{"id":13404,"date":"2021-05-17T09:21:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T16:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13404"},"modified":"2021-05-17T09:21:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T16:21:41","slug":"how-to-ensure-a-middle-east-war-in-five-easy-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/how-to-ensure-a-middle-east-war-in-five-easy-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Ensure a Middle East War in Five Easy Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ <em>American Greatness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 2,500 rockets have landed in Israel over the past week. Some Arab Israeli citizens are terrorizing Jewish Israelis. Apparently, as the rockets fall, these citizens are to be Arab Islamic nationalists first, and Israelis last\u2014even if they wisely prefer to live on the Israeli rather than the Palestinian side of Israel\u2019s hated wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The usual Hamas sympathizers are promising&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PolitiBunny\/status\/1394028574034866178\">death to the Jews<\/a>&nbsp;on social media (so much for the idea that Twitter and Facebook are \u201cshocked, shocked\u201d by impolite expressions of the Trumpian sort).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran is always Iran\u2014hubristic and chest-thumping that an obsequious United States will ease sanctions, allowing billions of dollars into the country, and thus empowering Iran to revive former levels of funding to Hezbollah and Hamas, to restructure the terrorist weaponry pipeline to Yemen, and to sanctify the Iran-deal trajectory to an Iranian bomb. Tehran just issued a third-rate video of the Republican Guard destroying the U.S. Capitol, apparently to show the world how it plans to humiliate an appeasing Biden State Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/05\/16\/how-to-ensure-a-middle-east-war-in-five-easy-steps\/\">READ MORE&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness More than 2,500 rockets have landed in Israel over the past week. Some Arab Israeli citizens are terrorizing Jewish Israelis. Apparently, as the rockets fall, these citizens are to be Arab Islamic nationalists first, and Israelis last\u2014even if they wisely prefer to live on the Israeli rather than the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3uc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7637,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/moral-equivalence-moral-idiocy\/","url_meta":{"origin":13404,"position":0},"title":"Moral Equivalence, Moral Idiocy","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"by Bruce Thornton \/\/ FrontPage Magazine Scenes all too familiar from the Arab conflict with Israel have followed the murder last Wednesday of a 16-year-old Palestinian, Mohammed Abu Khdeir. 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