{"id":508,"date":"2003-09-14T18:02:29","date_gmt":"2003-09-14T23:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=508"},"modified":"2003-09-14T18:02:29","modified_gmt":"2003-09-14T23:02:29","slug":"a-really-stupid-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"A Really Stupid Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/WORLD\/meast\/09\/14\/mideast\/index.html\">CNN.Com: Israeli official: Killing Arafat is option<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How utterly stupid can you get here?  If they kill Arafat, there *will* be hell to pay.  Arafat is the only one keeping peace there &#8212; if not for him, Hamas and its minions would have done *soooooo* much more.<\/p>\n<p>I have a better idea: how about Israel electing someone who is willing to work with the terms from the 1948 creation of the state which *didn&#8217;t* usurp land and was agreed upon by both sides?  How about getting rid of Sharon who is probably the only person in this world who is a bigger warmonger than Dubya?  (He was the minister of defense when Israel invaded Lebanon.  And they think this guy wants peace?????)<\/p>\n<p>I used to sympathize with Israel.  Then, I learned about all the crap they&#8217;ve done to the Palestinians and how idiots like Pat Robertson are supporting them only because they want to speed up the Second Coming.  (Pat, Pat, Pat:  you can&#8217;t force the will of God.  Why haven&#8217;t we learned this by now???)  Israel has committed enough human rights violations against the Palestinians to equal the number of suicide bombings.  Do I condone the bombings?  No.  I sure don&#8217;t have all that much sympathy for either side &#8212; that&#8217;s for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN.Com: Israeli official: Killing Arafat is option How utterly stupid can you get here? If they kill Arafat, there *will* be hell to pay. Arafat is the only one keeping peace there &#8212; if not for him, Hamas and its &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=508\">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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-8c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}