{"id":52838,"date":"2016-10-10T23:12:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T23:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52838"},"modified":"2016-10-10T23:12:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T23:12:30","slug":"official-israeli-satirical-view-of-the-crusaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52838","title":{"rendered":"Official Israeli (satirical) view of the Crusaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Camero<\/strong>n &#8212; ah yes, the Crusades of happy memory.. ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a screenshot from an Israeli government video portraying the history of the land of Israel:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Game-of-Thrones.png\" alt=\"game-of-thrones\" width=\"601\" height=\"339\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Game-of-Thrones.png 601w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Game-of-Thrones-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wanted to catch that crusader plunging his sword into the Israeli family&#8217;s widescreen TV in particular, with its <strong>Game of Thrones<\/strong> subtitle, just because I&#8217;m, well, so very hip to all that, never having seen an episode of GoT in my life.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>However, according to this <strong>WaPo<\/strong> story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2016\/10\/07\/israeli-government-releases-comic-video-dissing-assyrians-greeks-crusaders-arabs\/?postshare=8681476067517113&#038;tid=ss_tw-bottom\">A satirical \u2018history of the Jewish people\u2019 released by the Israeli government offends just about everyone<\/a>.. Oh?<\/p>\n<p>Here it is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WrBEImNCHFo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I myself am not offended on behalf of the Assyrians, the Greeks, the Arabs, the Crusaders, the British or for that matter the League of Nations \/ or UN. I just don&#8217;t think official governmental humor, even from Israel, measures up to, ah..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mjEcj8KpuJw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eh, what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; ah yes, the Crusades of happy memory.. ] . Here&#8217;s a screenshot from an Israeli government video portraying the history of the land of Israel: I wanted to catch that crusader plunging his sword into the Israeli family&#8217;s widescreen TV in particular, with its Game of Thrones subtitle, just because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,526,497,1419,627,371,635,1,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-crusades-crusaders","category-doublequotes","category-humor","category-israel","category-uncategorized","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52838"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52858,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52838\/revisions\/52858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}