{"id":16698,"date":"2012-02-08T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16698"},"modified":"2012-02-08T10:00:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T16:00:25","slug":"why-not-sanction-israel-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16698","title":{"rendered":"Why not sanction Israel, President Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethnic cleansing not a good enough reason for you?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsunrwa.org\/component\/content\/article\/10-news\/77-unrwas-2012-emergency-appeal-for-the-west-bank-and-gaza\">A FEW OF THE LATEST STATISTICS FROM UNRWA<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/userfiles\/2011120681236.pdf\">.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Before 2002, dependence on UNRWA aid in the West Bank was 3.5%, <strong>currently it\u2019s 50%;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Before 2002, dependence on UNRWA aid in Gaza was 10%, <strong>currently it\u2019s 70%;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Demolitions in the West Bank quadrupled in 2011<\/strong> compared to 2010;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Israeli settler violence rose 205%<\/strong> in 2011 compared to 2010; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.z2systems.com\/nps\/\/servlet\/DisplayLink?orgId=unrwa&amp;emailId=ec2a1b84e843f9a16c095b37a747f5dbem812715ec2&amp;linkId=7239&amp;targetUrl=http:\/\/www.change.org\/petitions\/say-no-to-israeli-settler-attacks-on-palestinian-communities\">check out our petition on Change.org!<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>In 2005, Israel committed to allowing 400 truckloads of exports out of Gaza each day, <strong>today approximately 2 trucks make it out of Gaza on a daily basis; <\/strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.z2systems.com\/nps\/\/servlet\/DisplayLink?orgId=unrwa&amp;emailId=ec2a1b84e843f9a16c095b37a747f5dbem812715ec2&amp;linkId=7238&amp;targetUrl=http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=41145&amp;Cr=Palestin&amp;Cr1\" target=\"_blank\">check out Ban Ki-moon&#8217;s recent visit to Gaza where he calls on Israel to end its occupation.<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Currently, <strong>542 obstacles including road blocks, check points, and the separation wall, affect Palestinian movement<\/strong> in the West Bank;<\/li>\n<li>600,000 refugees live below the poverty line in Gaza. <strong>300,000 live on less than $1.60 a day.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethnic cleansing not a good enough reason for you? A FEW OF THE LATEST STATISTICS FROM UNRWA (.pdf) Before 2002, dependence on UNRWA aid in the West Bank was 3.5%, currently it\u2019s 50%; Before 2002, dependence on UNRWA aid in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16698\">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-16698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4lk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16698","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=16698"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16703,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16698\/revisions\/16703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}