{"id":274520,"date":"2023-10-15T07:04:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T07:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274520"},"modified":"2023-10-16T06:52:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T06:52:30","slug":"why-i-no-longer-stand-with-israel-and-never-will-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274520","title":{"rendered":"Why I no longer stand with Israel, and never will again"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Scott Ritter \u2013 scottritterextra.com Oct 14, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Gates of Gaza<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cThe attackers came at dawn, quickly occupying the town. The men were separated from the women and shot. One of the attackers, opening the door of one of the homes, found an old man standing there. He shot him. \u2018He enjoyed shooting him,\u2019 an eyewitness to the attack said afterwards.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Soon the town was empty\u2014the entire population of 5,000 had either been killed or expelled, those who survived put on trucks, and driven to Gaza. The empty homes were looted. \u2018We were very happy,\u2019 one of the participants said afterwards. \u2018If you don\u2019t take it, someone else will. You don\u2019t feel you have to give it back. They were not coming back.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It sounds like a narrative torn from the front pages of today\u2019s newspapers, one of many such stories\u2014too many to count\u2014describing the atrocities inflicted on the civilian populations of Israeli towns and Kibbutzes adjacent to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>But it is not. Instead, it is the recollections of Yaakov Sharett, the son of Moshe Sharett, one of the fathers of Israel, a signatory to Israel\u2019s Declaration of Independence, and Israel\u2019s first Foreign Minister, and second Prime Minister. Yaakov Sharett was recounting the seizure of the Arab town of Bersheeba, in 1948, by Israeli soldiers, during Israel\u2019s War of Independence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottritterextra.com\/p\/why-i-no-longer-stand-with-israel\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S Marine Intelligence officer and UN Weapons Inspector, Scott Ritter explains why his view of the Palestinian\/Israeli conflict has changed irrevocably <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":274522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274524,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274520\/revisions\/274524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/274522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}