{"id":363985,"date":"2018-06-04T10:50:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T09:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-great-march-of-zionist-hypocrisy\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T10:50:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T09:50:42","slug":"the-great-march-of-zionist-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-great-march-of-zionist-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great March of Zionist Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>The Great March of Return is a startling, powerful expression of Palestinian identity and resistance. Thousands of Palestinians have come out, bravely and unapologetically, to say: \u201cWe refuse to remain invisible. We reject any attempt to assign us to the discard pile of history. We will exercise our fundamental right <em>to go home<\/em>.\u201d They have done this unarmed, in the face of Israel\u2019s use of deadly armed force against targets (children, press, medics) deliberately chosen to demonstrate the Jewish state\u2019s unapologetic determination to force them back into submissive exile by any means necessary. By doing this repeatedly over the last few weeks, these incredibly brave men, women, and children have done more than decades of essays and books to strip the aura of virtue from Zionism that\u2019s befogged Western liberals\u2019 eyes for 70 years.<\/p>\n<p>What the Israelis have done over the past few weeks\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/imemc.org\/article\/health-ministry-israeli-army-killed-112-palestinians-injured13190-since-march-30th\/\">killing<\/a> at least 112and wounding over 13,000people (332 with life-threatening injuries and 27 requiring amputation)\u2014is a historical crime that stands alongside the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sharpeville_massacre\">Sharpeville Massacre<\/a> (69 killed), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bloody_Sunday_(1972)\">Bloody Sunday<\/a> (14 killed), and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Birmingham_campaign#Fire_hoses_and_police_dogs\">Birmingham Fire Hoses and Police Dog Repression<\/a> as a defining moment in an ongoing struggle for justice and freedom. Like those events, this month\u2019s slaughter <em>may\u00a0<\/em>become a turning point for what John Pilger correctly <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/07\/10\/the-enduring-injustice-of-palestine\/\">calls<\/a> \u201cthe longest occupation and resistance in modern times\u201d\u2014the continuing, unfinished subjugation of the Palestinian people,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/06\/04\/sacrificing-gaza-the-great-march-of-zionist-hypocrisy\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great March of Return is a startling, powerful expression of Palestinian identity and resistance. Thousands of Palestinians have come out, bravely and unapologetically, to say: \u201cWe refuse to remain invisible. We reject any attempt to assign us to the discard pile of history. We will exercise our fundamental right to go home.\u201d They have [&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-363985","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\/363985","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=363985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}