{"id":45868,"date":"2014-07-21T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45868"},"modified":"2014-07-21T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T16:40:08","slug":"death-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45868","title":{"rendered":"Death Cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the lulls between Palestinian\/Israeli combat, I sometimes forget how very, very depressed I get at how very ill-informed Americans are about the recent history of the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve even seen relatively intelligent acquaintances of mine claim that both sides, Palestinian and Israeli, are morally equal.\u00a0 One trumpeted &#8220;both sides are run by extremists!&#8221;, by way of excusing the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to link to this piece by Dennis Prager &#8211; the best, simplest explanation of the last seventy years I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8EDW88CBo-8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Israelis want to have a state.\u00a0 The Palestinians want the Jews dead&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There is no moral equivalence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the lulls between Palestinian\/Israeli combat, I sometimes forget how very, very depressed I get at how very ill-informed Americans are about the recent history of the Middle East. I&#8217;ve even seen relatively intelligent acquaintances of mine claim that both sides, Palestinian and Israeli, are morally equal.\u00a0 One trumpeted &#8220;both sides are run by extremists!&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,9,73,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror","category-western-civilization","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45870,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45868\/revisions\/45870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}