{"id":359180,"date":"2018-05-01T06:59:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T05:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/laughing-while-pulling-the-trigger-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-05-01T06:59:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T05:59:56","slug":"laughing-while-pulling-the-trigger-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/laughing-while-pulling-the-trigger-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughing While Pulling the Trigger \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Donald Trump has shown \u201csadism\u201d against Palestinians who\u2019ve turned to Ghandian protests but are still being slaughtered by Israel, says Max Blumenthal in this interview with Dennis J. Bernstein.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Dennis J Bernstein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bernstein-New.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bernstein-New-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-27406\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-27406\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bernstein-New-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a>Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author. \u00a0His reporting on the brutalities of illegal Israeli occupation has set the standard for real reporting on the issue. Blumenthal has also reported on every aspect of the Israeli\/US propaganda machine that works 24\/7 to sustain the Israeli occupation.<\/p>\n<p>Blumenthal\u2019s articles have appeared in <i>The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, and The Nation Magazine.<\/i> \u00a0He also co-hosts the podcast <i>Moderate Rebels<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Bernstein spoke with Max Blumenthal on April 19th.<\/p>\n<p><b>Dennis Bernstein: <\/b>\u00a0I understand you were in the Gaza Strip recently. \u00a0You were there just before the latest slaughter along the border fence [on March 30]?<i><br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Max Blumenthal: <\/b>I was there just weeks before the Great March of Return, when Israeli snipers began shooting regular people in Gaza who marched to the border wall to protest their open-air imprisonment. \u00a0Preparations were just starting for that march.<\/p>\n<p>I got the chance to interview the wife of a man who had been refused an exit permit to get treatment for cancer. \u00a0He was forced to basically sit on his deathbed when he had a condition that could have been treated in the West Bank. \u00a0He was one of scores of people documented by the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights in the Gaza Strip who were refused exit permits and were forced to die.<\/p>\n<p>Some are wondering why people would rush the border and risk their own lives by walking into the teeth of Israeli snipers. You have to understand that every family in Gaza has a story like this.<\/p>\n<p><b>DB: \u00a0<\/b>You tweeted a very disturbing video of Israeli soldiers shooting from behind this electric fence. \u00a0One of the shots shows them shooting and laughing.<\/p>\n<p><b>MB: \u00a0<\/b>The video was released by Breaking the Silence, a group of former and current Israeli soldiers who have confessed to crimes they have committed in the field. \u00a0They obtained this video, which was taken through a sniper\u2019s scope, showing a sniper&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/04\/30\/laughing-while-pulling-the-trigger\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has shown \u201csadism\u201d against Palestinians who\u2019ve turned to Ghandian protests but are still being slaughtered by Israel, says Max Blumenthal in this interview with Dennis J. Bernstein. By Dennis J Bernstein Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author. \u00a0His reporting on the brutalities of illegal Israeli occupation has set the standard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-359180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}