{"id":352,"date":"2007-06-16T20:59:45","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T19:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2007\/06\/16\/the_secret_of_israels_success"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:58:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:58:52","slug":"the_secret_of_israels_success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2007\/06\/16\/the_secret_of_israels_success","title":{"rendered":"The secret of Israel&#8217;s success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi Klein (of <em>No Logo<\/em> fame) has an article in today&#39;s <em>Guardian<\/em> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/story\/0,,2104440,00.html\">current success of Israel&#39;s economy<\/a>, apparently despite its present &quot;difficulties&quot; and having lost out after the &quot;dot com&quot; bubble burst in 2000.  Klein&#39;s thesis is that this success is because of the Palestinian situation rather than because of it: Israel is able to sell the world weaponry already field-tested on the population it occupies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi Klein (of No Logo fame) has an article in today&#39;s Guardian about the current success of Israel&#39;s economy, apparently despite its present &quot;difficulties&quot; and having lost out after the &quot;dot com&quot; bubble burst&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3792],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-5G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42039,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/42039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}