Episode
The Political Economy of Palestine (with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour)
EconTalk · Aug 3, 2026 · 1 h 28 min
Most discourses about Israel or Palestine are morality plays of good guys vs bad guys. Egyptian-born Hussein Aboubakr Mansour takes a different approach, seeing the conflict as a self-reproducing system of political and economic extraction where Arab regimes, opposition movements, rival states, Western academics, NGOs, and Gulf monarchies like Qatar all convert Palestinian victimhood into their…