{"id":3814,"date":"2015-10-28T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-08T19:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T17:58:20","slug":"epalestine-forward-what-americans-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2015\/10\/epalestine-forward-what-americans-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Forward: What Americans Don\u2019t Know About the Middle East Conflict and Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mobile-photo\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Forward-701605-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Forward-701605-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-3815\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Jewish Daily Forward<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>What Americans Don&#8217;t Know About the Middle East Conflict and Why<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">By Sam Bahour<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\">October 28, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em><strong><span class=\"\"><\/span>&#8220;For the average American citizen, in 2015, to still view Palestinians as creatures from Mars, their all-too-human desperation seen without any historic context and independently of any relation to the Israeli military occupation which runs their lives, is no longer acceptable. The American education system and media must do better, for the sake of us all.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> ~Sam Bahour, Forward, Oct. 28, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">READ ARTICLE AT:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/what-americans-dont-know\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/what-americans-dont-know<\/a><\/p>\n<\/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>The Jewish Daily Forward What Americans Don&#8217;t Know About the Middle East Conflict and Why By Sam Bahour October 28, 2015 &#8220;For the average American citizen, in 2015, to still view Palestinians as creatures from Mars, their all-too-human desperation seen without any historic context and independently of any relation to the Israeli military occupation which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3815,"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":1,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[942],"tags":[55,8,514,158,472],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sams-writings","tag-education","tag-middle-east","tag-nonviolence","tag-occupied-territories","tag-violence"],"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","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","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=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6108,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions\/6108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}