{"id":361439,"date":"2018-05-16T13:56:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T12:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/kill-and-kill-and-kill\/"},"modified":"2018-05-16T13:56:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T12:56:46","slug":"kill-and-kill-and-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/kill-and-kill-and-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill and Kill and Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_102133\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102133\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-15-at-9.18.08-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"381\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jordi Bernabeu Farr\u00fas | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Two spectacles unfolded in Palestine on Monday.\u00a0 In Gaza, Israeli army snipers shot and killed 58 Palestinians\u2014including six children\u2014and injured almost three thousand others amid scenes of smoke, fire, teargas, dust, agony and blood.\u00a0 At exactly the same time, to the tinkling of champagne glasses at a glittering reception barely fifty miles away in Jerusalem, Jared Kushner and an elegant Ivanka Trump oversaw the opening of Donald Trump\u2019s new embassy there.\u00a0 The juxtaposition of these two contemporaneous scenes encapsulates at a single glance the entirety of Zionism\u2019s murderous conflict with the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinians targeted and executed one-by-one by Israeli snipers had gathered to demand their right of return to their lands and homes inside the rest of Palestine, from the coastal plain up to and including Jerusalem.\u00a0 They or their parents or grandparents were driven from their homes during the Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 for the simple reason that they are not Jewish: too many non-Jews in the putative Jewish state would not make for much of a Jewish state after all. \u00a0(\u201cThere could be no Jewish state with a large and hostile Arab minority in its midst.\u00a0 There would be no such state.\u00a0 It would not be able to exist,\u201d the Israeli historian Benny Morris bluntly pointed out in an interview justifying ethnic cleansing with the newspaper\u00a0<em>Ha\u2019aretz<\/em>\u00a0in 2004; \u201ca Jewish state would&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/05\/16\/kill-and-kill-and-kill\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Jordi Bernabeu Farr\u00fas | CC BY 2.0 Two spectacles unfolded in Palestine on Monday.\u00a0 In Gaza, Israeli army snipers shot and killed 58 Palestinians\u2014including six children\u2014and injured almost three thousand others amid scenes of smoke, fire, teargas, dust, agony and blood.\u00a0 At exactly the same time, to the tinkling of champagne glasses at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-361439","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\/361439","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}