{"id":56050,"date":"2025-11-08T05:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T13:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=56050"},"modified":"2025-11-08T05:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T13:09:12","slug":"john-mearsheimer-on-the-nightmare-known-as-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/08\/john-mearsheimer-on-the-nightmare-known-as-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer on The Nightmare Known as Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/the-nightmare-known-as-israel\">John&#8217;s Substack<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>On 6 November 2025, I was on \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d with Judge Napolitano talking about Israel. We not only discussed Israel\u2019s barbaric behavior toward the Palestinians, but also talked about: 1) the deep divisions within Israeli society that threaten to tear it apart; 2) its militaristic foreign policy that either has it at war with its neighbors (think Lebanon) or contemplating war with them (think Iran); and 3) its profound problems in the United States, where it is hemorrhaging support across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F3aIyWOQm6A?si=xBLc7_oKgcfcEB5_\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from John&#8217;s Substack: On 6 November 2025, I was on \u201cJudging Freedom\u201d with Judge Napolitano talking about Israel. We not only discussed Israel\u2019s barbaric behavior toward the Palestinians, but also talked about: 1) the deep divisions within Israeli society that threaten to tear it apart; 2) its militaristic foreign policy that either has it [&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":[1054],"class_list":["post-56050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56050","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=56050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56055,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56050\/revisions\/56055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56050"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=56050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}