{"id":153852,"date":"2024-01-02T04:16:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T12:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=153852"},"modified":"2024-06-09T03:11:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T11:11:05","slug":"understanding-israels-war-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=153852","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Israel&#8217;s War In Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-States-Think-Rationality-Foreign\/dp\/B0CDJBLSBK\/\">John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato write in their 2023 book, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;when states believe their survival is at stake, they do not hesitate to kill large numbers of civilians if such murderous behavior will help them avoid defeat or massive casualties on the battlefield. Britain and the United States blockaded Germany during World War I in an attempt to starve its civilian population and force the Kaiserreich to surrender. The United States also relentlessly firebombed Japanese cities beginning in March 1945 before dropping atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, to bring World War II to an end and minimize American casualties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John J. 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