{"id":1114,"date":"2015-06-19T12:14:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T19:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2015-06-19T12:15:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T19:15:46","slug":"journey-through-a-fractured-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"Journey through a fractured landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mondoweiss.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1115\" alt=\"mondoweiss\" src=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mondoweiss.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mondoweiss.png 400w, https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mondoweiss-300x69.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>by Sandy Tolan<\/p>\n<p>June 18, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Power here, as it does across the West Bank, lies most clearly in the hands of Israel; Palestinians are no match for Israel\u2019s military might or its political influence with the world\u2019s sole superpower. \u00a0<strong>Palestinian power lies instead in sumud, or steadfastness<\/strong>: A determination to persevere and to live for a better day, confronting Israel on moral grounds while hoping the world will one day bear greater witness to the facts on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>As if to underscore this point, near the end of our trip to Hebron, H. gestures to a small neighborhood near the mosque, on the other side of yet another entrance controlled by soldiers and armed with metal detectors. Just beyond live six Palestinian families on a tiny island of territory amidst the patchwork jurisdictions of H-2. They live essentially surrounded by settlements and the military, and because of that proximity, any items that could be construed as weapons \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developmentandhumanrights.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/23\/we-shouldnt-be-afraid-to-describe-the-situation-in-hebron-as-what-it-is-an-apartheid-pure-and-simple\/\">including kitchen knives<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 have been\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lindabeale2.blogspot.com\/2009_11_01_archive.html\">banished from the home<\/a>\u00a0by Israeli authorities. \u00a0The Palestinian residents must have their meat cut in the market, brought back in pieces. \u201cFor how long are you able to live under these shitty conditions?\u201d <strong>Read the full story\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2015\/06\/through-fractured-landscape#sthash.CTBZzMUU.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Sandy Tolan June 18, 2015 &#8230;Power here, as it does across the West Bank, lies most clearly in the hands of Israel; Palestinians are no match for Israel\u2019s military might or its political influence with the world\u2019s sole superpower. \u00a0Palestinian power lies instead in sumud, or steadfastness: A determination to persevere and to live <a href=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=1114#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}