{"id":11924,"date":"2009-12-06T11:44:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T16:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11924"},"modified":"2009-12-06T11:54:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T16:54:05","slug":"raja-chemayel-las-vegas-jerusalem-and-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11924","title":{"rendered":"Raja Chemayel: Las Vegas, Jerusalem and Venice&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I present an excerpt from Raja Chemayel&#8217;s poem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And out of nostalgia for occupation and for discrimination and for evictions<br \/>\nand for check-points and for prisons and for deprivations,<br \/>\nI am sure that Hollywood could provide some actors dressed as Arabs<br \/>\nand the Jewish-tourist could shoot on them, or demolish their houses,<br \/>\nor drive a Bulldozer over their graves&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\nalso they could undress them at some check-points.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In response to the following announcement:<br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globes.co.il\/serveen\/globes\/DocView.asp?did=1000519560&#038;fid=1725\">Spielberg to make docudrama at Jerusalem hospital; Emmy Award-winning producer Phil Rosenthal will direct<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Las Vegas, Jerusalem and Venice&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\nby <a href=\"http:\/\/frustratedarabdiary.blogspot.com\/\">Raja Chemayel<\/a><br \/>\nposted to <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/Al-Awda\/\">Al-Awda YAHOO! Group<\/a> on 5 December 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>All this in the USA !!&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Recently the city of Las Vegas has replicated<br \/>\npractically most of the ancient city of Venice<\/p>\n<p>This way an American tourist could visit Venice<br \/>\nwithout leaving the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Also there is a copy of the Eiffel Tower<br \/>\nin Las Vegas, too&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p>What if the City of Las Vegas would copy<br \/>\nthe Old-Jerusalem-City??<\/p>\n<p>And in that case,<br \/>\nthey could also rebuild the Temple Of Salomon<br \/>\nwhich is not in Jerusalem today&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\nand was never found neither. <\/p>\n<p>Instead of the ethnic-cleansing<br \/>\nof the original Palestinian citizens of the real Jerusalem,<br \/>\nthe Jewish Tourists could visit a 100% copy of Jerusalem<br \/>\nand even go and live there, if they so wish.<\/p>\n<p>And out of nostalgia for occupation and for discrimination and for evictions<br \/>\nand for check-points and for prisons and for deprivations,<br \/>\nI am sure that Hollywood could provide some actors dressed as Arabs<br \/>\nand the Jewish-tourist could shoot on them, or demolish their houses,<br \/>\nor drive a Bulldozer over their graves&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\nalso they could undress them at some check-points. <\/p>\n<p>Solutions for the Middle East are plenty !!<br \/>\none should only use his (or her)<br \/>\ncreative-imagination <\/p>\n<p>Eng. Moustafa Roosenbloom<br \/>\nManager of New-Jerusalem-Resort, Las Vegas<br \/>\n6 December 2009 <\/p>\n<p>PS:<br \/>\nThere is a huge architectural problem !!<br \/>\nthere are no Jewish Monuments in today&#8217;s Jerusalem<br \/>\nto be copied in Las Vegas&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\nbut all the other sadist games could be copied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I present an excerpt from Raja Chemayel&#8217;s poem: And out of nostalgia for occupation and for discrimination and for evictions and for check-points and for prisons and for deprivations, I am sure that Hollywood could provide some actors dressed as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11924\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-11924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-36k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924","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=11924"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11946,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924\/revisions\/11946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}