{"id":8376,"date":"2009-05-25T10:29:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T15:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8376"},"modified":"2009-05-25T10:35:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T15:35:45","slug":"liberals-in-gaza-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8376","title":{"rendered":"Liberals in Gaza (maybe)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philip Weiss and other Americans have been required to “waive consular rights” before they might be allowed entry to Gaza from Egypt. At the time of this post, it’s not certain his group and others will finally get permission. Weiss writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I’m fearful of the emotional consequences of going. Before I left Jack Ross told me that he wouldn’t go because he fears it would radicalize him, and I understand that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If allowed to shuffle into Gaza, perhaps the experience will finally cause Mr. Weiss to lose his jaw-dropping, irritating propensity to feel sorrier for his privileged self than he does for the victims of Zionism and its cohorts.<\/p>\n

CODEPINK organised two new delegations to Gaza, one entering from Egypt (28 May – 5 June<\/a>), and the other from Israel (5-14 June<\/a>).<\/p>\n

From CodePink4Peace<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Both will deliver\u00a0toys, school supplies and materials to build\u00a0three playgrounds. Due to the\u00a0Israeli siege, items such as toys, paper and construction materials are almost non-existent in Gaza.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CODEPINK’s FACT SHEET<\/a> opens with this sentence:
\nThe children of Gaza will decide its future \u2013 and the region\u2019s<\/em><\/p>\n

The malnourished, traumatised, tortured and imprisoned children of Gaza will decide its future and the region’s? Give them toys so they won’t hate the people who torture and murder their family members? In what context of reality does this make sense? In the alternate universe where propagandists are promoted non-stop by corporate and public media, given free reign to spew such nonsense without the competent challenge it deserves? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philip Weiss and other Americans have been required to “waive consular rights” before they might be allowed entry to Gaza from Egypt. At the time of this post, it’s not certain his group and others will finally get permission. Weiss … Continue reading →<\/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-8376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2b6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376","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=8376"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8411,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions\/8411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}