{"id":12504,"date":"2011-05-19T14:53:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T19:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=12504"},"modified":"2011-05-19T14:53:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T19:53:31","slug":"its-not-my-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=12504","title":{"rendered":"It’s not my problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

We watched Amreeka<\/em> last night and the actress,\u00a0Nisreen Faour<\/a>, was so engaging as a newly arrived to the U.S. Palestinian mother trying to find the best place for her son to grow up; I expect we’ll see more from her. The movie is definitely worth renting – add it to your Netflix list.<\/p>\n

The Arabic music was as familiar to me as Sephardic music, the food was most of what I grew up eating because of my father’s background and having Turkish grandparents, the character’s mother back in Israel sounded just like my mother-in-law with, “even if the roads were paved of gold in America I would never go there.” Ah, all so familiar. And yet right now, 2011, Palestinians and Jews are killing each other. Insanity.<\/p>\n

Here is the NYT alert I just received:<\/p>\n

Obama Backs Mideast Plan Based on 1967 Borders<\/div>\n
Declaring that “the dream of a Jewish and democratic state\u00a0cannot be fulfilled with permanent occupation,” President\u00a0Obama said that a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian\u00a0conflict must embody two sovereign states based on pre-1967\u00a0borders.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We watched Amreeka last night and the actress,\u00a0Nisreen Faour, was so engaging as a newly arrived to the U.S. Palestinian mother trying to find the best place for her son to grow up; I expect we’ll see more from her. The movie is definitely worth renting – add it to your Netflix list. The Arabic music was as familiar to me as Sephardic music, the food was most of what I grew up eating because… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-3fG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12505,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12504\/revisions\/12505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}