{"id":55590,"date":"2025-10-10T04:44:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=55590"},"modified":"2025-10-10T04:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:46:21","slug":"john-mearsheimer-reflecting-on-the-horror-of-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/10\/john-mearsheimer-reflecting-on-the-horror-of-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer: Reflecting on the Horror of Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/reflecting-on-the-horror-of-gaza\">John\u2019s Substack<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 7 October 2025, the second anniversary of Hamas\u2019s breakout from the Gaza concentration camp, I was on the Katie Halper show with Susan Abulhawa, a prominent Palestinian writer and activist, talking about what has happened in Gaza over the past two years and what is likely to happen moving forward.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" 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