{"id":12270,"date":"2009-12-28T09:05:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T15:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12270"},"modified":"2009-12-28T09:05:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T15:05:27","slug":"ali-abunimah-israel-resembles-a-failed-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12270","title":{"rendered":"Ali Abunimah: Israel resembles a failed state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ali Abunimah, <em>Electronic Intifada<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article10969.shtml\">27 December 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>That &#8220;much of Gaza still lies in ruins,&#8221; a coalition of international aid agencies stated recently, &#8220;is not an accident; it is a matter of policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This policy has been clear all along and it has nothing to do with Israeli &#8220;security.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One year has passed since the savage Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, but for the people there time might as well have stood still.<\/p>\n<p>Since Palestinians in Gaza buried their loved ones &#8212; more than 1,400 persons, almost 400 of them children &#8212; there has been little healing and virtually no reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p>According to international aid agencies, only 41 trucks of building supplies have been allowed into Gaza during the year.<\/p>\n<p>Promises of billions made at a donors&#8217; conference in Egypt last March attended by luminaries of the so-called &#8220;international community&#8221; and the Middle East peace process industry are unfulfilled, and the Israeli siege, supported by the US, the European Union, Arab states, and tacitly by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Ramallah, continues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article10969.shtml\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ali Abunimah is <a href=\"http:\/\/aliabunimah.posterous.com\/\">also blogging about his trip with the Gaza Freedom March<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, 27 December 2009 That &#8220;much of Gaza still lies in ruins,&#8221; a coalition of international aid agencies stated recently, &#8220;is not an accident; it is a matter of policy.&#8221; This policy has been clear all along &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12270\">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-12270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3bU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12270","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=12270"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12275,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12270\/revisions\/12275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}