{"id":3685,"date":"2017-10-07T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T18:53:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T16:53:36","slug":"epalestine-cleveland-plain-dealer-sadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2017\/10\/epalestine-cleveland-plain-dealer-sadly\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Plain Dealer: The sadly misnamed Taylor Force Act is being propelled by unfounded anti-Palestinian propaganda: Sam Bahour (Opinion)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland Plain Dealer<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The sadly misnamed Taylor Force Act is being propelled by unfounded anti-Palestinian propaganda: Sam Bahour (Opinion)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Posted on October 7, 2017 at 10:47 AM<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/israel-palestinians-4212a87789390453-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/israel-palestinians-4212a87789390453-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-3686\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Israeli police officers and Palestinians scuffle during clashes in an<br \/>\neast Jerusalem neighborhood in this Sept. 8 file photo after Israeli<br \/>\nofficials evicted a Palestinian family from their home to make way for<br \/>\nJewish tenants, according to the Associated Press.(<cite>Mahmoud Illean, Associated Press<\/cite>)\n            <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As an American, born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio, I wish to ask the Palestinian leadership a simple question. Do you really need the U.S. funds? Of course, having more funds is always desirable, but in this case the funds are so small in the bigger picture, wouldn&#8217;t it make more sense to kindly ask the U.S. Congress to keep its money, all of it?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>READ FULL ARTICLE HERE:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/Taylor-Force-Act\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/Taylor-Force-Act<\/a><\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Everything about this list:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/p>\n<p>To subscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p>\n<p>To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland Plain Dealer The sadly misnamed Taylor Force Act is being propelled by unfounded anti-Palestinian propaganda: Sam Bahour (Opinion) Posted on October 7, 2017 at 10:47 AM Israeli police officers and Palestinians scuffle during clashes in an east Jerusalem neighborhood in this Sept. 8 file photo after Israeli officials evicted a Palestinian family from their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[318,372,165,373],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-congress","tag-foreign-aid","tag-palestinian-authority","tag-taylor-force-act"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"Sam Bahour (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as <a href=\"https:\/\/aim.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder &amp; Emeritus Member of <a href=\"http:\/\/a4vpe.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at <a href=\"https:\/\/justvision.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/1994\/10\/homeland-oral-histories-of-palestine-and-palestinians-book-recommended\" rel=\"noopener\">HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamBahour\" rel=\"noopener\">@SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}