{"id":158,"date":"2006-07-21T19:00:35","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/21\/disproportionate-mercy\/"},"modified":"2006-07-21T19:00:35","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T16:00:35","slug":"disproportionate-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/21\/disproportionate-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Disproportionate mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, as I was watching CNN (we get CNN Europe, which, I am told differs from CNN in the USA and I hope that is correct) I became outraged.  One of the talking heads was talking about the middle east and all of the terrible things that are happening here.  She (I think it was a she; I at first tried to repress this because I didn&#8217;t want to become hypertensive) was talking about how people were affected and spoke of &#8220;the refugees from Lebanon arriving in Syria with tales of horror&#8221; and the Israelis &#8220;watching missiles land.&#8221;  Now let&#8217;s see:  I suppose the woman in Nahariya who saw her husband approaching the shelter where she and her small children were taking refuge and then saw him be so obliterated by a direct missile hit that there were only a few small pieces left could be said to have watched a missile land.  That is indeed true.  But I, as a somewhat compassionate person would be tempted to think of that as a tale of horror.<\/p>\n<p>But wait&#8230;. I have forgotten something&#8230;. he was a Jew.  When Jews are killed, well, that&#8217;s OK.  When arabs are killed, that&#8217;s horror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, as I was watching CNN (we get CNN Europe, which, I am told differs from CNN in the USA and I hope that is correct) I became outraged. One of the talking heads was talking about the middle east and all of the terrible things that are happening here. She (I think it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}