{"id":17856,"date":"2023-11-25T13:10:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T20:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=17856"},"modified":"2023-11-25T13:11:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T20:11:27","slug":"the-best-take-on-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-that-ive-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/the-best-take-on-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-that-ive-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"The best take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that I&#8217;ve heard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is, by far, the best take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that I&#8217;ve heard. It&#8217;s between a Jew and a Palestinian, but both of them are converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which means that they&#8217;re less interested in winning a debate and more interested in coming to a common understanding, even though they are approaching it from completely opposite sides. It also means that they&#8217;re willing to say things that the hardliners on both sides of the conflict would consider heretical, and own up to their own side&#8217;s mistakes and shortcomings. Really fascinating stuff, with none of the bloviating lies, manipulative gaslighting, or emotional hyperbole that characterizes so much coverage of the conflict these days. You&#8217;ll probably get more out of it if you&#8217;re a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but even if you&#8217;re not, I highly recommend giving it a listen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZBMfmqaqskQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is, by far, the best take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that I&#8217;ve heard. It&#8217;s between a Jew and a Palestinian, but both of them are converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which means that they&#8217;re less interested in winning a debate and more interested in coming to a common understanding,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/the-best-take-on-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-that-ive-heard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The best take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that I&#8217;ve heard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[457,1636,1655,1703,1151,1634],"class_list":["post-17856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-current-events","tag-cwic-media","tag-geopolitics","tag-israel","tag-religion","tag-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-4E0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17858,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17856\/revisions\/17858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}