{"id":107,"date":"2005-08-19T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2005-08-19T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-19T23:17:00","slug":"they-dont-say-this-on-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/19\/they-dont-say-this-on-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"They Don&#039;t Say This on CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knows the history of Palestine\/Israel in the 20th century knows of the many untruths which are spread through the media.  One reality is that some of the land that &#8220;belongs to the Palestinians&#8221; was actually owned by Jews long before 1948 or 1967.  From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news.php3?id=88111\">Arutz-7<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jews originally bought land in what is now the area of Kfar Darom 100 years ago,  but the small Jewish presence there was destroyed during the Arab riots of  1936-39. Several years later, Kibbutz Kfar Darom was established by none other  than David Ben-Gurion, who set up eleven communities for the purpose of  populating the Negev. The Egyptians attacked it mercilessly during the War of  Independence in 1948, and though it staved off several attacks, Kfar Darom was  finally abandoned in July 1949.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The same can be said for many &#8220;occupied&#8221; places throughout the West Bank.  But you&#8217;ll never hear that on CNN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knows the history of Palestine\/Israel in the 20th century knows of the many untruths which are spread through the media. One reality is that some of the land that &#8220;belongs to the Palestinians&#8221; was actually owned by Jews long before 1948 or 1967. From Arutz-7: Jews originally bought land in what is now\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/19\/they-dont-say-this-on-cnn\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}