{"id":41350,"date":"2014-09-05T09:40:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T16:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41350"},"modified":"2014-09-05T09:40:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T16:40:56","slug":"palestinian-american-lawyer-legally-challenges-us-aid-to-israel-over-gaza-family-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/09\/05\/palestinian-american-lawyer-legally-challenges-us-aid-to-israel-over-gaza-family-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian American Lawyer Legally Challenges US Aid to Israel Over Gaza Family Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140905Uprising\/2014_09_05_akram_abusharar.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Akram Abusharar <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140905Uprising\/2014_09_05_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/akram_abusharar.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The late comedic actress Joan Rivers, who died yesterday at the age of 81, made, as one of her last public statements, vicious comments about Palestinian casualties of Israel&#8217;s war on Gaza. She famously told a reporter at LA airport that Palestinians deserved to die. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it is fitting that an American&#8217;s perspective on a conflict half a world away is relevant. After all, the US finances Israeli weaponry to the tune of billions of dollars of tax payers money per year. <\/p>\n<p>Now, a Palestinian American lawyer is suing US government officials over that financial support, which he says makes the US complicit in Israel&#8217;s killing of his family members. <\/p>\n<p>Akram Abusharar filed his suit about a month ago, against Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. In it he cites the deaths of dozens of family members over the years, as a result of Israeli policies and military actions. <\/p>\n<p>The United Nations has concluded that over 2,100 Palestinians were killed in Gaza during Israel&#8217;s most recent 50-day Operation Protective Edge, 70% of whom were civilians. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Akram Abusharar, Palestinian American lawyer based in Anaheim, Orange County<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late comedic actress Joan Rivers, who died yesterday at the age of 81, made, as one of her last public statements, vicious comments about Palestinian casualties of Israel&#8217;s war on Gaza. She famously told a reporter at LA airport that Palestinians deserved to die. Perhaps it is fitting that an American&#8217;s perspective on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41355,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41350\/revisions\/41355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}