{"id":68,"date":"2002-06-17T06:05:07","date_gmt":"2002-06-17T13:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2002-06-17T06:05:07","modified_gmt":"2002-06-17T13:05:07","slug":"fence-sitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2002\/06\/fence-sitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Fence sitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many Jews does it take to change a light bulb? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jr.co.il\/humor\/lbulb.txt\">It depends<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How many Israelis does it take to put up a fence between Israel and Palestine? <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.haaretz.co.il\/hasen\/pages\/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=176982&amp;contrassID=2&amp;subContrassID=1&amp;sbSubContrassID=0\">It depends on your definition of &#8216;fence&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, this is not the fence that I think is in the best interests of Israelis to put up. My fence would follow pre-1967 borders and involve the removal of Israeli settlers. The <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/020617\/161\/1phj3.html\">&#8216;security fence&#8217;<\/a> being built roughly follows those borders, but cuts off from Palestine Palestinian towns that straddle the &#8216;green line&#8217;. This fence will also separate a few Israeli farmers from their fields, but more importantly, put a good number of settlers on the &#8220;wrong&#8221; side of a proto-border, for want of a better term. Temperary security fences have a habit of sticking around for a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many Jews does it take to change a light bulb? It depends. How many Israelis does it take to put up a fence between Israel and Palestine? It depends on your definition of &#8216;fence&#8217;. Needless to say, this is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2002\/06\/fence-sitting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-economics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-16","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}