{"id":1262,"date":"2015-10-09T20:47:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T03:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2015-10-12T20:49:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T03:49:55","slug":"tolan-on-hope-and-dignity-amidst-israels-military-occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=1262","title":{"rendered":"Tolan on &#8216;hope and dignity&#8217; amidst Israel&#8217;s military occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent days, clashes and demonstrations have erupted across Palestine as Israeli forces have injured more than 400 Palestinians, according to the YWCA in Jerusalem, attacking more than a dozen ambulances, shooting some 40 with live ammunition, killing four teenagers in barely 24 hours, and shooting a woman dead in cold blood at a checkpoint. An\u00a0<strong>&#8220;endless state of emergency,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0the YWCA declared.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/76ca1c0daf770c516759e07a8\/images\/80d5d731-31c7-4f23-a9b9-f09e4c817cb1.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"466\" align=\"left\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/76ca1c0daf770c516759e07a8\/images\/80d5d731-31c7-4f23-a9b9-f09e4c817cb1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In such bleak times, with events spiraling out of control, it is tempting to believe that there can be no positive news, no inspiration. But\u00a0<strong>there are people working to infuse Palestinian children with hope and dignity<\/strong>\u00a0amidst the seemingly never-ending onslaught of Israel&#8217;s military occupation. One of them does so with the power of music.\u00a0<strong>Ramzi Aburedwan<\/strong>, pictured here, is the founder of Al Kamandjati (&#8220;The Violinist&#8221;)\u00a0music institute in the West Bank, and the subject of my new book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/childrenofthestone?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=898953050159285\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/childrenofthestone?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=898953050159285\">\u202a#\u200echildrenofthestone\u202c<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/euphrates.org\/children-of-the-stone-the-power-of-music-in-a-hard-land\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read the exclusive\u00a0new book excerpt shared by our friends at the Euphrates Institute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent days, clashes and demonstrations have erupted across Palestine as Israeli forces have injured more than 400 Palestinians, according to the YWCA in Jerusalem, attacking more than a dozen ambulances, shooting some 40 with live ammunition, killing four teenagers in barely 24 hours, and shooting a woman dead in cold blood at a checkpoint. <a href=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=1262#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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262"}],"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=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}