Why can't we all just get along?

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The bloody great revolt marked the end of the age of antiquity in the history of the Jews and the beginning of life in exile. But what actually took place inside the walls of Jerusalem in those last moments before the Romans marched in, will make your stomach turn. Unfounded hatred paved the road to the destruction of the 2nd temple with the bodies of our brothers and sisters. And the scary part is that the parallels to our time are beyond coincidental: political polarization, extreme social allergy, sedition by violent militias, snubbing local laws, false social influencers, and a world at a historical turning point. Could it be that when we unleash our inherent power in the wrong direction we invoke such fear in the hearts of the nations of the world that their only logical response is to try and extricate this toxic element from their midst? What if we could harness that same destructive energy but used it to power a totally new reality instead?

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Lio: What the Jews did to each other, even the Romans did not do to them.
Seth: I'm asking you, listener, is this the history of our people that you understood? Is this the story that we've been telling ourselves? A few million people can't get along on this tiny Mediterranean strip. They were terrorists. They would go and kill someone and then hide in the crowd and say, get the stab. But they came from within the people. They were terrorists who were Jews. Jews, let's get it together. That's a formula. It's so simple, it's painful. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was. All things are mortal, but the Jew. All other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?
Lio: Okay, listen, enough of that. This is a podcast, and we're not just going to try; we're going to find the solution to antisemitism. We're going to stop that right here, right now, from this stinking basement. When we get to the bottom of this, we're going to read from this mystery book, which you're not going to find out about until the end of the series, and we're going to really entertain every perspective. We're not going to say, "Oh, you can't say this, you can't say that." No, we're going to say everything because if we're not going to be able to talk about it, we're not going to be able to solve it. We're going to really grab you in the kishkes, and we're going to squeeze until we get something, right? Either a bowel movement or a solution. We want to know what happened 3,500 years ago in Babylon that started this whole mess, and we want to finish it here in 2020. That's it. The Great Revolt of Self-Inflicted Genocide.