{"id":3285,"date":"2007-02-15T22:42:01","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T05:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/15\/omg-like-go-levantine-high\/"},"modified":"2007-02-15T22:42:01","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T05:42:01","slug":"omg-like-go-levantine-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/15\/omg-like-go-levantine-high\/","title":{"rendered":"OMG, Like, Go Levantine High!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is Palestine a high school full of tantrum-throwing teenagers? I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m only now compelled to bitch about this odd situation wherein Israel will not stop sanctioning, roadblocking, kidnapping, squatting on, shooting, and bombing the Palestinians and their land unless Hamas &#8212; the radical Islamic group <a href=\"http:\/\/amconmag.com\/2007\/2007_02_12\/article4.html\">forged<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/justin\/?articleid=8449\">Israeli hands<\/a>, and which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/mld\/thestate\/news\/world\/16680951.htm\">up until this week<\/a> dominated the Palestinian Authority &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/WORLD\/meast\/01\/30\/hamas.funding\/\">recognizes the right of Israel to exist<\/a> as an exclusive Jewish state. And now that Palestine has a unity government which includes Fatah and other, independent political figures, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/826449.html\">the US will continue to boycott the PA<\/a> because it will still <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.today.reuters.com\/news\/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&#038;storyID=2007-02-10T142337Z_01_L10757415_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-PALESTINIANS-HAMAS-COL.XML\">not recognize Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One could easily say to the Palestinians: Why won&#8217;t you just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/orig\/cook.php?articleid=10171\">recognize Israel<\/a> and end the misery? But one could just as easily say the same to Israeli leaders: Why won&#8217;t you grow the hell up and stop caring what your mortal enemies think of you?<\/p>\n<p>Flashback to 1996, Olympic Heights High School in Boca Raton, Florida: Marissa will <em>never<\/em> stop spreading rumors about Becky because she said she doesn&#8217;t like Marissa&#8217;s new nose. But Marissa, like, <em>totally <\/em>stole Becky&#8217;s boyfriend last year and they have hated each other ever since, anyhow, so like, why does Marissa even care what Becky thinks? Ugh, anywayyys-uh.<\/p>\n<p>Israel: you&#8217;re supposed to be the sane, Western liberal democratic society, right? Act like it, not a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrmea.com\/html\/us_aid_to_israel.htm\">spoiled brat<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Palestine a high school full of tantrum-throwing teenagers? I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m only now compelled to bitch about this odd situation wherein Israel will not stop sanctioning, roadblocking, kidnapping, squatting on, shooting, and bombing the Palestinians and their land unless Hamas &#8212; the radical Islamic group forged by Israeli hands, and which up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}