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(Working out that critique of the nation-as-person metaphor a bit: “What does Israel want?,” for example, is not a meaningful question. There are many people in Israel, all of whom are individual beings possessing separate minds. Israel, a political entity, does not “want.” People do. The more meaningful forms of that question are things like “What is prevailing opinion within the group?” or “What unites this faction?” More here: https://www.arieverhagen.nl/files/George-Lakoff-1991-Metaphor-and-War.pdf)