{"id":12324,"date":"2011-05-16T12:13:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T11:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=12324"},"modified":"2011-05-16T12:13:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T11:13:28","slug":"may-15-2011-63-years-of-nakba-video-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/05\/may-15-2011-63-years-of-nakba-video-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"May 15, 2011: 63 Years of Nakba (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That the 15th of May 1948 never be forgot. And that Palestinians may have their freedoms and rights back; especially the right of return to the land of their ancestors, where they were born.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bIO4W3nxGaM&amp;feature=player_embedded<\/p>\n<p>I\u00b4m sick of The WallI\u00b4m sick of the checkpoints between Palestinian cities<br \/>\nI\u00b4m sick of illegal Israeli settlers and settlements<br \/>\nI\u00b4m sick of having the Hebrew language on my ID card<br \/>\nI\u00b4m sick of people not knowing anything about our history<br \/>\nbut knowing so much about Jewish history<\/p>\n<p>I\u00b4m sick of people ignoring the Palestinian Right of Return<br \/>\nand accepting the Jewish Law of Return<br \/>\nI\u00b4m sick of the Oslo Agreement which no one here<br \/>\nwanted in the first place<\/p>\n<p>I\u00b4m sick of the Palestinian Authority<br \/>\nhaving zero authority<br \/>\nI\u00b4m sick of watching my father being humiliated at checkpoints<br \/>\nby people my age and younger<\/p>\n<p>I\u00b4m sick of my international friends having to lie about<br \/>\ncoming to visit; being interrogated, strip searched<br \/>\nand sometimes deported in the process<br \/>\nI\u00b4m sick of people not understanding<br \/>\nwhat &#8220;Occupation&#8221; is<\/p>\n<p>I\u00b4m sick of being scared all the time<br \/>\nI\u00b4m sick of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder<br \/>\nbeing a normal state of being here in Palestine<br \/>\nI\u00b4m sick of how ineffective the UN has become<br \/>\nI\u00b4m sick of International Humanitarian Law<br \/>\nnot applying to the State of Israel<\/p>\n<p>I\u00b4m sick of how fighting for basic human rights for Palestinians<br \/>\nor being critical of Israeli policy<br \/>\nis so often labeled &#8220;anti-Semitic&#8221;<br \/>\nI\u00b4m sick of the fact that everybody forgets I\u00b4m a Semite<br \/>\nI\u00b4m sick of hearing Israelis complain about discrimination<br \/>\nwhen the State of Israel was founded on a principle of ethnic purity<\/p>\n<p>I\u00b4m sick of living in a time<br \/>\nwhen racial profiling has become acceptable<br \/>\nI\u00b4m sick of constantly being treated as a suspect<br \/>\nI\u00b4m sick of how mainstream media portrays us and our situation<\/p>\n<p>I\u00b4m sick of the whole world caring about Gilad Shalit<br \/>\nwhen there are more than 7,000 Palestinians inside Israeli prisons<br \/>\nI\u00b4m sick of trying to defend myself, friends or countrymen<br \/>\nand being labeled a terrorist<\/p>\n<p>I\u00b4m sick of the fact that everywhere I go<br \/>\nI can see The Wall, a settlement or an Israeli soldier<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u00b4m sick of 63 years of Israeli occupation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That the 15th of May 1948 never be forgot. And that Palestinians may have their freedoms and rights back; especially the right of return to the land of their ancestors, where they were born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-video-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}