{"id":6051,"date":"2008-12-29T15:53:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T23:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6051"},"modified":"2008-12-29T15:53:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T23:13:17","slug":"once-more-with-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6051","title":{"rendered":"Once More, With Feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least one reader has taken issue with the title of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/27\/this-is-not-my-community\/\">my last post<\/a>, so let me clarify.  Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2008\/12\/28\/peretz\/\">Glenn Greenwald<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tnr.com\/tnr\/blogs\/the_spine\/archive\/2008\/12\/27\/very-disproportionate-indeed.aspx\">Marty Peretz<\/a> hits the nail on the head:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSo at 11:30 on Saturday morning, according to both the Jerusalem Post and Ha&#8217;aretz, as well as the New York Times, 50 fighter jets and attack helicopters demolished some 40 to 50 sites in just about three minutes, maybe five. Message: do not fuck with the Jews.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You heard him.<\/p>\n<p>Not Israelis.  Not right-wing Israelis.  Not right-wing Israelis in positions of political power.  <em>The Jews.<\/em>  Because, you know, the hive mind.  We Jews love a good fight.  The Israeli\/Palestinian conflict isn&#8217;t complicated or nuanced; the attacks on Sderot don&#8217;t warrant a serious rethinking of military and political strategy.  It all comes down to this: don&#8217;t fuck with the Jews!  &#8216;Cause we&#8217;ll GETCHA!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pjalliance.org\">This<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstreet.org\">is<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org\">my<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/youngjewishandleft.org\">community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aipac.org\">This<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adl.org\">is not<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birthrightisrael.com\">my community.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are we clear?<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/modernmitzvot.wordpress.com\">Modern Mitzvot.<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least one reader has taken issue with the title of my last post, so let me clarify. Via Glenn Greenwald, Marty Peretz hits the nail on the head: So at 11:30 on Saturday morning, according to both the Jerusalem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6051\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-issues","category-palestine-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6051","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}