{"id":166,"date":"2003-10-11T22:04:56","date_gmt":"2003-10-12T05:04:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-10-11T22:04:56","modified_gmt":"2003-10-12T05:04:56","slug":"doomsday-is-already-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/11\/doomsday-is-already-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Doomsday is Already Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is now reported to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/la-fg-iznukes12oct12.story\" title=\"submarines equipped with nuclear weapons.\">submarines equipped with nuclear weapons.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As an Israeli, I find it a great relief. Now, even if Israel is completely destroyed, we&#8217;ll strike back at whoever did it. We may all perish &#8211; but not ignominously!<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the future is already here. Just like in the doomsday scenario, Israel&#8217;s governments have been doing their best to destroy the country in every possible way &#8211; devastating its economy, society, culture, environment, security, its political, education, welfare and health systems &#8211; but enhancing its ability to strike militarilly (in order to expand the settlements).<\/p>\n<p>The only trouble is that we Israelis have no nukes to strike back at our own government. So we do perish ignominously, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is now reported to have submarines equipped with nuclear weapons. As an Israeli, I find it a great relief. Now, even if Israel is completely destroyed, we&#8217;ll strike back at whoever did it. We may all perish &#8211; but not ignominously! In fact, the future is already here. Just like in the doomsday scenario, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}