{"id":2590,"date":"2011-01-15T06:39:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T06:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2011-01-15T06:39:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T06:39:31","slug":"an_interesting_bit_of_informat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2590","title":{"rendered":"An Interesting Bit Of Information About The Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=10699796\">New Zealand Herald<\/a>&nbsp;features a story about the results of a very interesting poll.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The poll, published this week, asked 1000 Arab residents of East Jerusalem if they would prefer becoming citizens of a Palestinian state or of Israel. Thirty five per cent chose Israel. Thirty per cent chose Palestine.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The&nbsp;article also points out that when the wall was being built to protect Israel from terrorist attacks, many Palestinians made sure they lived on the Israeli side of the wall&#8211;living conditions were better, employment opportunities were better, etc.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The article concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The results do not negate the authenticity of the Palestinians&#8217; desire for a state of their own, something that history has denied them until now. The polls suggest, however, that in real life jobs and political stability trump the fanfare of history.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Among other things, I think it is very interesting that the author of this article points out that &#8220;history has denied them (the Palestinians, a state of their own) until now.&#8221;&nbsp; Doesn&#8217;t that totally undermine their supposed&nbsp;justification for wanting to be a state&#8211;that it was their land?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s edition of the New Zealand Herald&nbsp;features a story about the results of a very interesting poll.&nbsp; According to the article: &#8220;The poll, published this week, asked 1000 Arab residents of East Jerusalem if they would prefer becoming citizens of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2590\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}