{"id":4719,"date":"2013-03-03T10:48:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T15:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4719"},"modified":"2013-03-03T10:48:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T15:48:46","slug":"thems-fighting-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4719","title":{"rendered":"Them&#8217;s fighting words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatekeepersfilm.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4720\" alt=\"gatekeepers\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/gatekeepers.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/gatekeepers.jpg 320w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/gatekeepers-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a>Israel&#8217;s occupation of Palestinian territories continues. Nothing infuriates those who believe this occupation is necessary than words like these:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We&#8217;ve become&#8230; cruel. The future is bleak. It&#8217;s dark, the future. Where does it lead? To a change in the people&#8217;s character <\/em>[&#8230;]<em> it&#8217;s a brutal occupation force, similar to the Germans in World War II.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>or these:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[W]<em>e win every battle, but we lose the war.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>or these:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>One man&#8217;s terrorist is another man&#8217;s freedom fighter.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You might be forgiven if you thought these quotes are from left-wing or Islamist radicals, but that is not the case. These are words uttered by former heads of Israel&#8217;s internal security service, the Sin Bet. Avraham Shalom, Ami Ayalon, Yuval Diskin and three other former leaders of this organization appear in a new Oscar-nominated Israeli documentary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatekeepersfilm.com\/\">The Gatekeepers<\/a>. (Looks like a must-see.)<\/p>\n<p>I admire their ability to think clearly and their moral courage to make these comments public. I know Mr. Netanyahu is not listening&#8230; but I hope some other leaders in Israel are.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4719' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s occupation of Palestinian territories continues. Nothing infuriates those who believe this occupation is necessary than words like these: &#8220;We&#8217;ve become&#8230; cruel. The future is bleak. It&#8217;s dark, the future. Where does it lead? To a change in the people&#8217;s character [&#8230;] it&#8217;s a brutal occupation force, similar to the Germans in World War II.&#8221; <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4719' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4723,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions\/4723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}