{"id":6052,"date":"2009-01-18T22:41:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T03:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6052"},"modified":"2009-01-18T22:41:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T03:41:30","slug":"the-depth-of-israels-moral-squalor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6052","title":{"rendered":"The depth of Israel&#8217;s moral squalor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/angryarab.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/moral-squalor.html\">As&#8217;ad AbuKhalil writes<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>M. (who does not want to be identified) sent me this: &#8220;Prof. Abu Khalil : On &#8216;Democracy Now&#8217; Mads Gilbert said this: \u201c\u2026the siege of Gaza, which has been on for eighteen months, which means a lot of starvation, lack of food, water, power supplies, medicines, napkins, anything that people need to live.\u201d By \u2018napkins\u2019 I think he means feminine hygiene products. Forcing some half million women to use rags for a year and a half. And little or no water to bathe in. In the context of the horror visited on Gaza I am having a lot of trouble with this. On the one hand, next to the death of a single child, it seems nothing. Yet as a metaphor for the depth of Israel&#8217;s moral squalor, everything.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Dr. Mads Gilbert on Democracy NOW!<\/em>:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2009\/1\/14\/white_phosphorous_and_dense_inert_metal\">White Phosphorous and Dense Inert Metal Explosives: Is Israel Using Banned and Experimental Munitions in Gaza?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As&#8217;ad AbuKhalil writes: M. (who does not want to be identified) sent me this: &#8220;Prof. Abu Khalil : On &#8216;Democracy Now&#8217; Mads Gilbert said this: \u201c\u2026the siege of Gaza, which has been on for eighteen months, which means a lot &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6052\">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-6052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1zC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052","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=6052"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6057,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions\/6057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}