{"id":16946,"date":"2012-05-24T11:11:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T17:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16946"},"modified":"2012-05-24T11:11:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T17:11:03","slug":"yousef-munayyer-not-all-israeli-citizens-are-equal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16946","title":{"rendered":"Yousef Munayyer: Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By YOUSEF MUNAYYER<\/p>\n<p>Washington<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019M a Palestinian who was born in the Israeli town of Lod, and thus I am an Israeli citizen. My wife is not; she is a Palestinian from Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Despite our towns being just 30 miles apart, we met almost 6,000 miles away in Massachusetts, where we attended neighboring colleges.<\/p>\n<p>A series of walls, checkpoints, settlements and soldiers fill the 30-mile gap between our hometowns, making it more likely for us to have met on the other side of the planet than in our own backyard.<\/p>\n<p>Never is this reality more profound than on our trips home from our current residence outside Washington. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/24\/opinion\/not-all-israeli-citizens-are-equal.html\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal&#8221; by Yousef Munayyer<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By YOUSEF MUNAYYER Washington I\u2019M a Palestinian who was born in the Israeli town of Lod, and thus I am an Israeli citizen. My wife is not; she is a Palestinian from Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Despite our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16946\">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-16946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4pk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16946","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=16946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16949,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16946\/revisions\/16949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}