{"id":3799,"date":"2015-12-23T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-28T18:51:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:51:43","slug":"epalestine-this-is-what-being-drunk-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2015\/12\/epalestine-this-is-what-being-drunk-on\/","title":{"rendered":"This is what being drunk on power looks like."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CWyI_01XAAEIHcN-701595-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"599\" height=\"394\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CWyI_01XAAEIHcN-701595-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3800\" style=\"width:821px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mobile-photo wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CWyI_uuWIAAi41j-704385-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"804\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CWyI_uuWIAAi41j-704385-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3801\" style=\"width:815px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mobile-photo wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is what being drunk on power looks like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The collapse of slavery in the U.S., Apartheid in South Africa, and the Berlin Wall in Germany is what it will ultimately feel like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Israeli Embassy Trolls White House, Exclusively Gifts Settlement Goods<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All of this year&#8217;s presents were made in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">12\/22\/2015 01:47 pm ET<br><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jessica Schulberg Foreign Affairs Reporter, The Huffington Post<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/israel-gifts-settlement-products_56798d78e4b06fa6887edc5c\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/israel-gifts-settlement-products_56798d78e4b06fa6887edc5c<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what being drunk on power looks like. The collapse of slavery in the U.S., Apartheid in South Africa, and the Berlin Wall in Germany is what it will ultimately feel like. Israeli Embassy Trolls White House, Exclusively Gifts Settlement Goods All of this year&#8217;s presents were made in the occupied West Bank and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[503,117,504,505],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-israeli-embassy","tag-israeli-settlements-settlers-and-settler-colonialism","tag-ron-dermer","tag-white-house"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"Sam Bahour (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as <a href=\"https:\/\/aim.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder &amp; Emeritus Member of <a href=\"http:\/\/a4vpe.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at <a href=\"https:\/\/justvision.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/1994\/10\/homeland-oral-histories-of-palestine-and-palestinians-book-recommended\" rel=\"noopener\">HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamBahour\" rel=\"noopener\">@SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6695,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions\/6695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}