{"id":2864,"date":"2006-07-19T13:39:35","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T20:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/19\/brutal-mistakes\/"},"modified":"2006-07-19T13:39:35","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T20:39:35","slug":"brutal-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/19\/brutal-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Brutal Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ha&#8217;aretz&#8217;s military affairs expert Ze&#8217;ev Schiff is pleased as punch that\u00c2\u00a0the green light the U.S. has given\u00c2\u00a0will last\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/739488.html\">for a week or two, and possibly more<\/a>,&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 provided Israel doesn&#8217;t make a &#8220;brutal mistake in the fighting.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 He has in mind how the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qana_shelling\">Qana massacre<\/a> in southern Lebanon\u00c2\u00a0brought short Operation <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Grapes_of_Wrath\">Grapes of Wrath<\/a> in 1996.\u00c2\u00a0 So, Israel can keep wiping out families one at a time, as it&#8217;s been doing, as long as it doesn&#8217;t wipe out 106 women and children in one fell swoop.<\/p>\n<p>If that weren&#8217;t sick enough, look at how\u00c2\u00a0Israel is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.normanfinkelstein.com\/article.php?pg=11&amp;ar=260\">lowering its draft age.\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I can&#8217;t get over that astonishing coincidence&#8211;Sept. 11 mastermind Mohamed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/network\/personal\/attawill.html\">Atta wrote his will<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0on the very day on which Israel unleashed\u00c2\u00a0Grapes of Wrath.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ha&#8217;aretz&#8217;s military affairs expert Ze&#8217;ev Schiff is pleased as punch that\u00c2\u00a0the green light the U.S. has given\u00c2\u00a0will last\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;for a week or two, and possibly more,&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 provided Israel doesn&#8217;t make a &#8220;brutal mistake in the fighting.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 He has in mind how the Qana massacre in southern Lebanon\u00c2\u00a0brought short Operation Grapes of Wrath in 1996.\u00c2\u00a0 So, Israel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"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-2864","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\/2864","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}