{"id":2813,"date":"2008-12-14T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2008-12-14T16:00:03","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T16:00:03","slug":"2008-12-14-links-december-13th-to-december-14th-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2813","title":{"rendered":"Links December 13th to December 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for December 13th through December 14th:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/middle_east\/article5338014.ece\">Gaza families eat grass as Israel locks border &#8211; Times Online<\/a> &#8211; &ldquo;We had one meal today &#8211; khobbeizeh,&rdquo; said Abu Amra, 43, showing the leaves of a plant that grows along the streets of Gaza. &ldquo;Every day, I wake up and start looking for wood and plastic to burn for fuel and I beg. When I find nothing, we eat this grass.&rdquo;<br \/>Abu Amra and her unemployed husband have seven daughters and a son. Their tiny breeze-block house has had no furniture since they burnt the last cupboard for heat.<br \/>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t remember seeing a fruit,&rdquo; said Rabab, 12, who goes with her mother most mornings to scavenge. She is dressed in a tracksuit top and holed jeans, and her feet are bare.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/article\/20081212\/REVIEW\/322535509\/1008\">Border patrol &#8211; The National Newspaper<\/a> &#8211; On France#039;s sovereign wealth fund, which invests domestically, presumably to keep those nasty Arabs out of French boardrooms.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/article\/20081212\/REVIEW\/688614151\/1008\">Enemy mine &#8211; The National Newspaper<\/a> &#8211; Max Rodenbeck reviews Gilles Kepel#039;s quot;Beyond Terror and Martyrdomquot;.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/rss\/mideast\/*http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20081214\/wl_nm\/us_palestinians_hamas_israel\">Hamas warns Israel truce coming to end <br \/>    (Reuters)<\/a> &#8211; Meshaal says from Damascus Hamas won#039;t renew six-month truce that wasn#039;t.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/outlookindia.com\/fullprint.asp?choice=1fodname=20081222fname=Amitavsid=1\">Confessions of a xenophile<\/a> &#8211; Indian writer Amitav Ghosh, author of quot;In An Antique Landquot;, reminisces about living in the Delta, empire and the non-aligned movement.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/mideast-africa\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12773168\">Diplomacy over Syria | Where shall I go next? | The Economist<\/a> &#8211; About Syria#039;s adept diplomacy.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/campaignspot.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=MjhjZWJlMGVlYmNjZjIwYWM3NGZlOTlmZDQ0MzI0ZmQ=\">Who Originated the &#8216;Nuclear Umbrella for Israel&#8217; Proposal? &#8211; Jim Geraghty &#8211; The Campaign Spot on National Review Online<\/a> &#8211; Charles Krauthammer wrote about it, Hillary Clinton advocated it, apparently.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monde-diplomatique.fr\/2008\/10\/HASS\/16363\">Cette &laquo; double autorit&eacute; &raquo; qui &eacute;cart&egrave;le les Palestiniens, par Amira Hass (Le Monde diplomatique)<\/a> &#8211; Hass on the division of what#039;s left of Palestine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for December 13th through December 14th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/middle_east\/article5338014.ece\">Gaza families eat grass as Israel locks border &#8211; Times Online<\/a> &#8211; &ldquo;We had one meal today &#8211; khobbeizeh,&rdquo; said Abu Amra, 43, showing the leaves of a plant that grows along the streets of Gaza. &ldquo;Every day, I wake up and start looking for wood and plastic to burn for fuel and I beg. When I find nothing, we eat this grass.&rdquo;<br \/>\nAbu Amra and her unemployed husband have seven daughters and a son. Their tiny breeze-block house has had no furniture since they burnt the last cupboard for heat.<br \/>\n&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t remember seeing a fruit,&rdquo; said Rabab, 12, who goes with her mother most mornings to scavenge. She is dressed in a tracksuit top and holed jeans, and her feet are bare.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/article\/20081212\/REVIEW\/322535509\/1008\">Border patrol &#8211; The National Newspaper<\/a> &#8211; On France#039;s sovereign wealth fund, which invests domestically, presumably to keep those nasty Arabs out of French boardrooms.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/article\/20081212\/REVIEW\/688614151\/1008\">Enemy mine &#8211; The National Newspaper<\/a> &#8211; Max Rodenbeck reviews Gilles Kepel#039;s quot;Beyond Terror and Martyrdomquot;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/rss\/mideast\/*http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20081214\/wl_nm\/us_palestinians_hamas_israel\">Hamas warns Israel truce coming to end<br \/>\n    (Reuters)<\/a> &#8211; Meshaal says from Damascus Hamas won#039;t renew six-month truce that wasn#039;t.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/outlookindia.com\/fullprint.asp?choice=1fodname=20081222fname=Amitavsid=1\">Confessions of a xenophile<\/a> &#8211; Indian writer Amitav Ghosh, author of quot;In An Antique Landquot;, reminisces about living in the Delta, empire and the non-aligned movement.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/mideast-africa\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12773168\">Diplomacy over Syria | Where shall I go next? | The Economist<\/a> &#8211; About Syria#039;s adept diplomacy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/campaignspot.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=MjhjZWJlMGVlYmNjZjIwYWM3NGZlOTlmZDQ0MzI0ZmQ=\">Who Originated the &#8216;Nuclear Umbrella for Israel&#8217; Proposal? &#8211; Jim Geraghty &#8211; The Campaign Spot on National Review Online<\/a> &#8211; Charles Krauthammer wrote about it, Hillary Clinton advocated it, apparently.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monde-diplomatique.fr\/2008\/10\/HASS\/16363\">Cette &laquo; double autorit&eacute; &raquo; qui &eacute;cart&egrave;le les Palestiniens, par Amira Hass (Le Monde diplomatique)<\/a> &#8211; Hass on the division of what#039;s left of Palestine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[211],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}