{"id":2896,"date":"2018-05-16T08:23:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T13:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2018-05-16T08:28:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T13:28:37","slug":"there-is-no-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/2018\/05\/there-is-no-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"There is no peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2897\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2897 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1109\/2018\/05\/palestine-reuters.jpg\" alt=\"palestine-reuters\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Reuters<em><br \/><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>A statement from Emilie M. Townes, dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School, regarding the recent events in Gaza.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was shocked into speechlessness and a growing sense of horror, sorrow, and mourning when I opened up my Facebook feed on Monday morning. As the death toll and injury count of Palestinian protestors rose throughout the day, I realized once again that land, freedom, protest, sovereignty, and violence joined to create the deadly imbalance of heavily armed soldiers firing on mostly unarmed demonstrators who were trying to breach the fence.<\/p>\n<p>There are no simple solutions in the Middle East where the re-formation of Israel and the loss of Palestinians\u2019 homes sit side-by-side.\u00a0 But the death of unarmed protestors, now numbering 60 by some accounts and the injuring of thousands more is not a solution, it is a tragedy.\u00a0 Each side has contributed to the violence, each side blames the other for it.\u00a0 The move of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem has only exacerbated the situation and the notion of peace is left wanting.\u00a0 The sad reality is that the parties\u2014Hamas, the Israeli government, and now the U.S.\u2014are resorting to deadly force and retaliation rather than negotiation and listening.\u00a0 The Palestinian Authority looks reactive and ineffectual.\u00a0 And families and friends are left to mourn their dead and there is no peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statement from Emilie M. Townes, dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School, regarding the recent events in Gaza. I was shocked into speechlessness and a growing sense of horror, sorrow, and mourning when I opened up my Facebook feed on Monday morning. As the death toll and injury count of Palestinian protestors rose throughout the day,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6668,"featured_media":2897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2905,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions\/2905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}