{"id":1156,"date":"2023-10-12T22:07:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T05:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2026-03-07T21:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T05:58:07","slug":"the-root-of-violence-is-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/the-root-of-violence-is-oppression\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza: The root of violence is oppression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog from the Jewish Voices for Peace condemns the violence, mourns the lives lost, and provides a context for understanding the roots of the conflict in Israel and Gaza.\u00a0 The authors note that The bloodshed of today and the past 75 years traces back directly to U.S. complicity in the oppression and horror caused by Israel\u2019s military occupation.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org\/2023\/10\/statement23-10-07\/\">https:\/\/www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org\/2023\/10\/statement23-10-07\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another good resource is a brief, 100-year history of the Israel-Palestinian conflict by the Al-Jazeera newspaper staff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/10\/9\/whats-the-israel-palestine-conflict-about-a-simple-guide\">https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/10\/9\/whats-the-israel-palestine-conflict-about-a-simple-guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both articles are helpful to frame the nature of the conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog from the Jewish Voices for Peace condemns the violence, mourns the lives lost, and provides a context for understanding the roots of the conflict in Israel and Gaza.\u00a0 The authors note that The bloodshed of today and the past 75 years traces back directly to U.S. complicity in the oppression and horror caused by Israel\u2019s military occupation.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org\/2023\/10\/statement23-10-07\/ Another good resource is a brief, 100-year history of the Israel-Palestinian conflict by the Al-Jazeera newspaper staff. https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/10\/9\/whats-the-israel-palestine-conflict-about-a-simple-guide Both articles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[30,95,108,92,86,25,29,48,94,28],"media_type_reference":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-militarism","tag-apartheid","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-geopolitical","tag-human-rights-violations","tag-inequity","tag-militarism","tag-palestine","tag-racism","tag-stop-the-bloodshed","tag-structural-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1167,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions\/1167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"media_type_reference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type_reference?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}