{"id":4947,"date":"2008-12-14T06:01:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T11:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4947"},"modified":"2008-12-14T06:01:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T11:01:41","slug":"darlene-wallach-israeli-blockade-of-gaza-amounts-to-occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4947","title":{"rendered":"Darlene Wallach: Israeli blockade of Gaza amounts to occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Darlene Wallach<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/ci_11228083?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com\">Special to the Mercury News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 18, the Israeli military kidnapped me \u2014 a Jewish American leaving behind the comforts of San Jose \u2014 and 17 others from three Palestinian fishing vessels plying Gaza&#8217;s coastal waters. Two other international human rights workers and I were accompanying 15 Palestinian fishermen to provide witness to and documentation of the frequent harassment and attacks by the Israeli navy. Our seizure belies Israel&#8217;s claim that it no longer occupies Gaza and its 1.5 million people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/ci_11228083?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Darlene Wallach Special to the Mercury News On Nov. 18, the Israeli military kidnapped me \u2014 a Jewish American leaving behind the comforts of San Jose \u2014 and 17 others from three Palestinian fishing vessels plying Gaza&#8217;s coastal waters. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4947\">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-4947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1hN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947","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=4947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4949,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947\/revisions\/4949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}