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While understanding that you want to help teh palestinian people I am not sure I get your call for giving money to UNRWA. (dunno the other associations) Do you realize one of the main root cause to why the population of Gaza has pursued voting for killing jews as a goal in life are the books thought by UNRWA schools ? Do you really think that Hamas violent policies are the solution to the palestinian problem ?

What's Gilles' political philosophy on returning kidnapped hostages?

Our prefrontal cortices, thought to be responsible for impulse control and abstract thinking, are still developing until age 25. Even afterwards, there are huge differences in intelligence (plus wealth, privilege, and other factors) between people that make a perfect balance of power impossible. Sex is a bestial act that can't be reconciled to moral systems. It might even be the exclusive right of those between the age of puberty and 25, who are too naive to realize they're perpetuating this useless species. The real horror that motivates legal systems is self-awareness. (Transgression is the only framework for our consciousness to acquiesce to animal urges. I.e., "It's wrong--that's what makes it hot!") Since the Enlightenment, governments have struggled to decontextualize sin, and still make legal positivism believable. Also, if you think you're equals, you're probably the one being exploited.

What a load of horseshit.

I will use my own title because the real title can be offensive. Not even 1min in and reality is already being modified for a fake sense of virtue.

again, very naive and verging on antisemitism to think that palestinians are the only oppresed people in the world. the day you care about people other than palestinians i will take these videos seriously

Many wrong things, including the facts that we form our opinions upon. Sorry but I'm not with you this time. If a lot of intellectuals have remained silent, is because there is an unbelievable social push to take the palestinian side at the moment, and extreme isolation is expected as punishment for those with more nuanced views. In this terror, people who know prefer to remain silent.

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came here for ethica, stayed for more philosophy and now this… your channel is full of charming surprises 👏

David, I would like to thank you for talking about this topic, thank you a million times❤️❤️ Palestine needs our support

It isn't an unequal power distribution. It is just he result of power, and the only way to solve this problem is the abolishment of power as opposed to an equitable distribution of power.

Hello again. I am so happy that you are continuing to educate me and others on the horrors of not only today, but the past, and the likely future. I have made a small donation and encourage others with any spare income to do so as well. Thank you again.

thank you a million

Dear, this is a good start to educate yourself and try to educate those around you. However, you should consider, still, how Eurocentric and bound by colonial epistemology your approach is. This is very clear in the sources you use in all the recent Palestine-related videos (even if you use Edward Said, but that's one source only), it is also clear every time you struggle to say 'Palestine' (and just say 'the palestinians', 'the palestinian territories'..etc), and it is also clear because of the MERE FACT that you THINK it is needed to mention the 7th of Oct. attack, let alone state clearly your political stance on it... only when you're more decolonised (not fully decolonised) you will see that things like these would've come out differently in this (or the other Palestine-related) video(s).

And the meningite? Any meningite? Personal meningite, not just what we do to help the World? Any suggested tipo? Almost in the Loonies again...tks

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Every grain of Palestinian sand will be free.

The point of philosophy is not just to examine the world but to change it! :)

Sartre too was une petite souris when it came to the question of Palestine, read the long article by the late Edward Said in Le Monde about his meeting with Sartre in Paris

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Also interesting to note the Heideggerean vibes in the first ‘Stones’ essay

It shouldn’t be forgotten that the IDF has used Deleuze’s theories as a way to justify their attack on Palestine. Eyal Weizman has a great article about this, and there are accounts of IDF soldiers who talk about Deleuze’s theories as the driving theory of their colonial warfare. If this isn’t proof that Deleuze should not be the theorist we turn to for revolution or emancipation, then I don’t know what is.

I agree that a ceasefire is necessary, now. However, your viewpoint is slanted. You characterize the Zionists as terrorists. Was not Israel established in 1917 by the British Balfour Declaration and the UN recognition of 1949? What about the international community’s approval of the State of Israel? Therefore, the state of Israel has the right to protect and defend their people. Likewise, why did Palestinians hate and terrorize the Jews, particularly through the disgusting technique of the “suicide bomber” or the car bomb or the missile? Exactly who is initiating the violence and who is retaliating? Given the facts of several wars by coalitions of Arabs against Israel, and the ever increasing migration of Arabs into Palestine, hence the term “Palestinian,” it appears that the Arabs hate and terrorize the Jews. It has been the Palestinians who have repeatedly rejected a two-state solution. You are denying that the Palestinians and the entire Arab world are deeply prejudiced against Israel. Recall that Saddam Hussein gave the family of each suicide bomber $100,000! You fail to acknowledge the very long list of terrorizing events against Israel. The Palestinians have established themselves as terrorists, full of hate. I am appalled at your topsyturvy notions of historical reality.

Deleuze was wrong. .Just like many other philosophical geniuses before him, he totally missed the point on the conflict and looked at it from his own European-Liberal guilt. I would write more about the many errors him and you, Mr. Guignion, made in this video, but I see it is a repeating motive in most of your video essays so I won't bother. I will say this: The Palestinian connection to the land isn't a romantic "grander" of endurance, but a religious calling that separates the world to Dar-El-Islam (The land the Islam took over, which belongs to them forever) and Dar-El-Harb (The land Islam has not yet conquered, which mean they have to fight for it until they do). So no, it's not just a romantic struggle for freedom. It’s a religious demand, that Arafat and other Palestinian leaders used in order to gain power (I suppose you heard about the civil war in Lebanon in the 70's, that had nothing to do with Israel until they invaded in 82 - but if you can blame the Jews for something, why not, right?). Thousands of Palestinians ran over to other counties over the years. Some, granted, by design. Israel is far from a perfect state, or a helpless victim. Zionism was a revolution, and in a revolution, there are innocent victims. In fact, most Palestinians live today in Jorden and not in Gaza/West-bank. Does it means they do not deserve a country of their own? No. I support the creation of a Palestinian State next to a Jewish state. As an Israeli, I despise my own fascist government that bought all of us into this horrible place. I want peace and political power for both collectives. I want two states. It is, and always was, the only way to peace. Many groups around the world, and in Israel itself, are making it harder to get to this peace scenario. One less-powerful group are you, the liberal left in North America. I hope we'll be able to solve this crisis eventually, and all of us here - Palestinians and Israelis alike - will be able to rise above our hatred and live in peace. However, when we will, of that I'm sure, it will not be with the help of those who demonize us as murderers, land-thieves and colonialists. No, we will get peace not because of you, but in-spite of you.

You're being such an awful lib. Attitude like yours will not free Palestine, Hamas will. But thank you for supporting Palestine.

We are all Palestinians. We say that aspirationally, because we are inspired by their courage.

Deleuze on Palestine is like Sartre on Staline.

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Hey David ! Great work ! Do you think you could a critique analysis of Arendt's book On Revolution ?

So glad you're back!

As always, a great video.

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Fantastic work.

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Fantastic video, thanks! 🇵🇸

Interesting thoughts here, and a great explanation, I should pick up this book! I would like to apply this to Zupancic/Zizek who say: "Man is a Woman who believes in herself", but with a desubjectifying twist. I think the criticisms are weak because the goal of Guattari here is not to perscript a single privileged person, but to talk about a societal shift. Of course a single person desubjectifying themself would be vain and unhelpful, but the scale of sociology, it is important to recognize the subjectifying elements and how they can be overturned.

one of the best & clearest explanations ❤

I just need you to know that this presentation style is ideal lecture format for my learning style. In the age of AI and short attention spans, your pacing between topics and storytelling narrative are what I want to call the IDEAL teaching mechanism. This is glorious and I want to thank you personally. - Joel

Everything i look up your page pops up lol slay

If power was destined to be divided among the different social bodies then there is no panopticon. The principle of the panopticon is the centralisation of power. Power has to be in the center and by way of gaze this power is exercised upon those in the peripheries

Some really good anologies are made in this video highlighting the double standards of the west regarding hijab however colonialism and other important aspects are not mentioned

here because my daughter was talking to me about this work in her university studies.

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A lot of nonsense in this video, but the ideas of Agamben and Foucault remain interesting and potentially insightful.