{"id":9982,"date":"2018-10-16T10:24:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T08:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/10\/16\/this-land-is-mine-a-story-of-eternal-war-and-conquest"},"modified":"2018-12-31T11:53:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T09:53:19","slug":"this-land-is-mine-a-story-of-eternal-war-and-conquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/10\/16\/this-land-is-mine-a-story-of-eternal-war-and-conquest\/","title":{"rendered":"This Land Is Mine: A Story of Eternal War and Conquest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-evIyrrjTTY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>This <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-evIyrrjTTY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dramatic animated video<\/a> presents &#8220;This Land is Mine,&#8221; a song that tells the story of the wars in the Land of Israel\/Palestine, from prehistoric times until today. With a hopeful melody clashing with violent imagery, this video depicts caricatures of generation after generation of historical characters killing one another in order to conquer this land in the name of God. This clip is part of Nina Paley&#8217;s animated feature,Seder-Masochism, a retelling of\u00a0The Book of Exodus\u00a0as patriarchy emerging from goddess worship. Nina Paley is a Jewish American cartoonist and animator who is highly critical of Judaism and Zionism.\u00a0To see the artist&#8217;s explanation of this work and a guide to each of the characters, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ninapaley.com\/2012\/10\/01\/this-land-is-mine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit her blog<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;This Land is Mine&#8221; (Lyrics by Pat Boone, Sung by Andy Williams)<\/h2>\n<p>This land is mine<br \/>\nGod gave this land to me<\/p>\n<p>This brave and ancient land to me<br \/>\nAnd when the morning sun<br \/>\nReveals her hills and plains<br \/>\nThen I see a land<br \/>\nWhere children can run free.<\/p>\n<p>So take my hand<br \/>\nAnd walk this land with me<br \/>\nAnd walk this lovely land with me<\/p>\n<p>Tho&#8217; I am just a man<br \/>\nWhen you are by my side<br \/>\nWith the help of God<br \/>\nI know I can be strong.<\/p>\n<p>Tho&#8217; I am just a man<br \/>\nWhen you are by my side<br \/>\nWith the help of God<br \/>\nI know I can be strong.<\/p>\n<p>To make this land our home<br \/>\nIf I must fight I&#8217;ll fight to make this land our own.<\/p>\n<p>Until I die this land is mine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This dramatic animated video presents &#8220;This Land is Mine,&#8221; a song that tells the story of the wars in the Land of Israel\/Palestine, from prehistoric times until today. With a hopeful melody clashing with violent imagery, this video depicts caricatures of generation after generation of historical characters killing one another in order to conquer this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":9983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2604],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9982\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=9982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9982\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12819,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9982\/revisions\/12819\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9983\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=9982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=9982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=9982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}