{"id":257883,"date":"2026-08-20T15:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/257883\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:37:12","slug":"its-not-just-violence-israel-is-crushing-the-palestinian-economy-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/257883\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Just Violence: Israel Is Crushing the Palestinian Economy Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">After nearly three years of masked Jewish settlers assaulting Palestinians, burning homes and farm fields, and besieging villages, the rising violence in the West Bank has finally captured the world&#8217;s attention and has even made some Israelis uncomfortable. But the chaos represents only half of a wider effort, led by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in his second and more important role as the effective minister of the West Bank, to make life miserable for West Bank Palestinians. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After nearly three years of masked Jewish settlers assaulting Palestinians, burning homes and farm fields, and besieging villages,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[10856,41,1412,37,1685,2742,17077,6905],"class_list":["post-257883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-annexation","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-bezalel-smotrich","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine","tag-israeli-politics","tag-palestinian-authority","tag-west-bank"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117128583006788644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}