{"id":3928,"date":"2014-07-04T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-08T19:58:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T17:58:22","slug":"epalestine-opendemocracy-israels-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2014\/07\/epalestine-opendemocracy-israels-self\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenDemocracy: Israel&#8217;s self constructed image is crumbling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenDemocracy<\/p>\n<p>July 4, 2014<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Israel&#8217;s self constructed image is crumbling <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Sam Bahour<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" height=\"306\" src=\"httpss:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/north-africa-west-asia\/israels-self-constructed-image-is-crumbling\/\" width=\"460\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"image-caption\">July 3, 2014.&nbsp;Palestinians inspect damages<br \/>\nfollowing overnight Israeli air strike, in Gaza City. Nine Palestinians<br \/>\nwere wounded. Demotix\/Yazan Majdi. All rights reserved.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;The reignited  cycle of violence in Palestine and Israel provides the Israeli government with  exactly what it has been begging for months for, violence. However, for once,  Israel may be facing a new fact of life\u2014as the sole military power in the  conflict, it has the full ability to start a widespread campaign of violence,  but it may no longer be the party who single-handedly decides how it ends. This  particular round of violence has the potential to surprisingly end with  political progress towards peace.<\/p>\n<p>If this new, heartbreaking round of violence is what finally brings an end to  the 46 years of Israeli military occupation, then the 11 Israelis and  Palestinians who so brutally lost their lives this past two weeks would not  have died in vain.<\/p>\n<p>READ ON AND COMMENT AT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/north-africa-west-asia\/israels-self-constructed-image-is-crumbling\/\">https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/north-africa-west-asia\/israels-self-constructed-image-is-crumbling\/<\/a><span class=\"\"><\/span><\/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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenDemocracy July 4, 2014 Israel&#8217;s self constructed image is crumbling By Sam Bahour July 3, 2014.&nbsp;Palestinians inspect damages following overnight Israeli air strike, in Gaza City. Nine Palestinians were wounded. Demotix\/Yazan Majdi. All rights reserved. &nbsp;The reignited cycle of violence in Palestine and Israel provides the Israeli government with exactly what it has been begging [&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":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[942],"tags":[655,656,117,158,980],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sams-writings","tag-conflict","tag-international-politics","tag-israeli-settlements-settlers-and-settler-colonialism","tag-occupied-territories","tag-united-states-of-america-usa"],"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","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928","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=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10083,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/10083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}