{"id":189042,"date":"2010-06-02T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/02\/does-jordan-river-water-make-you-stupid\/"},"modified":"2010-06-02T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T17:34:00","slug":"does-jordan-river-water-make-you-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/02\/does-jordan-river-water-make-you-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Jordan River Water Make You Stupid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because it does appear that stupidity is way too common in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point:  After 9 deaths, and a major propaganda victory, Hamas is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/WORLD\/meast\/06\/02\/israel.palestinians.aid\/\">refusing the supplies that the ships were trying to deliver<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Israel has attempted to deliver humanitarian aid from an international flotilla to Gaza, but Hamas &#8212; which controls the territory &#8212; has refused to accept the cargo, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Palestinian sources confirmed that trucks that arrived from Israel at the Rafah terminal at the Israel-Gaza border were barred from delivering the aid.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does this place make people stupid-crazy, or is it that the people who aren&#8217;t stupid-crazy simply leave?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just wondering, because there has been an endemic of stupid over the past 72 hours or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it does appear that stupidity is way too common in the Middle East. Case in point: After 9 deaths, and a major propaganda victory, Hamas is refusing the supplies that the ships were trying to deliver: Israel has attempted to deliver humanitarian aid from an international flotilla to Gaza, but Hamas &#8212; which controls &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1159,986,982,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-stupid","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}