{"id":18042,"date":"2013-02-04T09:14:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T17:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=18042"},"modified":"2013-02-04T09:14:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T17:14:28","slug":"hagel-was-right-the-first-time-israel-treats-palestinians-like-caged-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/04\/hagel-was-right-the-first-time-israel-treats-palestinians-like-caged-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Hagel Was Right the First Time: Israel Treats Palestinians Like Caged Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many statements Chuck Hagel meekly recanted during his confirmation hearings last week was his comment that\u00a0there is \u201cno justification for Israel to keep the Palestinians caged up like animals.\u201d Republican Senator Mike Lee asked Hagel if he stood by that language, to which Hagel replied, &#8220;No, if I had an opportunity to edit that, like many things I&#8217;ve said, I would &#8211; I would like to go back and change the words and the meaning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But of course, Israel does keep the Palestinians caged up like animals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2013\/02\/israeli-soldier-checkpoint.html\">Mondoweiss<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/the-truth-the-senate-cant-bear-to-hear\/\">via Scott McConnell<\/a>) posts a short clip from the 2003 documentary &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0391857\/\">Checkpoint<\/a>&#8221; in which Israeli soldiers can be seen describing this fact explicitly.\u00a0\u201cAnimals. Like the Discovery Channel. All of Ramallah is a jungle,&#8221; says one.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QorJMPtz1Fw\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can find similar talk throughout Israel&#8217;s occupation. As\u00a0Israeli military leader and politician\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Moshe_Dayan\">Moshhe Dayan said<\/a>\u00a0following the 1967 Six Day War: \u201cWe don\u2019t have a solution, and you will continue living like dogs, and whoever wants will go, and will see how this procedure will work out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many statements Chuck Hagel meekly recanted during his confirmation hearings last week was his comment that\u00a0there is \u201cno justification for Israel to keep the Palestinians caged up like animals.\u201d Republican Senator Mike Lee asked Hagel if he stood by that language, to which Hagel replied, &#8220;No, if I had an opportunity to edit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-18042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18044,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18042\/revisions\/18044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18042"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}