{"id":16708,"date":"2012-02-09T15:03:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T21:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16708"},"modified":"2012-02-09T15:03:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T21:03:11","slug":"daoud-kuttab-sesame-street-remains-on-hold-for-palestinian-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16708","title":{"rendered":"Daoud Kuttab: &#8216;Sesame Street&#8217; remains on hold for Palestinian children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Daoud Kuttab, executive producer, Sharaa Simsim, the Palestinian version of Sesame Street &#8211; 02\/09\/12<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apologists for Israel\u2019s continued occupation and control over Palestinian lives have long contended Israel is more interested in peace than the Palestinians. One exaggerated argument, repeatedly put forward to justify military rule, is that Palestinians teach their children to hate Jews.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians in the U.S., especially during election campaigns, find that bashing Palestinians has no downside and yields a vote (and donation) jackpot.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/congress-blog\/foreign-policy\/209705-sesame-street-remains-on-hold-for-palestinian-children\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;&#8216;Sesame Street&#8217; remains on hold for Palestinian children&#8221; by Daoud Kuttab<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daoud Kuttab, executive producer, Sharaa Simsim, the Palestinian version of Sesame Street &#8211; 02\/09\/12 Apologists for Israel\u2019s continued occupation and control over Palestinian lives have long contended Israel is more interested in peace than the Palestinians. One exaggerated argument, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16708\">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-16708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4lu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708","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=16708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16711,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708\/revisions\/16711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}