{"id":900,"date":"2009-01-16T20:12:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T01:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2009\/01\/16\/the-war-must-stop-now-from-_democracy-now-palestinian-astrophysicist-in-us-recounts-how-his-11-year-old-son-died-when-israeli-warplanes-bombed-his-familys-house\/"},"modified":"2009-01-16T20:12:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T01:12:18","slug":"the-war-must-stop-now-from-_democracy-now-palestinian-astrophysicist-in-us-recounts-how-his-11-year-old-son-died-when-israeli-warplanes-bombed-his-familys-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/16\/the-war-must-stop-now-from-_democracy-now-palestinian-astrophysicist-in-us-recounts-how-his-11-year-old-son-died-when-israeli-warplanes-bombed-his-familys-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The War Must Stop Now!  from _Democracy Now! &#124; Palestinian Astrophysicist in US Recounts How His 11-Year-Old Son Died When Israeli Warplanes Bombed His Family&#039;s House"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Palestinian Astrophysicist in US Recounts How His 11-Year-Old Son Died When Israeli Warplanes Bombed His Family\u2019s House<br \/>\nBarakasuweb<br \/>\nAs the Palestinian death toll in Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza climbs above 1,100, we take a look behind the statistics. Suleiman Baraka is a Palestinian astrophysicist working at Virgnia Tech with NASA. His eleven-year-old son Ibrahim was killed in an Israeli air strike on his house. His wife and three other children are now homeless in Gaza, along with seventeen members of his family. In his first broadcast interview in the US, Suleiman Baraka tells his story. We also speak with Suleiman\u2019s brother, Sayed, who arrived at the house seconds after it was bombed. [includes rush transcript]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2009\/1\/16\/palestinian_father_in_us_recounts_how\">Democracy Now! | Palestinian Astrophysicist in US Recounts How His 11-Year-Old Son Died When Israeli Warplanes Bombed His Family&#8217;s House<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian Astrophysicist in US Recounts How His 11-Year-Old Son Died When Israeli Warplanes Bombed His Family\u2019s House Barakasuweb As the Palestinian death toll in Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza climbs above 1,100, we take a look behind the statistics. Suleiman Baraka is a Palestinian astrophysicist working at Virgnia Tech with NASA. His eleven-year-old son Ibrahim was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/16\/the-war-must-stop-now-from-_democracy-now-palestinian-astrophysicist-in-us-recounts-how-his-11-year-old-son-died-when-israeli-warplanes-bombed-his-familys-house\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The War Must Stop Now!  from _Democracy Now! &#124; Palestinian Astrophysicist in US Recounts How His 11-Year-Old Son Died When Israeli Warplanes Bombed His Family&#039;s House&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}