{"id":889,"date":"2016-10-14T15:44:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T12:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/?p=889"},"modified":"2016-10-14T15:52:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T12:52:03","slug":"jrb-review-fall-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/2016\/10\/14\/jrb-review-fall-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"JRB review, Fall 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Cedar of Lebanon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2016<\/p>\n<p>Amy Newman Smith<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"firstcap\">M<\/span>atti Friedman came home from Outpost Pumpkin, where he was based during his tour of duty in Lebanon, not long before Israel made the decision to withdraw from the \u201csecurity zone.\u201d \u201cWhen the army pulled out of Lebanon, I was happy. I thought that the problem was resolved by the withdrawal,\u201d he recently told an interviewer<em>.\u00a0<\/em>But within months the Israeli-Palestinian peace process had fallen apart and Hezbollah, in control of the area Israel held between 1985 and 2000, crossed the border, capturing and killing three IDF soldiers. \u201cI started to understand that things don\u2019t work the way we want them to work, and that the Middle East does not respond to our dictates or desires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(The full review <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishreviewofbooks.com\/articles\/2275\/a-cedar-of-lebanon\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cedar of Lebanon Jewish Review of Books, Fall 2016 Amy Newman Smith Matti Friedman came home from Outpost Pumpkin, where he was based during his tour of duty in Lebanon, not long before Israel made the decision to withdraw from the \u201csecurity zone.\u201d \u201cWhen the army pulled out of Lebanon, I was happy. I thought that the problem was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}