{"id":123728,"date":"2023-10-12T17:12:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T21:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=123728"},"modified":"2023-10-12T17:42:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T21:42:37","slug":"nyt-as-israel-prepares-for-war-in-gaza-debate-is-over-how-and-how-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=123728","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) As Israel Prepares for War in Gaza, Debate Is Over How and How Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is not one member of the cabinet who does not agree that Hamas must be smashed to ashes,\u201d Mr. [Yaakov] Amidror said. \u201cHow long it takes, the methods, how to minimize the number of civilian casualties, this is the dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we have to take the whole Gaza Strip, we will do it slowly but surely, even if it takes six months,\u201d he added, echoing what senior officers have said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/12\/world\/europe\/israel-gaza-ground-invasion.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Israel, already bombing intensively in Gaza, is gearing up for a major military operation there unlike any in the past, warning the world that for Israel, after the massacre of its citizens by Hamas on Saturday, the rules have changed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W3WND3ePH9\">https:\/\/t.co\/W3WND3ePH9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Times World (@nytimesworld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimesworld\/status\/1712557702612725762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is not one member of the cabinet who does not agree that Hamas must be smashed to ashes,\u201d Mr. [Yaakov] Amidror said. \u201cHow long it takes, the methods, how to minimize the number of civilian casualties, this is the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=123728\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,565,563,203,106,148,567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-israel","category-lebanon","category-middle-east","category-military-armed-forces","category-terrorism","category-the-palestinianisraeli-struggle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123731,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123728\/revisions\/123731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}