{"id":2666,"date":"2009-01-04T15:06:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T19:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/?p=2666"},"modified":"2009-01-04T16:27:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T20:27:31","slug":"gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2009\/01\/gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like what I&#8217;m seeing at all.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like the fact that there is no one in a position of leadership who will even discuss the human cost of what is happening on the Gaza strip.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like the fact that Barack Obama has said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>What are they going to do, treat it like we treated Fallujah?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/01\/04\/israel-cluster-bombs\/\">Disproportionate response<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The situation is complex, for sure &#8211; and I&#8217;ve been listening to the arguments for days. The rockets are wrong, and the attack is wrong &#8211; and neither will contribute to any sort of sustainable relationship among the peoples there.<\/p>\n<p>There is something fundamentally wrong about what is happening right now, and, as for me, my heart goes out to the civilians who are suffering and being killed. <\/p>\n<p>Israel is using our weapons to killing innocents, not just arguable targets. They&#8217;ve blockaded.<\/p>\n<p>The lives of Palestinians are worth just as much as any other life. The reporting is permeated with subhuman projections, something that is doubly distressing from people who have a history that should have taught them better.<\/p>\n<p>Here it seems I&#8217;m in opposition even to my own party. Who in America will speak for the humanity of the people there? Look what happened when Jimmy Carter tried to do it.<\/p>\n<p>This campaign to prevent Hamas from having the ability to lob old rockets (and compare the death counts) will have to level the whole place. <\/p>\n<p>How does that serve anyone?<\/p>\n<p>My feeling is that Israel is divided &#8211; much as we are. They have every right to protect their citizens. But this is too much.<\/p>\n<p>The first question that comes to mind: Who is this helping in the election there? <\/p>\n<p>Comment if you want to but, as this is a difficult thorny topic, please remember that no hate speech will be approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like what I&#8217;m seeing at all. I don&#8217;t like the fact that there is no one in a position of leadership who will even discuss the human cost of what is happening on the Gaza strip. I don&#8217;t like the fact that Barack Obama has said nothing. What are they going to do, treat it like we treated Fallujah? Disproportionate response. The situation is complex, for sure &#8211; and I&#8217;ve been listening to the arguments for days. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2009\/01\/gaza\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[3730,4729,5398,2566,306,309],"class_list":["post-2666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-gaza-strip","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-palestinians","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}