they’d suffer from what FA Hayek would call the Knowledge Problem. They don’t know as much as the billions of participants do, distributed amongst themselves.
This is not an argument against the rule of law. Ethical law stems from a need to mitigate harm. When there is no harm (voluntary trade, for example), no external law is required, or ethical.
Ever more centralized governing structures inevitably become ever more abusive and stultifying.
@@laurenc8387 Are they naive and uneducated? Or are you unimaginative, arrogant, and rude?
4:00 No, it's not the "Right and Left." It's the Left.
I wonder how many citizens in Japan (for example) wake up everyday bitching about their country and finding 100’s of like minded people. America is loathed from within and I lay it at the feet of identity politics, nothing is as strong as blood and this is why America will never be the great nation it once was.
Mass immigration is a cancer in the heart of every society, social harmony is built on ethnic homogeneity
Abandoning Hashem - from the Jewish perspective. And God - from the non Jewish one. That is the root. The discussion is being held inside a synagogue, the crux of the matter is all around you. Mind cannot unlock the essence of spirit.
Sadly, our democracy has been sold off.
Democracy died during WW2 when it wasn't up to the task of total or perpetual war making and had to be replaced by the rule of an elite.
Revolution has been done before, time to take up arms is nearing.
you only post full episodes on Spotify? what do you have against UA-cam? even if you just posted the audio here I would be happy 🙏
can be fully heard on the “Honestly “ podcast
Simon pontificating about how few young men would want to fight for their country today of course has done absolutely zero fighting for anything himself.
Dude's lived a privileged live indeed
@@NickRozanov-f7t He'd fight for Israel. Never for US.
Intellectuals never have to suffer the consequences of their actions. That's why they want those jobs.
His brother is great too. He has a wonderful book on Dunkirk
Great post! Can anyone suggest where to find a list of those professors he’s referencing?
Follow Qatar money...
unfortunately no, however remember the case of the disturbing text messages of 4 Columbia deans: Josef Sorett, Susan Chang-Kim, Cristen Kromm, and Matthew Patashnick (May 31, 2024). They were eventually put on leave (June 22, 2024) and at least 3 resigned (Aug.).
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"Liberal democracy"....uhhhhhh....no thank you, i will choose the conservative republic for my liberal sensibilities
The concept of "liberal democracy" is centuries old, comes from Europe (where "liberal" means economically liberal, i.e. libertarian-leaning), and has nothing at all to do with American so-called "liberals". Your protest is like decrying "The Revolution of the Atom" for being pinko propaganda ;-)
Suppose that the opposite of liberalism wasn’t conservatism but authoritarianism, would you say the same?
I have a theory, I love both of these people...but...anyone who wears silly socks should be seriously questioned. It's a thing with me. I dunno know, it just rankles.
The holiday is over for Israel
Israel's never had a holiday from bullshit.
What holiday? The "holiday" of over 1100 terrorist attacks between 2000 and oct 6 2023 killing over 1500 people? That holdiay? The holiday of hundreds of rockets being fired at their land and cities every year? That holiday? Or are you talking about the kind of holiday Australlians like you have experienced for the past 80 years? The kind of "holiday" Israel can only dream of.
And for the jewish people. Like we call our selfs עם ישראל
😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡 Israel is about to annex the West Bank and Gaza. “Palestinians” lost.
@@Muskeljudentum by dragging in USA? should avoid their shit & keep it out of USA
Get Jordan Peterson on He will nail the phycological crisis
Oh pu-lease get away with that mediocre "intellectual " hero for the stupidest western generation mankind produced so far
Liberalism, social and economic, is the God that failed.
The Woke ain't liberal.
@@onceamoth The Woke tend to be social liberals.
@@georgeash4008 That's a perversion of the word.
Woke is explicitly anti-liberal.
75 year peace????
Vietnam, Desert Storm, Korean War, and War on Terror were very tiny and insignificant conflicts that did very little to shape the world.
WW2 was the last true geopolitWar. And philosophical war.
The safety and prosperity of residents of the Western world and most of its allies since WWII is an unprecedented anomalous 80 years in American history.
@@crashtestdummy2337Libya Ukraine
@@crashtestdummy2337Yes. The millions dead in other places were tiny and insignificant for the obese americans watching them on TV.
Muslims have been at war since 680 BC.😮😮😮
A 14th century scholar used the word psychology.
Interesting.
Who was it?
@nickgoldring1446 Ibn Hal Doon (phonetic). Quoted by Sebag. So it's a lie. Put Freud in any where.
@RJ1164
Thank you, I will pay closer attention next time...
@@RJ1164 Would that be the same guy who invented flying?
IMO this guy is full of nonsense
Consider his ideas. To dismiss is to close the mind. If you disagree, state your reasons. The dialogue matters.
@@diannemcbeth7428 I did consider his ideas..and came to the conclusion he is full of nonsense. I do not see the point in fleshing out my view because half the time on this channel I get shadowbanned and that makes it a waste of my time to put in the effort. "dialogue matters" indeed but it requieres one is heard/read.
But here is one thing right at the beginning..the idea that these socalled 80 years of peace ( btw ignoring several wars even if you'd just be talking europe) are unprecedented in history is of course factually incorrect.
If he considers past 80 years peace in spite of the cold war, the conflict in Kosovo, Algerian war which involved France, First Indochina war also France, The war in 1962 Portugal was involved in, the Troubles in Norther Ireland between Britain and Ireland, Falkland war between britain and Argentina, First Gulf war with both Britain and France being engaged in,10 day war in Slovenia, Bosnian war, War in Afhanistan with Britain, Germany and Italy engaged..if he considers that still a period of peace...there have been previous period that long or longer of such peace. Pax Romana springs to mind for instance. The guy is talking from not just westerncentric worldview but Britishcentric worldview and even then..as I just showed he is full of nonsense. That is just two reasons why I said what I said..the ignoring of loads of wars involving European nations and the complete Britishcentered worldview> And to think I didn't even get into every not very peaceful behavior the US engaged in!
Reddy… it doesn’t make sense to you because most likely you don’t know the history and don’t have ‘skin in the game’. I would recommend you reading Simon’s book Jerusalem and then try to comment.
A lot of presumptions you seem to be making there. How much do you know of reddragonready? Certainly you did not read that reply as that was clear and substantiated on some of the reasons why simon was described as being full of nonsense none were related to israel or jerusale@@kstatinet-wk2gh
@@kstatinet-wk2gh netty..I stopped listening before he got to any thing about Jerusalem because before that he had already shown to not be clear on historical facts..as I have demonstrated in my reply to the other reaction. So what is your real name? I had no idea we know eachother? Seeing as you seem to know me so we...oh wait..you just went around presuming a lot of thing and showing yourself to be as full of nonsense as your idol Simon here.
fyi..I lived in israel for 2 years ( has priviliged Simon?) and walked the actual streets of the old city in Jerusalem. I am also 100% zionist, I have people I love living in israel. So, when it comes to that subject..yes, I have "skin in the game"..hell, I visited my friends during the second Gulf war..even Israeli airport security looked surprised when I stated the purpose of my visit was a holiday, visiting friends. So kindly learn a lesson from this regarding presuming things about people you don't know
Palestinians were not mentioned in this clip.
Let’s cry. It is very sad.
What is a 'palestinian'?
Why would they be?
True. This is a clip about jews and antisemitism. Just like Tahiland wsnt mentiones. isnt the topic here.
Neither was the identity group that conceived and indoctrinated the anti enlightenment, anti-western Far-Left extremism.
The Frankfurt School, for instance.
The irony is off the scale.
I see more tears, cry more.
That is what gazans do.😂😂
BECAUSE THE 2 PARTY DICTATORSHIP SCREWED US WITH THERE LIIES 😢