Thanks for the clarification. Nevertheless, the roots of this conflict go back a long way. After all, the Arabs were promised autonomy as a reward for their uprising against the Turks. And it's not clear what rumors about this 'operation' were being bandied about - and if they had, someone as well-connected as Mearsheimer would have known about it.
Fwiw, this conversation was recorded on September 28, well before the Hamas attacks.
Thanks for the clarification. Nevertheless, the roots of this conflict go back a long way. After all, the Arabs were promised autonomy as a reward for their uprising against the Turks. And it's not clear what rumors about this 'operation' were being bandied about - and if they had, someone as well-connected as Mearsheimer would have known about it.
He's not very well connected and he's almost universally derided by anyone that knows anything at all about IR or geopolitics. Total crank.