{"id":3929,"date":"2014-07-01T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-03-14T21:39:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T19:39:44","slug":"epalestine-reflections-as-we-brace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2014\/07\/epalestine-reflections-as-we-brace\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections as we brace ourselves&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a reminder of the type of society living in our midst, as the words \"kids,\" \"youth,\" and \"children\" are being thrown around between the words \"revenge,\" \"kill all Arabs,\" and \"price tag now\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table tr-caption-container\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\n<p class=\"content_container\"><span class=\"imageText\">Child in army gear crawling soldier-style as officer encourages him during weapons display in Efrat, Independence Day 2014.<\/span><br><span class=\"imageCredit\">Photo by AFP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Working link to archived<em> Ha'aretz<\/em> article &amp; photo: <a href=\"httpss:\/\/archive.is\/HvgsY\">https:\/\/archive.is\/HvgsY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">*** I call for the immediate arrest of the parents of today's three murder victims; they should be charged with child endangerment. Then, the same police wagon should pick up the entire Israeli cabinet for endangering an entire state and the ethnic cleansing of a native people! ***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And after all is said and done, we should remember that every Jewish Israeli high school graduate, yes kids, are given, by the State of Israel, an M-16, combat training, and let loose in the wild, wild east!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>THE VIOLENCE MUST STOP, ALL OF IT!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">_____________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everything about this list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To subscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a reminder of the type of society living in our midst, as the words &#8220;kids,&#8221; &#8220;youth,&#8221; and &#8220;children&#8221; are being thrown around between the words &#8220;revenge,&#8221; &#8220;kill all Arabs,&#8221; and &#8220;price tag now&#8221;. Child in army gear crawling soldier-style as officer encourages him during weapons display in Efrat, Independence Day 2014.Photo by AFP Working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[117,12,657,480,158,658,659],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-israeli-settlements-settlers-and-settler-colonialism","tag-mahmoud-abbas","tag-missing-israeli-teens","tag-moshe-yaalon","tag-occupied-territories","tag-rachel-frankel","tag-west-bank-teens-kidnap"],"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":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aim.ps\/\">Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour played a foundational role in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justvision.org\/\">Just Vision<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mas.ps\">The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour is the co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homeland-Oral-Histories-Palestine-Palestinians\/dp\/1566561329\/ref=la_B00HBW71SO_1_1\">Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2017\/06\/epalestine-kingdom-of-olives-and-ash\/\">Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/the-tallest-man-in-ramallah\/\">The Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamBahour\">@SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\">www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9554,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions\/9554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3929"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}