{"id":85135,"date":"2025-08-18T07:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=85135"},"modified":"2025-08-18T09:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T08:39:08","slug":"how-bad-are-things-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/08\/18\/how-bad-are-things-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"How bad are things in Gaza?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This tweet is staggering:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-85136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1680-550x543.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1680-550x543.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1680-304x300.jpeg 304w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1680-768x758.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1680-405x400.jpeg 405w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1680.jpeg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>We are used to crises, conflicts, wars and their consequences. I wish that were not the case, but they have happened throughout my life, and maybe they always will.<\/p>\n<p>However, Gaza is nothing like the others. This is genocide by a member of the military industrial complex against a population almost entirely without support, and the result is literally deadly.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s not pretend that what the Israeli government is doing isn't an assault on human life itself.<\/p>\n<p>We should all be hurting with the people of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>We should all be condemning Israel.<\/p>\n<p>We should all demand an end to this onslaught, genocide and ethnic cleansing.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, our government is still actively supporting the Israeli government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tweet is staggering: We are used to crises, conflicts, wars and their consequences. I wish that were not the case, but they have happened<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/08\/18\/how-bad-are-things-in-gaza\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,14,16,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-of-aggression","category-corruption","category-ethics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85160,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85135\/revisions\/85160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}