{"id":970,"date":"2014-08-12T08:43:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T15:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=970"},"modified":"2014-08-12T08:43:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T15:43:41","slug":"blown-chances-for-peace-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Blown chances for peace in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alongside the toll of death and broken lives, perhaps the saddest reality of the latest Gaza war, like the Gaza wars before it, is how easy it would have been to avoid. For the last eight years, Israel and the U.S. had repeated opportunities to opt for a diplomatic solution in Gaza. Each time, they have chosen war, with devastating consequences for the families of Gaza. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/blog\/175880\/tomgram%3A_sandy_tolan,_going_wild_in_the_gaza_war\/\"><strong>Read more, at TomDispatch.com&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_975\" style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Funeral.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-975\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-975\" alt=\"Palestinian relatives at the funerals for the Bakr boys, four cousins aged 9, 10, and 11, killed in an Israeli shelling on a Gaza beach as they played hide and seek on July 15.  Photo by Mahmud Hams, AFP\/ Getty\" src=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Funeral.jpg\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Funeral.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Funeral-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Funeral-1024x677.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palestinian relatives at the funerals for the Bakr boys, four cousins aged 9, 10, and 11, killed in an Israeli shelling on a Gaza beach as they played hide and seek on July 15. Photo by Mahmud Hams, AFP\/ Getty<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alongside the toll of death and broken lives, perhaps the saddest reality of the latest Gaza war, like the Gaza wars before it, is how easy it would have been to avoid. For the last eight years, Israel and the U.S. had repeated opportunities to opt for a diplomatic solution in Gaza. Each time, they <a href=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=970#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":[4,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970"}],"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=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}