{"id":43,"date":"2011-04-24T23:46:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T23:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2011-05-02T21:57:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T21:57:26","slug":"palestine-comes-to-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Palestine Comes to Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201132511858736833_20.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-44\" title=\"201132511858736833_20\" src=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201132511858736833_20-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201132511858736833_20-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201132511858736833_20.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Most Americans, Jew and Gentile, grew up with the Leon Uris history  of the struggle for the Holy Land. <em>Exodus<\/em> chronicles the heroic  birth of Israel out of the ashes of the Holocaust. There the story  ends; there is no other narrative.\u00a0 This politically convenient and magnificently incomplete version of  history remains the dominant American narrative of the tragedy known as  Israel and Palestine.\u00a0Despite the cracks in that narrative in recent  years, the \u00fcber story of <em>Exodus<\/em> \u2013 Uris&#8217; 1958 mega-bestseller,  and the subsequent Hollywood film starring Paul Newman \u2013 still holds a  tremendous grip on the American imagination.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/indepth\/opinion\/2011\/03\/2011325104357145384.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read more, from Al-Jazeera English<\/strong><\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Americans, Jew and Gentile, grew up with the Leon Uris history of the struggle for the Holy Land. Exodus chronicles the heroic birth of Israel out of the ashes of the Holocaust. There the story ends; there is no other narrative.\u00a0 This politically convenient and magnificently incomplete version of history remains the dominant American <a href=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=43#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/43"}],"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=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}