{"id":633,"date":"2006-07-20T14:38:50","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T18:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=633"},"modified":"2007-07-31T03:02:37","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T07:02:37","slug":"roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"Roses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why doesn&#8217;t every critic of Hizbullah, Hamas, Palestinian Authority, Palestinians, etc. automatically become an anti-Arab, or a racist, or pro-evil? Why is it that when someone criticizes Israel, they automatically become anti-Semites, racists, or unbalanced and unfair? Why don&#8217;t the former have to &#8220;equally condemn&#8221; the hundreds, thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians who have been killed? Why is the onus on critics of Israel to also pause and &#8220;equally condemn&#8221; the Israeli civilians who have been killed? Why is it okay for Israel to act any which way it desires out of &#8220;self-defense&#8221; (or even when it isn&#8217;t defending itself), but not okay for Hamas to act against occupation?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I know you&#8217;d like to think your shit don&#8217;t stink<br \/>\nBut lean a little bit closer<br \/>\nSee that roses really smell like poo-poo<br \/>\nYeah, roses really smell like poo-poo<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Roses' st_url='http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=633' ><\/span><span class='st_twitter' st_title='Roses' st_url='http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=633' ><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Roses' st_url='http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=633' ><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Roses' st_url='http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=633' ><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why doesn&#8217;t every critic of Hizbullah, Hamas, Palestinian Authority, Palestinians, etc. automatically become an anti-Arab, or a racist, or pro-evil? Why is it that when someone criticizes Israel, they automatically become anti-Semites, racists, or unbalanced and unfair? Why don&#8217;t the former have to &#8220;equally condemn&#8221; the hundreds, thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians who have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Roses' st_url='http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=633' ><\/span><span class='st_twitter' st_title='Roses' st_url='http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=633' ><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Roses' st_url='http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=633' ><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Roses' st_url='http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=633' ><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}