{"id":1039,"date":"2004-08-25T00:18:59","date_gmt":"2004-08-25T08:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/25\/not-being-blown-up-is-nice-too\/"},"modified":"2004-08-25T00:18:59","modified_gmt":"2004-08-25T08:18:59","slug":"not-being-blown-up-is-nice-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1039","title":{"rendered":"Not being blown up is nice, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/stopthewall.org\/FAQs\/33.shtml\">StopTheWall.org&#8217;s FAQ<\/a>, answering the question &#8220;why does the Israeli public support the building of the Wall?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">The majority of the Israeli public has supported the Wall, following the pretext of \u201csecurity\u201d. The idea of unilateral separation appeals greatly to those in their society who do not want to admit or take responsibility for their government\u2019s racist actions.<\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s probably true. But, y&#8217;know, it&#8217;s <i>just barely <\/i>possible that the idea of unilateral separation <i>also <\/i>appeals greatly to those in Israeli society who&#8217;d rather not be <i>blown to fucking pieces on a bus by some anti-semitic moron with a martyr complex and an explosive belt!!!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The StopTheWall website is actually pretty good, when it comes to showing how the Wall is an inhumane land-grab from the Palestinian point of view. But the total incomprehension as to why it&#8217;s perfectly reasonable for ordinary Israelis to want a Wall so they can stop being blown up <i>quite <\/i>so often is maddening. Morons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From StopTheWall.org&#8217;s FAQ, answering the question &#8220;why does the Israeli public support the building of the Wall?&#8221; The majority of the Israeli public has supported the Wall, following the pretext of \u201csecurity\u201d. The idea of unilateral separation appeals greatly to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1039\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}