{"id":47696,"date":"2024-05-18T09:14:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T17:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=47696"},"modified":"2024-05-18T09:14:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T17:14:23","slug":"john-mearsheimer-why-are-they-making-gaza-unlivable-its-very-simple-they-want-to-drive-the-palestinians-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/18\/john-mearsheimer-why-are-they-making-gaza-unlivable-its-very-simple-they-want-to-drive-the-palestinians-out\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer:  &#8216;Why Are They Making Gaza Unlivable?  It&#8217;s Very Simple, They Want To Drive the Palestinians Out&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 15 May 2024, I was in Sydney, Australia, where I spoke at the Centre for Independent Studies about the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. I analyzed both the war in Gaza, which started on October 7 and continues to rage; and the fighting between Iran on one side and Israel and the US on the other side, that took place between 1 April and 19 April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>I then assessed the consequences of these two conflicts for Israel, the US, and Iran.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note:\u00a0\u00a0 This is a very informative and insightful talk.\u00a0\u00a0 I learned a lot. ~EG<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kAfIYtpcBxo?si=2oj3ZjTwENax_CNt\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reposted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/\">John&#8217;s Substack<\/a> with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 15 May 2024, I was in Sydney, Australia, where I spoke at the Centre for Independent Studies about the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. I analyzed both the war in Gaza, which started on October 7 and continues to rage; and the fighting between Iran on one side and Israel and the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_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":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-47696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"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\/47696","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47696"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47700,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47696\/revisions\/47700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47696"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=47696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}