{"id":1130,"date":"2005-10-27T17:38:20","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T21:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2005-10-27T17:38:20","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T21:38:20","slug":"many-people-support-the-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1130","title":{"rendered":"Many people support the idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/9DCD41A2-E372-4732-8F1A-411EC28F603D.htm\">Sunday 04 January 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A member of the Likud party has proposed &#8220;massive ethnic cleansing&#8221; of non-Jews in Palestine-Israel as a &#8220;final solution&#8221; of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Uzi Cohen, a member of Ariel Sharon&#8217;s right-wing party and a deputy mayor of the town of Raanana, told Israeli public radio on Sunday there was widespread support in Israel for &#8220;the idea of ethnic cleansing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many people support the idea but few are willing to speak about it publicly,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has so far been circumspect about the idea of banishing the Palestinians from their ancestral land.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, when members of his Likud party approached him with the idea, Sharon reportedly told them: &#8220;The international situation wouldn&#8217;t be conducive to expelling the Palestinians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/article.asp?edition_id=10&#038;categ_id=2&#038;article_id=19662#\">international community<\/a> was silent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even the great American democracy could not have been created without the annihilation of the Indians. There are cases in which the overall final good justifies harsh and cruel acts that are committed in the course of history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelblog.org\/Articles\/Right_of_reply.html\">Benny Morris<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 04 January 2004 A member of the Likud party has proposed &#8220;massive ethnic cleansing&#8221; of non-Jews in Palestine-Israel as a &#8220;final solution&#8221; of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Uzi Cohen, a member of Ariel Sharon&#8217;s right-wing party and a deputy mayor &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1130\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-ie","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}