{"id":72203,"date":"2015-08-06T18:16:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T02:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72203"},"modified":"2023-09-10T07:34:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T15:34:47","slug":"nyt-soul-searching-in-israel-after-bias-attacks-on-gays-and-arabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72203","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Soul-Searching in Israel After Bias Attacks on Gays and Arabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect most Israelis are not terribly bothered by bias attacks on gays and Arabs. Most Israelis, like most Americans, don&#8217;t particularly care for parading gays and Arabs. A healthy society cares most about building up and strengthening its core and does not care much about its minorities except that they conform to core norms.<\/p>\n<p>Most Israelis wish that their enemies disappear just as many Americans wish wish their enemies disappear. Different groups have different interests. A healthy group cares primarily about its own health, not about &#8220;bias attacks.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/07\/world\/middleeast\/acts-of-violence-prompt-soul-searching-in-israel.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;module=first-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news&#038;_r=0\">NYT<\/a>: The back-to-back attacks a week ago, attributed to religious fanatics, set off a national outcry and reflection, with hundreds flocking here each night for a mixture of mourning and protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect most Israelis are not terribly bothered by bias attacks on gays and Arabs. Most Israelis, like most Americans, don&#8217;t particularly care for parading gays and Arabs. A healthy society cares most about building up and strengthening its core &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72203\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29615],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nationalism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151621,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72203\/revisions\/151621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}