{"id":289252,"date":"2025-03-10T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=289252"},"modified":"2025-03-06T05:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T05:36:54","slug":"the-five-excuses-for-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/03\/the-five-excuses-for-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Five Excuses for Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>4 Mar 2025 &#8211; <em>Yesterday I <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/davidswanson.org\/talk-world-radio-i-debate-gaza-with-aipac-executive-committee-member\/\" >interviewed<\/a> a member of the Executive Committee of AIPAC. I asked him how he could defend and promote apartheid and genocide. He was not a legal witness; I could not order him not to change the subject. Still, he provided pretty clear (if very weak) excuses for genocide, which I think can be broken up into five types.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Excuses_Genocide.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-289253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Excuses_Genocide-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Excuses_Genocide-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Excuses_Genocide-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Excuses_Genocide-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Excuses_Genocide-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Excuses_Genocide.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/worldbeyondwar.org\/the-five-excuses-for-genocide\/\" >TO READ FULL TEXT Go to Original &#8211; worldbeyondwar.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 Mar 2025 &#8211; Yesterday I interviewed a member of the Executive Committee of AIPAC and asked him how he could defend and promote apartheid and genocide. He provided pretty clear (if very weak) excuses for genocide, which can be broken into five types.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":289253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1859,1854,1199,87,865,88,2414,427,70,965,1025],"class_list":["post-289252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","tag-aipac","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-israeli-apartheid","tag-palestine","tag-usa","tag-war-crimes","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289252","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=289252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289255,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289252\/revisions\/289255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}