{"id":283302,"date":"2024-12-23T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=283302"},"modified":"2024-12-22T05:44:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T05:44:19","slug":"crippling-dysfunction-catastrophe-for-the-palestinians-and-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/12\/crippling-dysfunction-catastrophe-for-the-palestinians-and-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Crippling Dysfunction: Catastrophe for the Palestinians and the Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>17 Dec 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Zionist project to overthrow the Assad regime through slow economic strangulation was decades in the making, says Chris Hedges. No wonder Netanyahu rejoiced.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"INTERVIEW: Catastrophe for the Palestinians and the region\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iOTfeQ2ACIE?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 class=\"western\"><i>George Galloway has been a member of the British Parliament for nearly 30 years. He presents TV and radio shows and is a film-maker, writer and a renowned orator and activist.<\/i><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 Dec 2024 &#8211; The Zionist project to overthrow the Assad regime through slow economic strangulation was decades in the making, says Chris Hedges. No wonder Netanyahu rejoiced.<\/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":[3143,2642,87,865,88,2097,767,427,413,70],"class_list":["post-283302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-anti-hegemony","tag-anti-imperialism","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-palestine","tag-syria","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283302","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=283302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283303,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283302\/revisions\/283303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}