{"id":2979,"date":"2011-05-26T23:42:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T22:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2011-05-27T00:21:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T23:21:48","slug":"bringing-the-plight-of-gilad-shalit-to-attention-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/05\/26\/bringing-the-plight-of-gilad-shalit-to-attention-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing the plight of Gilad Shalit to attention of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweet_button124\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/05\/26\/bringing-the-plight-of-gilad-shalit-to-attention-of-the-world\/\" data-text=\"Bringing the plight of Gilad Shalit to attention of the world - Ray Cook - As I See It\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-lang=\"en\" data-via=\"tweetbutton\"  data-related=\"coderplus:Wordpress Tips and more.\"><\/a><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/gilad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2981\" title=\"gilad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/gilad-300x84.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/gilad-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/gilad.jpg 582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Gal Sitty, an Israeli living in Los Angeles is trying the sort of in-your-face campaigning that we more often see from Israel&#8217;s opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt Gilad Shalit is a hostage, held in Gaza by Hamas who kidnapped him almost 5 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>His crime was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time; a soldier protecting Israel&#8217;s borders.<\/p>\n<p>Despite several attempts to broker a deal, Shalit still languishes somewhere in Gaza &#8211; as far as we know.<\/p>\n<p>Gal Sitty has decided to buy billboard space near the UN headquarters in New York City in a bold move to get the message to a wider audience and the UN in particular.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to raise $10,000 via this web site:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epicstep.com\/campaign\/231\/free-gilad-shalit\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/epicstep.com\/campaign\/231\/free-gilad-shalit\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can read more about Gal and his campaign in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/JewishWorld\/JewishNews\/Article.aspx?id=219764\" target=\"_blank\">Jerusalem Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweet_button124\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/05\/26\/bringing-the-plight-of-gilad-shalit-to-attention-of-the-world\/\" data-text=\"Bringing the plight of Gilad Shalit to attention of the world - Ray Cook - As I See It\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-lang=\"en\" data-via=\"tweetbutton\"  data-related=\"coderplus:Wordpress Tips and more.\"><\/a><\/div><p>Gal Sitty, an Israeli living in Los Angeles is trying the sort of in-your-face campaigning that we more often see from Israel&#8217;s opponents. Sgt Gilad Shalit is a hostage, held in Gaza by Hamas who kidnapped him almost 5 years ago. His crime was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[930,929,133,37],"class_list":["post-2979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel-and-gaza","tag-free-gilad-shalit","tag-gal-sitty","tag-gilad-shalit","tag-un","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2985,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}