{"id":14607,"date":"2010-08-10T18:26:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T00:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14607"},"modified":"2010-08-10T18:26:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T00:26:45","slug":"chris-hedges-the-tears-of-gaza-must-be-our-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14607","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hedges: The Tears of Gaza Must Be Our Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Hedges        \/               <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/print\/the_tears_of_gaza_must_be_our_tears_20100809\/\" target=\"out_link\">TruthDig<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Chris Hedges made these remarks Thursday night in New York  City at a fundraiser for sponsoring a U.S. boat to break the blockade  of Gaza. More information can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustogaza.org\/\">www.ustogaza.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I lived in Jerusalem I had a friend who confided in me that as a  college student in the United States she attended events like these,  wrote up reports and submitted them to the Israel consulate for money.  It would be naive to assume this Israeli practice has ended. So, I want  first tonight to address that person, or those persons, who may have  come to this event for the purpose of reporting on it to the Israeli  government.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to remind them that it is they who hide  in darkness. It is we who stand in the light. It is they who deceive. It  is we who openly proclaim our compassion and demand justice for those  who suffer in Gaza. We are not afraid to name our names. We are not  afraid to name our beliefs. And we know something you perhaps sense with  a kind of dread. As Martin Luther King said, the arc of the moral  universe is long but it bends toward justice, and that arc is descending  with a righteous fury that is thundering down upon the Israeli  government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/print\/the_tears_of_gaza_must_be_our_tears_20100809\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Hedges \/ TruthDig Chris Hedges made these remarks Thursday night in New York City at a fundraiser for sponsoring a U.S. boat to break the blockade of Gaza. More information can be found at www.ustogaza.org. When I lived &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14607\">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-14607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3NB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14607","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=14607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14610,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14607\/revisions\/14610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}