{"id":1939,"date":"2014-07-24T09:04:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T13:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2015-12-03T02:09:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T07:09:45","slug":"3-sentence-summary-of-whats-happening-in-israel-and-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=1939","title":{"rendered":"3-sentence summary of what’s happening in Israel and Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hamas is trying to kill as many civilians as it can.<\/p>\n

Israel is trying to kill as few civilians as it can.<\/p>\n

Neither is succeeding very well.<\/p>\n

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Update (July 28):<\/strong><\/span> Please check out a superb\u00a0essay by Sam Harris<\/a> on the Israeli\/Palestinian conflict. \u00a0While, as Harris says, the essay contains “something to offend everyone”—even me—it also brilliantly articulates many of the points I’ve been trying to make in this comment thread.<\/p>\n

See also a good HuffPost article<\/a> by Ali A. Rizvi, a “Pakistani-Canadian writer, physician, and musician.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hamas is trying to kill as many civilians as it can. Israel is trying to kill as few civilians as it can. Neither is succeeding very well. Update (July 28): Please check out a superb\u00a0essay by Sam Harris on the Israeli\/Palestinian conflict. \u00a0While, as Harris says, the essay contains “something to offend everyone”—even me—it also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obviously-im-not-defending-aaronson","category-the-fate-of-humanity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1946,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}