{"id":25542,"date":"2018-05-15T21:10:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T01:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=25542"},"modified":"2018-05-15T21:10:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T01:10:20","slug":"empire-files-how-palestine-became-colonized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/05\/15\/empire-files-how-palestine-became-colonized\/","title":{"rendered":"Empire Files: How Palestine Became Colonized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>YouTube<\/em> has the video <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BT5L4YU_Fl4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Empire Files: How Palestine Became Colonized<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPreviewing Abby Martin\u2019s on-the-ground investigation in Palestine, The Empire Files looks at the long history of Zionist colonization, expansion and expulsion of Palestine\u2019s indigenous inhabitants. <\/p>\n<p>Giving critical historical context the occupation today, this timeline explores the creation of the state of Israel and how it came to cover so much land since. From the early settlements, to the Nakba, to it\u2019s conquest of the West Bank, Abby Martin reveals the brutally honest root of what is behind the so-called \u201cIsrael-Palestine conflict.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/BT5L4YU_Fl4?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Previously I blogged about a book review <a href=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/07\/14\/the-state-of-israel-my-promised-land-by-ari-shavit\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The State of Israel \u2018My Promised Land,\u2019 by Ari Shavit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, I did get to read the book on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jacques.benkoski\/posts\/10152184972791161?comment_id=10152186664896161&#038;offset=0&#038;total_comments=6\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suggestion of a former friend<\/a> who thought I was being too harsh on Israel.  When I read the book by an Israeli journalist and grandson of one of the founders of Zionism, I was introduced to more horrific facts about the founding of Israel than I had been aware of.  From  what I remember from the book, this video by Abby Martin is accurate.  She is not spouting Palestinian propaganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has the video Empire Files: How Palestine Became Colonized. Previewing Abby Martin\u2019s on-the-ground investigation in Palestine, The Empire Files looks at the long history of Zionist colonization, expansion and expulsion of Palestine\u2019s indigenous inhabitants. Giving critical historical context the occupation today, this timeline explores the creation of the state of Israel and how it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25543,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25542\/revisions\/25543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}