{"id":1181,"date":"2021-03-21T01:46:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T01:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2021-03-21T01:52:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T01:52:39","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-abed-salama-by-nathan-thrall-the-new-york-review-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Life of Abed\u00a0Salama | by Nathan Thrall | The New York Review of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the shadow of the Israeli separation wall, one man\u2019s quest to find his son.<br \/>\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/19\/a-day-in-the-life-of-abed-salama\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NYR%20Online%20Nathan%20Thrall&amp;utm_content=NYR%20Online%20Nathan%20Thrall+CID_0b0d244742d202df79a74695300276a3&amp;utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_term=A%20Day%20in%20the%20Life%20of%20Abed%20Salama\">www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/19\/a-day-in-the-life-of-abed-salama\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is important enough that the Review is making it freely available for the next two weeks, over the period covering the Israeli elections. \u00a0As the editor of the Review says, the author is debunking the uncritical assumptions about the situtation, such as<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cthe view prevalent among American elites that in Israel-Palestine there are two national movements\u2014Jewish and Palestinian\u2014that have equally legitimate legal and moral claims to the same piece of land, which must be divided in the form of a partition\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>But the lived reality is that of an intentional apartheid state.  As he says,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cEvery aspect of that analysis is wrong,\u201d he told me. \u201cBecause most of the liberal elite support a two-state partition, the starting point of their understanding is not the reality on the ground but rather their preferred \u2018solution.\u2019 I wanted to put aside these ideological framings and simply describe reality as it exists today: Israel not just controls but fully administers over 90 percent of the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and the Palestinians have very limited autonomy in the remaining less than 10 percent.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The discussion of the schism amongst the liberal Zionists and the traditional and religious factions is illuminating.  And the story overall is a tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the shadow of the Israeli separation wall, one man\u2019s quest to find his son.\u2014 Read on www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/19\/a-day-in-the-life-of-abed-salama\/ This is important enough that the Review is making it freely available for the next two weeks, over the period covering the Israeli elections. \u00a0As the editor of the Review says, the author is debunking the uncritical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}