{"id":204288,"date":"2024-01-10T18:59:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T22:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=204288"},"modified":"2024-01-10T18:59:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T22:59:42","slug":"balls-of-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=204288","title":{"rendered":"<h1>Balls of Steel<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>READ HERE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/mwhitney\/balls-of-steel\/\">https:\/\/www.unz.com\/mwhitney\/balls-of-steel\/<\/a><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 id=\"p_1_2\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">There are 120 members in the Israeli Knesset, but one man towers above them all. His name is Ofer Cassif, and he is, perhaps, the most despised man in Israel. His crime\u2014if you can call it that\u2014is that he put his moral convictions into practice by signing a petition in support of \u201cthe upcoming hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague\u201d\u2026 \u201caccusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.\u201d (<em><a title=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/israeli-lawmaker-signs-petition-supporting-hague-genocide-hearings-on-gaza-war\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/israeli-lawmaker-signs-petition-supporting-hague-genocide-hearings-on-gaza-war\/\">Times of Israel<\/a><\/em>) Here\u2019s what he said:<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><strong><strong><span class=\"contents\">\u201cMy constitutional duty is to Israeli society and all its residents, not to a government whose members and its coalition are calling for ethnic cleansing and even actual genocide.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}