{"id":3840,"date":"2015-06-25T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-04-20T23:12:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T20:12:50","slug":"epalestine-two-astounding-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2015\/06\/epalestine-two-astounding-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Two astounding journalists, one in 2015, the other in 1923"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haaretz<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>In Israel, we walk amongst killers and torturers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The harassment of the Al-Midan Theater stems from envy of our subjects&#8217; ability to overcome oppression, to think and create, in defiance of our image of them as inferior.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>By Amira Hass | Jun. 22, 2015<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2015-06-22\/ty-article\/walking-amongst-killers-and-torturers\/0000017f-e3dc-d568-ad7f-f3ff24ad0000\" alt=\"IDF detain a Palestinian during clashes in the Jalazone refugee camp, June 12, 2015.\" width=\"404\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In our homes, our streets and our places of work and entertainment, there are thousands of people who killed and tortured thousands of other people or supervised their killing and torture. I write &#8220;thousands&#8221; as a substitute for the vaguer &#8220;countless&#8221; \u2013 an expression for something that cannot be measured.<\/p>\n<p>READ ON AT:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/diplomacy-defense\/1.662364\">http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/diplomacy-defense\/1.662364<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>From Sam&#8217;s Facebook:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9061\" src=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/The-Palestine-Deception-1915-1923-2-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>The Palestine Deception, 1915\u20131923: The McMahon-Hussein Correspondence, the Balfour Declaration, and the Jewish National Home<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By: J. M. N. Jeffries<br \/>\nEdited by William M. Mathew<br \/>\nPublisher: Institute for Palestine Studies (2014)<\/strong><\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestine-studies.org\/books\/palestine-deception-1915%E2%80%931923-mcmahon-hussein-correspondence-balfour-declaration-and-jewish\">http:\/\/www.palestine-studies.org\/books\/palestine-deception-1915%E2%80%931923-mcmahon-hussein-correspondence-balfour-declaration-and-jewish<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever heard of the journalist J. M. N. Jeffries? Me neither. Before stating who he was, let me provide an analogy; he was the Amira Hass of the UK, speaking truth to power (and speaking truth to lies, many lies), just like Amira today! He reported from ground zero in Palestine and did not shy away from calling reality as he witnessed it.<\/p>\n<p>READ ON AT:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/sam-bahour\/on-the-palestine-deception-19151923-the-mcmahon-hussein-correspondence-the-balfo\/964077823623079?pnref=story\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/sam-bahour\/on-the-palestine-deception-19151923-the-mcmahon-hussein-correspondence-the-balfo\/964077823623079?pnref=story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Everything about this list:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/p>\n<p>To subscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p>\n<p>To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haaretz In Israel, we walk amongst killers and torturers The harassment of the Al-Midan Theater stems from envy of our subjects&#8217; ability to overcome oppression, to think and create, in defiance of our image of them as inferior. By Amira Hass | Jun. 22, 2015 In our homes, our streets and our places of work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[535,536,1149,537,539,181,1275],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amira-hass","tag-balfour-declaration","tag-british-mandate-for-palestine-1922-1948","tag-j-m-n-jeffries","tag-turkey","tag-uk","tag-zionism-zionists"],"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":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aim.ps\/\">Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour played a foundational role in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justvision.org\/\">Just Vision<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mas.ps\">The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour is the co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homeland-Oral-Histories-Palestine-Palestinians\/dp\/1566561329\/ref=la_B00HBW71SO_1_1\">Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2017\/06\/epalestine-kingdom-of-olives-and-ash\/\">Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/the-tallest-man-in-ramallah\/\">The Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamBahour\">@SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\">www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840","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=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9234,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions\/9234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}