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Regardless of one’s assumptions regarding the various factions involved in the Palestinian protests and Israeli Army live fire response last Friday, the idea that not only is the Israel Army steadfastly refusing (with PM Netanyahu’s support) any sort of investigation of the shootings that left 18 dead, but the US government blocked even a symbolic Security Council resolution calling for an investigation and the right of peaceful protest, is appalling.<\/p>\n


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\nFor Israel, there\u2019s little political cost to killing Palestinians – The Washington Post<\/a><\/span>
\nThe violence highlighted the desperation of Palestinians and the impunity with which Israel can snuff out their lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Regardless of one’s assumptions regarding the various factions involved in the Palestinian protests and Israeli Army live fire response last Friday, the idea that not only is the Israel Army steadfastly refusing (with PM Netanyahu’s support) any sort of investigation of the shootings that left 18 dead, but the US government blocked even a symbolic … Continue reading “For dark things cannot stand the light”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10,349,380,378,1071],"tags":[192,654,1476],"class_list":["post-136029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-military","category-nationalism-exceptionalism","category-intolerance-persecution","category-trump","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-palestine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bad-Friday.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4499,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/20\/blast.html","url_meta":{"origin":136029,"position":0},"title":"Blast","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 20-Aug-03 8:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't usually comment on the Israeli\/Palestinian conflict, just because it's wildly self-evident to me that whatever heavy-handedness and injustice has been committed by Israel and its army in the...","rel":"","context":"In "Geopolitical Brouhaha"","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7415,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/10\/weak_minds_yeah.html","url_meta":{"origin":136029,"position":1},"title":"Weak minds. 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