Sources, Books & Media (MOC)

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The full PDF library of books lives in Israel Palestine MOC + Timeline and Israel-Palestinian Library.

Historical Research Dossiers

Benjamin Moser — Anti-Zionism historical fact-check — 118-claim audit with local book, complete citations and source-access record and the full supplied interview transcript.
- All twelve chapters — 68 additional checks · Full-source Iraq/Herzl comparison and verified episode links.
The good Jew bargain - historical cases and limits — ten cases and comparisons, archival and scholarly sources, twelve book recommendations, and seven YouTube recordings or lectures.

Book Notes

The Cauldron — Simon Sebag Montefiore — regional history from Ottoman rule through the supplied draft’s early-2026 endpoint; complete narrative summary, retention layers, and closed-book questions. Production-draft limitations are documented; historical and recent-event claims are attributed to the author, not independently verified by the summary.

📥 These books feed the argument notes

Each book below is annotated with the arguments it now supplies evidence for (as 📖 callouts inside those notes). Open a book to see its backlinks, or follow the argument link to see the quote in context.

On Democracies and Death Cults — → Genocide · Ethnic Cleansing · Radicalization · Zionism · Attacks of Jews since October 7th 2023 · Violence Against Jews Before 1948
What Justice Demands — → Apartheid · Oppressors · Israel · Colonizers
The War of Return — → Right of Return · Nakba · UNRWA
We Should All be Zionists - Einat Wilf — → Right of Return · Zionism (river-to-sea / “instead of vs next to”)
The Genius of Israel — → Israel (society thrives under fire)
Prophets without Honor — → Peace Offers (Ben-Ami on Arafat’s rejectionism) · balanced/critical — steelman source
One State, Two States — → Peace Offers · Ethnic Cleansing · Colonizers (1968 PLO Charter)
Son of Hamas — → Hamas · Children indoctrination to Hate and Kill Jews (insider testimony)
Striking Back - The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response — → Colonizers (Black September / Munich)
Rise and Kill First - The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations — → Colonizers (counter-terror response)
The Jackal - Joby Warrick — Wadie Haddad, PFLP external operations, the Orly attack, and Warrick’s peace-sabotage interpretation · → Peace Offers
Six Days of War — → West Bank · Occupation (defensive 1967 war)
The Lion's Gate — → West Bank (1967 Jerusalem)
The Iron Wall - Israel and the Arab World — Avi Shlaim’s historical application of the doctrine · → The Iron Wall (Jabotinsky, 1923) · revisionist/critical — steelman source
Treacherous Alliance — Israel, Iran, and the United States as a shifting strategic triangle · → Iran · Foreign Policy

Podcasts & Interviews — by voice

Haviv Rettig Gur (historian / analyst)

Haviv Rettig Gur on The Breakfast Club - Zionism, Rescue and the Collapse of Trust — 20 October 2026; Russian Jewish rescue history, the definition of Zionism, Second Intifada trust collapse, time-coded dialogue, rhetoric, and selective claim audit
Israelis The Jews Who Lived Through History - Haviv Rettig Gur
The Great Misinterpretation How Palestinians View Israel - Haviv Rettig Gur
Haviv Rettig Gur on Breaking Points
Coleman Hughes & Haviv Rettig Gur on the New Antisemitism
Prof. Alexander Yakobson on what it means to "decolonize Palestine" - Ask Haviv Anything

Einat Wilf & Benny Morris (Israeli left / historians)

Meaning of "The Jewish State" - Einat Wilf
Israel Never Truly Wanted Peace with Palestine - Einat Wilf (Opposition Speech) — 2026 Oxford Union speech; time-coded argument map, selective fact audit, strongest counter-case, and debate module
Benny Morris- Israel-Palestine, Genocide, Apartheid, Hamas, Muscular Judaism, and the Nakba

Debating the critics (Beinart, Finkelstein, Mate)

War, aid & the settlements question (legal / military)

Inside Israel's War Room — Coleman Hughes / Elliot Kaufman — complete supplied transcript, 26 coverage sections, sourced answers and qualified claim audit; Hamas, funding, hostages, aid/famine, coalition choices, IHL and regional strategy.
Almost Everything We're Told About Gaza is Wrong - Urban Warfare Expert John Spencer
NAZA Documentary - IDF Targeting Allegations and Natasha Hausdorff Response — timestamped proportionality, AI-targeting, anonymous-source, and policy-evidence audit; preserves the film/IDF/UKLFI source boundaries
Natasha Hausdorff controverts allegations regarding Israeli settlements
UN admits Hamas is stealing aid in Gaza; Natasha Hausdorff considers implications
Was There a Famine in Gaza - Alex de Waal Interview Fact-Check — separates the 2024 warnings from the 2025 IPC classification; audits mortality estimates, aid-diversion evidence, and the 2026 recovery survey

Hamas in its own words (primary-source)

Other commentary

Yes, We Have No Bananas - David Frum: supplied Atlantic essay (26 October 2026) on aid, grocery prices, domestic-spending comparisons, and economic scapegoating; includes source checks, corrected NYCHA definitions, assumptions, and debate applications. → United States Supporting Israel · Arguments notes > Aid to Israel, domestic priorities, and economic scapegoating.
Nick Matau vs LightBulb Chats - Palestinian Statehood and Security Debate — complete transcript audit extracting the strongest conditional-statehood and anti-Hamas arguments while correcting polling, peace-offer, greenhouse, worker-intelligence, and historical claims
Let's Talk HASAN PIKER - Luke Thomas Gets Political — Luke Thomas’s defense of Piker audited against the transcript, on-screen Klein/Arendt quotations, and the IR meaning of blowback
Sam Harris Podcast - 362
A Dangerous Moment, with Douglas Murray - Uncommon Knowledge
Bassem Youssef on Triggernometry
MarhyrMade Podcast Notes

Essays & Primary Texts

Azzam Pasha — prewar interview, 11 October 1947 — Arabic facsimile, corrected English excerpts, contemporary February 1948 citation, and competing interpretations; feeds the pre-1948 argument and chronology
Critiquing Palestinian Historiography (Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem Martyr Made Response)
The Iron Wall (Jabotinsky, 1923) — primary essay, sequel, strongest defense and critique, Shlaim debate, and counterexamples
A Clean Break - A New Strategy for Securing the Realm
Modern Middle East Colonizers
Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel)

Reports & Institutional Studies

The UN's Anti-Israel Ecosystem - Schwartz, Yakoby, and Fredman — 2026 Misgav advocacy report mapping 33 UN bodies, mechanisms, and related pathways; integrated with a primary-source claim audit, comparator limits, and the authors’ policy recommendations kept separate from factual findings

Media Coverage Studies

How the New York Times Framed the War Between Israel and Hamas - Edieal Pinker — NYT war-coverage content study; page-linked working-paper tables, later-version differences, and limits on claims of bias.
NYT vs The Intercept — article-level October 7 claim audit. A different question and method from Pinker’s corpus study.
Kristof Dog-Rape Column - HonestReporting Sourcing Thread — HonestReporting’s Sep 2026 thread tracing Kristof’s “multiple human rights groups” to recycled Euro-Med/PCHR testimony; side-by-side comparison tables, with limits and a verification checklist.
Media — subject-specific media reference scratchpad.

Journalist safety, access, and classification

Journalists in the Gaza War — multi-source evidence dossier on journalist and media-worker deaths, foreign-press access restrictions, information loss, alleged targeting, classification corrections, and alleged dual-role cases; keeps Nick Turse and Costs of War, CPJ, and IDF claims source-separated and legally bounded. Used in: Natasha Hausdorff Exposes Lies about Israel in International Tribunals · LonerBox with Whick-TV - Casualty Classification and Human Rights Reporting · Hamas · Gaza Casualty Figures ·

Fact-Checking

Lied about Cast Lead Casualty Numbers
Johnson — How to Sell a Genocide (Pluto, 2026) — full audit project → Fact-Check MOC — How to Sell a Genocide
- 05 - Findings Register — the nine confirmed discrepancies, each with the direction it cuts
- 06 - Open Questions — the three structural problems that outweigh any single error
- 04 - Results Stage 1 — live GDELT test of the event-type objection the book never addresses
Finkelstein — Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom

LonerBox — Deep Dives

LonerBox Notes — source-provenance hub, verification rules, and the full research index
LonerBox - Antisemitism, Hamas, US Leverage and Gaza Debate Panel — transcript-wide argument map; independently sourced modules on American leverage/precision, Hamas information control and civilian labeling, later combatant identifications, and Hezbollah
Early Zionism — The Jewish State (Herzl, 1896) · Auto-Emancipation (Pinsker, 1882) · Early Arab Responses to Zionism (1882–1914) · Ottoman Restrictions on Jewish Immigration and Settlement
Iran and Hezbollah — Iran - Regime, Society and Historical Timeline · Velayat-e Faqih - Governance of the Jurist · Iran Nuclear Program - Evidence and Timeline · Nasrallah Speeches and Interviews (1986–2006)
1948 papers
Goldstone Report
Great March of Return
NYT vs The Intercept
Sde Teiman sexual abuse
The Aesthetics of Academic Credibility with Javad Hashmi
The Cookie Files

Destiny — Debate Prep

Reference & Collections

Base index

Attachment (file not included in this release)

Filed captures and working notes — October 2026

Source notes, interview captures and debate material

Ben Shapiro - “Israel’s War is a Just War” — preserved working note or source capture

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Benny Morris reviews Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years War on Palestine — preserved working note or source capture

Crackpot History investigates Fear and Loathing in New Jersalem Podcast — preserved working note or source capture

Debate - Joe Rogan & Dave Smith vs. Douglas Murray Transcript — preserved working note or source capture

Destiny vs Baddar on Break Points — preserved working note or source capture

Destiny vs Einat Wilf — preserved working note or source capture

Destiny vs. Ben Burgis — preserved working note or source capture

Douglas Murray Andrew Gold Podcast — preserved working note or source capture

Douglas Murray Choose Life, Not the Death Cult — preserved working note or source capture

Douglas Murray Lex Fridman — preserved working note or source capture

Douglas Murray Speech — preserved working note or source capture

Douglas Murray Unherd Podcast — preserved working note or source capture

Gad Saad on Joe Rogan about Why Israel Should Exist — preserved working note or source capture

Haviv Rettig Gur - The Gathering Storm - FP in Israel — preserved working note or source capture

Israel - Michael Rectenwald vs Shabbos Kestenbaum (Debate) — preserved working note or source capture

Konstantin Kisin Hosts Heated Israel-Palestine Debate — preserved working note or source capture

Konstantin Kisin on Murray vs Smith — preserved working note or source capture

Konstantin Kisin vs Dave Smith Piers Morgan June 2025 — preserved working note or source capture

Live from Tel Aviv, Bari Weiss in conversation with Einat Wilf — preserved working note or source capture

Live from the Table - Dan Senor on Israel's State of Affairs — preserved working note or source capture

Live from the Table Gaza and Gaming, A Meeting with Destiny aka Steven Bonnell — preserved working note or source capture

Martyr Made Fear and Loathing in New Jerusalem - TRANSCRIPT — preserved working note or source capture

Mosab Hassan Yousef vs. Marc Lamont Hill - Debate — preserved working note or source capture

Mosab vs UCLA Student — preserved working note or source capture

Nasrallah's speeches and interviews — preserved working note or source capture

Noam Dworman vs Dave Smith on Twitter — preserved working note or source capture

Norm Dworman Winston Marshall Podcast — preserved working note or source capture

Rahma Zein vs Mosab Hassan Yousef — preserved working note or source capture

Students Against Antisemitism vs. Harvard — preserved working note or source capture

The Arabs of Palestine - The Atlantic (1961) — preserved working note or source capture

The Great Debate Israel v Palestine Candace Ep 10 — preserved working note or source capture

The Soil Beneath the Encampments - How Israel and Jews Became the Focus of Hate at Harvard — preserved working note or source capture

These 5 questions DESTROY the pro-Palestine narrative. — preserved working note or source capture

Unraveling the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict An Insightful Exploration of History and Delusions by Einat Wilf — preserved working note or source capture

Vastly Grossman on Antisemitism — preserved working note or source capture

Destiny source notes and research captures

Destiny Notes - Oct 7th Invasion — preserved working note or source capture

Destiny Notes October 7th Hamas Attack — preserved working note or source capture

Destiny talk with Liam O'Mara and Dominic Andre — preserved working note or source capture

Oct 7th War - Destiny Notes — preserved working note or source capture