The moral and strategic bankruptcy of US policy in Gaza and Ukraine
Jul 16, 2024
John Mearsheimer discusses Ukraine’s dire situation on the battlefield and its bleak political future; and Israel’s use of the “Hannibal Doctrine” on October 7.
On 11 July 2024, I talked with Judge Napolitano on his podcast — “Judging Freedom” — about Ukraine’s dire situation on the battlefield and its bleak political future. We also discussed the two blockbuster stories involving Israel that came out this past week.
The first is the Ha’aretz story that Israel employed the so-called “Hannibal Doctrine” on October 7, which Israel and its defenders in the West had long denied, while smearing those who argued that the doctrine was at play on that fateful day. The second is the article in the Lancet — a distinguished British scientific journal — that the death toll from Israel’s murderous campaign in Gaza is far higher than the 37,400 number that is commonly cited today.
Republished from Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom, July 13, 2024
John J. Mearsheimer
John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982.
He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1980.
He spent the 1979-1980 academic year as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs from 1980 to 1982. During the 1998-1999 academic year, he was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Andrew P. Napolitano
Andrew P. Napolitano Hard-hitting legal/political news from a man who knows and respects the Constitution and the importance of defending individual freedoms.
A daily discussion of news from the perspective that government is the negation of liberty, and the individual is greater than the state. Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Notre Dame Law School. He is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of the State of New Jersey. He sat on the bench from 1987 to 1995, when he presided over more than 150 jury trials and thousands of motions, sentencings, and hearings.
JudgeNap is nationally known for watching and reporting on the government as it takes liberty and property.
The Judge is the author of nine books on the U.S. Constitution, two of which have been New York Times Best Sellers. Learn more at JudgeNap.com
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