{"id":1293,"date":"2010-05-31T09:33:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T09:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2010-05-31T09:34:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T09:34:31","slug":"israeli-commandos-attack-aid-ship-the-discussion-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/israeli-commandos-attack-aid-ship-the-discussion-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli commandos attack aid ship &#8211; the discussion continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I read headlines like: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/10195838.stm\">Deaths as Israel storms aid ship<\/a> or <a id=\"tickerAnchor\" href=\"http:\/\/aljazeera.com\/news\/articles\/34\/Israeli-Massacres-Go-International-Commandos-Kill.html\" target=\"_top\">Israeli Massacres Go International; Commandos Kill 16 Free Gaza Activists<\/a> I despair.\u00a0 And then to read the vitriolic comments for and against the action, my sense of desperation grows.\u00a0 I feel more strongly for the underdog and I can not fathom why such a rich and intelligent culture as Israel&#8217;s can not divine a peaceful settlement.\u00a0 Very sad.\u00a0 A dismal illustration of humanity&#8217;s self ignorance and destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I read headlines like: Deaths as Israel storms aid ship or Israeli Massacres Go International; Commandos Kill 16 Free Gaza Activists I despair.\u00a0 And then to read the vitriolic comments for and against the action, my sense of desperation grows.\u00a0 I feel more strongly for the underdog and I can not fathom why such &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/israeli-commandos-attack-aid-ship-the-discussion-continues\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Israeli commandos attack aid ship &#8211; the discussion continues<\/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,"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":[19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-risk-and-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-kR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}