{"id":395,"date":"2002-04-16T09:47:17","date_gmt":"2002-04-16T16:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/04\/16\/395.html"},"modified":"2002-04-16T09:47:17","modified_gmt":"2002-04-16T16:47:17","slug":"carroll-on-the-middle-east-aga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/04\/16\/carroll-on-the-middle-east-aga\/","title":{"rendered":"Carroll on the Middle East, again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jon Carroll continues to be one of the few people I see discussing the Israel\/Palestine situation who shows much awareness of the complexity of it.  He's also an eloquent voice for peace.  In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2002\/04\/16\/DD86963.DTL\">today's column<\/a>, he mentions all the arguments and justifications and impassioned rhetoric that he's been hearing, and then says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[A]t night I have imagined I have heard .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. the last soft breaths of babies dying in a cause they did not know was entirely justified by the airtight case presented before the international body.<\/p>\n<p>I want silence more than anything. I want everyone to shut the hell up so we can all hear the crying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I'm feeling too cynical right now to think there's much chance of that, but I approve of the sentiment.  And this line was a good reminder for me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[I]f we are to be humans, hope is always an obligation. We must always start again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(And yes, I know that that column, too, is rhetoric, and could be seen as a standard \"You're killing innocents!\" sort of thing.  Only that kind of rhetoric is usually used as further justification for war, rather than as justification for peace.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Carroll continues to be one of the few people I see discussing the Israel\/Palestine situation who shows much awareness&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}