{"id":7675,"date":"2012-03-22T07:34:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T14:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7675"},"modified":"2012-03-22T07:34:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T14:34:45","slug":"the-lovely-gentle-and-beautiful-israeli-occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7675","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;lovely, gentle, and beautiful Israeli occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hebron-e1332426517579.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hebron-e1332426517579.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\" \" width=\"425\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7676\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Public radio station fires editor who dared to speak out about Israel\u2019s \u2018brutal military occupation\u2019<\/strong><br \/>\nby Philip Weiss &#8211; 22 March 22, 2012 &#8211; Mondoweiss News<\/p>\n<p>Ugly news about the American discourse, and the role of the Israel lobby inside liberal institutions. A longtime editor at a public radio station in Baltimore has been fired in part because he questioned US pandering to Israel. David Zurawik reports in the Baltimore Sun:<\/p>\n<p>    Sunni Khalid, managing news editor at WYPR-FM, has been dropped by the public radio station after more than nine years on the job there.<\/p>\n<p>    Khalid, a former Baltimore Sun reporter, had been on probation in February for comments he posted on the Facebook page of a friend questioning the influence of Israel on American politics.<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;I, for one, have had enough of this pandering before the Israeli regime,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;The war-mongering toward Iran has, once again, distracted the world from Israel&#8217;s brutal military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2012\/03\/public-radio-station-fires-editor-who-dared-to-speak-out-about-israels-brutal-military-occupation.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D7675&amp;text=The+%22lovely%2C+gentle%2C+and+beautiful+Israeli+occupation&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public radio station fires editor who dared to speak out about Israel\u2019s \u2018brutal military occupation\u2019 by Philip Weiss &#8211; 22 March 22, 2012 &#8211; Mondoweiss News Ugly news about the American discourse, and the role of the Israel lobby inside liberal institutions. A longtime editor at a public radio station in Baltimore has been fired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7675#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2738],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7678,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions\/7678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}