{"id":185665,"date":"2021-05-31T07:45:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T07:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=203259"},"modified":"2021-05-31T07:45:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T07:45:16","slug":"the-big-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/31\/the-big-con\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because Palestinians resisted having their lands and homes stolen by Israelis, its Zionist government inflicted yet another in their series of murderous assaults on that captive, victim people.\u00a0 This barbarity it pretends to justify on grounds of \u201cself defense\u201d. Though a child can see through the blatant dishonesty of that absurd claim, American media can\u2019t.\u00a0  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/31\/the-big-con-2\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/31\/the-big-con-2\/\">The Big Con<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\"><br>\r\nThis content originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/31\/the-big-con-2\/\" >CounterPunch.org<\/a> and was authored by Paul Edwards.  <br><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/05\/31\/the-big-con\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because Palestinians resisted having their lands and homes stolen by Israelis, its Zionist government inflicted yet another in their series of murderous assaults on that captive, victim people.\u00a0 This barbarity it pretends to justify on grounds of \u201cself&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185688,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185665\/revisions\/185688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}