{"id":5530,"date":"2009-01-03T13:12:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T18:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5530"},"modified":"2009-01-03T13:14:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T18:14:44","slug":"norman-finkelstein-on-gaza-james-petras-the-politics-of-an-israeli-extermination-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5530","title":{"rendered":"Norman Finkelstein on Gaza | James Petras: The Politics of an Israeli Extermination Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"414\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/tv.muxlim.com\/embed\/w4pIPMdpFPD\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_5532\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1230957460gaza_massacre_33.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5532\" data-attachment-id=\"5532\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?attachment_id=5532\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1230957460gaza_massacre_33.jpg?fit=400%2C300\" data-orig-size=\"400,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"gazamassacre\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Israel&#8217;s target list involves the total population.&#8217;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1230957460gaza_massacre_33.jpg?fit=300%2C225\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1230957460gaza_massacre_33.jpg?fit=400%2C300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1230957460gaza_massacre_33.jpg?resize=400%2C300\" alt=\"Israel&#039;s target list involves the total population.&#039;\" title=\"gazamassacre\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1230957460gaza_massacre_33.jpg?w=400 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1230957460gaza_massacre_33.jpg?resize=150%2C112 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1230957460gaza_massacre_33.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israel's target list involves the total population.'<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Politics of an Israeli Extermination Campaign<\/p>\n<p>By James Petras<\/p>\n<p>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because of the unconditional support of the entire political class in the US, from the White House to Congress, including both Parties, incoming and outgoing elected officials and all the principle print and electronic mass media, the Israeli Government feels no compunction in publicly proclaiming a detailed and graphic account of its policy of mass extermination of the population of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s sustained and comprehensive bombing campaign of every aspect of governance, civic institutions and society is directed toward destroying civilized life in Gaza. Israel\u2019s totalitarian vision is driven by the practice of a permanent purge of Arab Palestine informed by Zionism, an ethno-racist ideology, promulgated by the Jewish state and justified, enforced and pursued by its organized backers in the United States.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinechronicle.com\/view_article_details.php?id=14588\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Politics of an Israeli Extermination Campaign By James Petras Introduction Because of the unconditional support of the entire political class in the US, from the White House to Congress, including both Parties, incoming and outgoing elected officials and all &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=5530\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1rc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5530"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5538,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions\/5538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}