{"id":275868,"date":"2024-09-30T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=275868"},"modified":"2024-09-28T10:09:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T09:09:39","slug":"the-looming-catastrophe-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/09\/the-looming-catastrophe-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"The Looming Catastrophe in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>28 Sep 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Chris Hedges Report with Gideon Levy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Looming Catastrophe in the Middle East (w\/ Gideon Levy) | The Chris Hedges Report\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MhMeiO35m9U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for\u00a0<\/em>The New York Times<em>,\u00a0where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief. He previously worked overseas for\u00a0<\/em>The Dallas Morning News,\u00a0The Christian Science Monitor, <em>and<\/em> NPR<em>. He used to be the host of the Emmy Award-nominated <\/em>RT America<em> show\u00a0<\/em>On Contact<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><i>Gideon Levy<\/i><i>\u00a0is a <\/i>Haaretz<i> columnist and a member of the newspaper&#8217;s editorial board. Levy joined <\/i>Haaretz <i>in 1982, and spent four years as the newspaper&#8217;s deputy editor. He was the recipient of the Euro-Med Journalist Prize for 2008; the Leipzig Freedom Prize in 2001; the Israeli Journalists\u2019 Union Prize in 1997; and The Association of Human Rights in Israel Award for 1996. His new book, <\/i>The Punishment of Gaza<i>, has just been published by Verso.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 Sep 2024 &#8211; The Chris Hedges Report with Gideon Levy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[3287,1778,87,865,1643,3264,88,2552,2097,771,427,2497,1025,886],"class_list":["post-275868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-anti-zionism","tag-conflict-analysis","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-genocide-convention","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-jews","tag-lebanon","tag-nakba","tag-palestine","tag-palestinians","tag-west-bank","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275869,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275868\/revisions\/275869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}