{"id":5401,"date":"2025-12-28T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=5401"},"modified":"2025-12-28T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:36:10","slug":"this-sounds-very-bad-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2025\/12\/28\/this-sounds-very-bad-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"This Sounds Very Bad To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that clicked for me in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/danielgordis.substack.com\/p\/peace-in-the-middle-east-the-first?utm_campaign=email-post&amp;r=bz1iw&amp;utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">this<\/a><\/em> is the fact that UNWRA has an interest in identifying people as refugees, presumably a temporary status which includes a right to either re-settle or to return to where they came from rather than stay where they are.\u00a0 And I can see why many Israelis might find this problematic.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I don&#8217;t see how the &#8220;right of return&#8221; claimed by Palestinian refugees and their relatively immediate descendants is an &#8220;ideology&#8221; that requires &#8220;destruction&#8221; any more than that claimed by the multi-generational descendants of the Jews who were expelled from the same land 2000 years ago. Or how &#8220;destruction of the ideology at the heart of Palestinian identity&#8221; would be interpreted by the people in this podcast if the word &#8220;Palestinian&#8221; were replaced with &#8220;Israeli&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/danielgordis.substack.com\/p\/peace-in-the-middle-east-the-first?utm_campaign=email-post&amp;r=bz1iw&amp;utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">Peace in the Middle East? The first thing that needs to happen is the destruction of the ideology at the heart of Palestinian identity.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that clicked for me in this is the fact that UNWRA has an interest in identifying people as refugees, presumably a temporary status which includes a right to either re-settle or to return to where they came from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2025\/12\/28\/this-sounds-very-bad-to-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5403,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions\/5403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}