{"id":1096,"date":"2014-09-09T21:14:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T21:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2014-09-09T21:14:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T21:14:49","slug":"kerry-ann-mendoza-on-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/09\/09\/kerry-ann-mendoza-on-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry-ann Mendoza on Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SIa9iVbilFk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scriptonitedaily.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kerry-ann Mendoza<\/a> gives a brilliant interview here &#8211; some key points are:<\/p>\n<p>1. The attacks on Gaza are effectively an ongoing genocide not a war.<br \/>\n2. The ineffective Hamas rocket attacks are the only way the Palestinians in Gaza had to engage the Israelis and the attention of the world and get some concessions<br \/>\n3. There is no moral equivalence between the two sides, Israel is an occupying and oppressing power. As far a right to defend themselves exists it is the Palestinians who have that need and that right.<br \/>\n4. The &#8216;two state&#8217; solution is not going to happen and everybody knows it. There is no Palestine there is only Israel in which Palestinian people are disenfranchised and discriminated against.<br \/>\n5. It is laughable to call Israel &#8216;the only democracy in the Middle East&#8217; it cannot be a Jewish state and a democratic state.<br \/>\n6. The only just solution lies in a secular state with equal rights for all its inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>What Kerry-ann says is rational and obviously true but we don&#8217;t often hear the truth articulated so plainly. Cenk Uygur is a largely sympathetic interviewer but he still tries to frame the conflict as one in which both sides are to blame, to some extent, for the intractability of the situation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerry-ann Mendoza gives a brilliant interview here &#8211; some key points are: 1. The attacks on Gaza are effectively an ongoing genocide not a war. 2. The ineffective Hamas rocket attacks are the only way the Palestinians in Gaza had to engage the Israelis and the attention of the world and get some concessions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/09\/09\/kerry-ann-mendoza-on-gaza\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,105,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}