{"id":1081,"date":"2010-09-13T23:17:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T23:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=521"},"modified":"2010-09-13T23:17:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T23:17:25","slug":"israeli-palestinian-conflict-soccer-and-deadly-misquitoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":"Israeli \/ Palestinian Conflict, soccer and deadly misquitoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was interviewed by a reporter from AOL News. \u00a0 \u00a0He asked me, among other things, my take on the Israeli \/ Palestinian Conflict. \u00a0 I said that I believed the Israelis were participating in an illegal land grab that’s forbidden by the Geneva Convention. \u00a0 That is, it is prohibited that an occupying country can settle it’s own civilians on militarily controlled lands. \u00a0 In east Jerusalem, for instance, the Israelis are building 900 new homes as part of the Gilo settlement. \u00a0 I said as president I would push for a moratorium on these types of settlements, and I would push for a two state solution… \u00a0 We are staying at a friend’s farm in rural Bluffton, Ohio. \u00a0 They have a soccer net up against an old barn. \u00a0 Near sunset, I walked out to watch our kids play soccer with a couple boys on the farm. \u00a0 The corn in the background, an orange sky, kids running about playing and laughing, a soccer ball aloft… \u00a0 It was such a sort of Norman Rockwell scene. \u00a0 Earlier today in Findlay, Ohio, a man named Ray, who grew up in a ghetto area of Montreal, Canada, said to me: \u00a0 “Many people in small town America have no idea what an absolute blessing it is to live here.” …I was reading a National Geographic<\/em><\/strong> article about malaria tonight. \u00a0 In Zambia, one of the major reasons 20% of all children there die before they are five, is because of malaria. \u00a0 Tragically, many of these children never even get a chance to kick a soccer ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was interviewed by a reporter from AOL News. \u00a0 \u00a0He asked me, among other things, my take on the Israeli \/ Palestinian Conflict. \u00a0 I said that I believed the Israelis were participating in an illegal land grab that’s …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}