This week's rumination is on the rhetorical, metaphorical language of escalation and de escalation in reference to Israel and the Middle East more generally. The metaphors that people use are important. People don't think outside of language, and metaphors create or constrain the ability to think about complex problems, like war in the Middle East.

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