{"id":383,"date":"2014-08-15T14:49:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T14:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/?p=383"},"modified":"2014-08-15T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T14:49:51","slug":"fiction-commentary-israel-palestine-the-kingdom-of-the-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/2014\/08\/15\/fiction-commentary-israel-palestine-the-kingdom-of-the-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiction commentary, Israel &#8211; Palestine: The Kingdom Of The Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Debates surrounding the Israel &#8211; Palestine conflict are often blighted by ideological thinking. More frequently than I would like I have encountered people willing to defend the indefensible. The indiscriminate killing of innocent citizens, including children, is excused and crassly chalked off as &#8220;proportional defense&#8221;. Even some going as far as claiming there were no citizens in the conflict, making every man, woman, and child a legitimate target. Both sides are guilty of it to some extent, however, it is only Israel that receives unconditional support from some Western governments, especially the US.<\/p>\n<p>In a work of fiction commentary,<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BoyceWP\"> William Boyce<\/a> has taken the Israel &#8211; Palestine conflict and transplanted it into the Sci-Fi realm. By doing so it allows us to view the conflict more objectively while also providing a very enjoyable read. It&#8217;s a short story so can be read in one sitting and is well worth doing so. PDF is linked below.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/files\/2014\/08\/TheKingdomOfTheBlind.pdf\">The Kingdom Of The Blind<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debates surrounding the Israel &#8211; Palestine conflict are often blighted by ideological thinking. More frequently than I would like I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humanisticas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}