{"id":2005,"date":"2007-05-16T06:44:25","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T11:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2007-05-16T06:45:19","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T11:45:19","slug":"a-capital-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2005","title":{"rendered":"A capital question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>10 May 2007 | JERUSALEM<br \/>\nFrom <em>The Economist<\/em> print edition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More Palestinians are losing their right to live in Jerusalem than ever before<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ON May 15th, ?Nakba [Catastrophe] Day?, Palestinians mourn the loss of most of their homeland to the newborn state of Israel. In a grim irony for them, this year&#8217;s ?Jerusalem Day?, the date in the lunar Jewish calendar when Israel celebrates its ?reunification? of the city after capturing the West Bank in the 1967 war, falls the day after.<\/p>\n<p>The 245,000 Palestinians from Jerusalem itself will feel the irony extra sharply. Last year 1,363 of them, many from generations-old Jerusalem families, lost their right to live in the city?up more than six-fold on the year before, and the highest annual total ever.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/africa\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9163534\">Read the article<\/a> ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Sapienza critiques <em>NYT<\/em> reporting on Jerusalem (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/13\/nonchalantly-nyt-details-israeli-ethnic-cleansing\/\">Nonchalantly, <em>NYT<\/em> Details Israeli Ethnic Cleansing<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/\">Donate to Antiwar.com<\/a>!  They need a few thousand more to fund the quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 May 2007 | JERUSALEM From The Economist print edition More Palestinians are losing their right to live in Jerusalem than ever before ON May 15th, ?Nakba [Catastrophe] Day?, Palestinians mourn the loss of most of their homeland to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2005\">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-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-wl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","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=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}