{"id":15555,"date":"2011-05-18T05:05:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T11:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15555"},"modified":"2011-05-18T05:05:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T11:05:12","slug":"mazin-qumsiyeh-cruel-and-sadistic-intoxication-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15555","title":{"rendered":"Mazin Qumsiyeh: Cruel and sadistic intoxication of power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mazin Qumsiyeh<br \/>\n17 May 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My family updated you using my email on what happened on Nakba day (the three messages are now posted at my blog <a href=\"http:\/\/popular-resistance.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/nakba-events-and-arrest-of-dr-qumsiyeh.html\">http:\/\/popular-resistance.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/nakba-events-and-arrest-of-dr-qumsiyeh.html<\/a>).\u00a0 \u00a0Hundreds of us were kidnapped by the apartheid soldiers from demonstration and hundreds were injuried and scores were martyred.\u00a0 Before  I give my report I wanted to thank every one who took action. I have  far too many emails to thank each of you who wrote me and I do not know  who are the hundreds of others who called or wrote to officials, media  etc (I do know from inside information that hundreds did write just to  the US embassy as an example).\u00a0 The level of communication and action around Nakba was inspiring and critical around the world.\u00a0 Ben Gurion said about the ethjnic cleansing of Palestine that &#8220;the old will die and the young will forget&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 Coming  on the heels of an Israeli Knesset law to bar and suppress any  comemorations of the Nakba, the day would actually turn out to be  amazing. This day was the most important May 15 event since the weeks  after May 15, 1948 when thousands of refugees &#8220;infiltrated&#8221; (as the  Zionists labeled it) the borders to return to their homes and lands (a  return that also meant many of them were shot on sight or re-expelled).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/popular-resistance.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/cruel-and-sadistic-intoxication-of.html\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;Cruel and sadistic intoxication of power&#8221; by Mazin Qumsiyeh<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mazin Qumsiyeh 17 May 2011 My family updated you using my email on what happened on Nakba day (the three messages are now posted at my blog http:\/\/popular-resistance.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/nakba-events-and-arrest-of-dr-qumsiyeh.html).\u00a0 \u00a0Hundreds of us were kidnapped by the apartheid soldiers from demonstration and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15555\">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-15555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-42T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15555","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=15555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15558,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15555\/revisions\/15558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}