{"id":2753,"date":"2007-12-19T15:38:35","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T20:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2007-12-19T15:38:35","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T20:38:35","slug":"mitri-raheb-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2753","title":{"rendered":"Mitri Raheb &#8211; Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Y_IVuBIx2Ds&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n<font size=\"4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y_IVuBIx2Ds\">About This Video<\/a><\/font><br \/>\nRev. Dr. Mitri Raheb describes himself as a Palestinian, an Arab, a Christian and a Lutheran pastor. Confusing? He doesn&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>What he finds confusing is the situation in the Middle East. &#8220;Some say that Jews and Palestinians are very smart people. After decades of war, I can say that we are stupid!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In this interview, Mitri Raheb tells Global X what happened to the Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem in 2002: &#8220;What I built over five years was destroyed in 11 hours by the Israeli Army.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mitri Raheb went through the 1967 war, the 1973 war and the first Gulf War, when Scud missiles were sent by Iraq over Israel and he didn&#8217;t have a mask to protect his two-months-old daughter. Then the 2002 siege of the Church of the Nativity. &#8220;That&#8217;s 40 years of ongoing conflict. Will my grand-child have to live through another war???&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mitri Raheb is not optimistic for his daughter. He thinks that 10 years from now, &#8220;Palestine will look like a piece of Swiss cheese. Israel gets the cheese and Palestinians get the holes&#8230; An apartheid system with two different legal systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But there is hope. &#8220;Hope is what we do!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About This Video Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb describes himself as a Palestinian, an Arab, a Christian and a Lutheran pastor. Confusing? He doesn&#8217;t think so. What he finds confusing is the situation in the Middle East. &#8220;Some say that Jews &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2753\">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-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Ip","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","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=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}