{"id":9999,"date":"2018-10-15T11:25:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T09:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/10\/15\/are-israeli-settlements-the-barrier-to-peace"},"modified":"2019-03-23T21:29:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T19:29:43","slug":"are-israeli-settlements-the-barrier-to-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/10\/15\/are-israeli-settlements-the-barrier-to-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Israeli Settlements the Barrier to Peace?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dhbCtAz_BQc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>Created by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prageru.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PragerU<\/a>, a Conservative American educational non-profit organization,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8EDW88CBo-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this video (04:32)<\/a>\u00a0challenges the commonly held view that Israel&#8217;s\u00a0policy of building civilian communities in the West Bank is the reason there is no peace agreement with the Palestinians. Although he personally opposes the settlement movement, Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard professor and legal scholar, claims that Israel has the right to a military occupation in the West Bank, according to international law. He argues that the root of the conflict lies in the unwillingness of Palestinian leaders to accept Israel&#8217;s right to exist as the nation-state\u00a0of the Jewish people, citing terrorism prior to the settlement movement and increased terrorism following Israel&#8217;s 2005 withdrawal from the West Bank.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Created by PragerU, a Conservative American educational non-profit organization,\u00a0this video (04:32)\u00a0challenges the commonly held view that Israel&#8217;s\u00a0policy of building civilian communities in the West Bank is the reason there is no peace agreement with the Palestinians. Although he personally opposes the settlement movement, Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard professor and legal scholar, claims that Israel has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":10000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2550,2810,2554],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999\/"}],"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=9999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12881,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999\/revisions\/12881\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10000\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=9999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=9999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=9999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}