{"id":25115,"date":"2018-12-13T10:05:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T15:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25115"},"modified":"2018-12-13T17:34:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T22:34:15","slug":"quote-of-the-day-israels-right-to-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25115\/quote-of-the-day-israels-right-to-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Notable Quote:  Israel&#8217;s Right to Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a brilliant primer entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/refute-palestinian-lies-to-promote-mideast-peace-1544139570?mod=itp_wsj&amp;ru=yahoo\">&#8220;Refute Palestinian Lies to Promote Mideast Peace&#8221;<\/a> in <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, Max Singer refutes a persistent myth that the United States must work to refute:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[D]espite widespread use of the term in diplomatic documents and debate, there is no such thing as &#8216;occupied Palestinian territory&#8217; because there has never been a Palestinian territory to occupy.\u00a0 As some Palestinians point out, they have never had a state of their own.\u00a0 This is far more than a game of semantics.\u00a0 If the land was Palestinian, then Israel could have stolen it.\u00a0 If the land isn&#8217;t Palestinian, then Israel couldn&#8217;t have stolen it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s critical that the U.S. actively combat the falsehood that Israel exists on stolen Palestinian land.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a brilliant primer entitled &#8220;Refute Palestinian Lies to Promote Mideast Peace&#8221; in The Wall Street Journal, Max Singer refutes a persistent myth that the United States must work to refute: [D]espite widespread use of the term in diplomatic documents and debate, there is no such thing as &#8216;occupied Palestinian territory&#8217; because there has never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[386,4900],"class_list":["post-25115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-israel","tag-palestinians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25118,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25115\/revisions\/25118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}