{"id":758,"date":"2013-04-07T16:21:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T16:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=758"},"modified":"2013-04-10T12:09:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T12:09:01","slug":"the-system-in-place-mondays-scheduled-trial-of-beloved-singer-oday-khatib-sheds-light-on-israel%e2%80%99s-draconian-system-of-arrest-and-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=758","title":{"rendered":"The System In Place:  Military trial of beloved singer Oday Khatib sheds light on Israel\u2019s system of arrest and detention [UPDATE: trial postponed to Wednesday, April 17]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_766\" style=\"width: 413px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/odayApril7.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-766\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-766\" title=\"odayApril7\" src=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/odayApril7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/odayApril7.jpg 403w, https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/odayApril7-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/odayApril7-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/odayApril7-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oday Khatib, France 2012.  He he stands accused of throwing stones and faces Israeli military trial on Monday.  Photo by Khaled Jarrar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Imagine being confined to a small sliver of land, in plain view of a wider homeland that you cannot touch.\u00a0\u00a0Your house is in a refugee camp, surrounded by fine red-roofed homes built by and for strangers who seized your territory without warning or permission.\u00a0\u00a0The strangers, perched on hills that make it possible for them to spy into your home, are protected by one of the world\u2019s most powerful armies, with its tanks, rockets, and helicopter gunships supplied by the top military power on earth.\u00a0\u00a0The soldiers tightly restrict your movements through your own territory.\u00a0\u00a0They subject your family to random searches at military posts along the road, where you\u2019re forced to submit your documents, and sometimes to strip down to your underwear.\u00a0\u00a0At night, without warning, the army may enter your home and take your teen-aged children.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, they often do.\u00a0\u00a0Once you finally find out where they are, they may or may not face any charges.\u00a0\u00a0If they\u2019re not charged, the military courts can hold them there indefinitely.\u00a0\u00a0If they are, the chances they will be found innocent are one in four hundred. \u00a0Imagine that you lived in such place, in a land you had long dreamt would be your own sovereign country, but which is now cut up into tiny enclaves that keep you thus confined.\u00a0\u00a0What would you do?\u00a0If you chose to resist, how would you do so?\u00a0Oday Khatib fought back by singing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more, at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/2013\/04\/20134792038694371.html\">Aljazeera.com<\/a>&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine being confined to a small sliver of land, in plain view of a wider homeland that you cannot touch.\u00a0\u00a0Your house is in a refugee camp, surrounded by fine red-roofed homes built by and for strangers who seized your territory without warning or permission.\u00a0\u00a0The strangers, perched on hills that make it possible for them to <a href=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=758#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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758"}],"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=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}