{"id":982,"date":"2018-10-19T11:43:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T08:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/?p=982"},"modified":"2018-10-19T11:47:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T08:47:01","slug":"the-first-palestinian-in-jerusalems-city-hall-new-york-times-aug-10-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/2018\/10\/19\/the-first-palestinian-in-jerusalems-city-hall-new-york-times-aug-10-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Palestinian in Jerusalem’s City Hall? (New York Times, Aug. 10, 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ramadan Dabash doesn\u2019t care if you call him a collaborator.<\/strong><\/p>\n

JERUSALEM \u2014 Western observers interested in Jerusalem can be forgiven for thinking the most politically significant building in this city is a low limestone edifice featuring American flags and Marines \u2014 the embassy opened in May by the Trump administration to international fanfare and criticism. But anyone attentive to the fate of this place in the summer of 2018 would be advised to look past the embassy to an obscure structure a half-mile to the south.<\/p>\n

This building has no flags at all. Instead there are Arabic books on a wheeled shelf in the lobby, a few boys with soccer haircuts and girls with hijabs, and a modest sign welcoming you to the community center of Sur Baher.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s there, in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sur Baher \u2014 a four-minute drive from my Jewish Israeli neighborhood of Talpiot \u2014 that you can find Ramadan Dabash, the center\u2019s chairman, who\u2019s running a renegade campaign for a seat on Jerusalem\u2019s City Council.<\/p>\n

In a city where more than a third of the 860,000 residents are Palestinian, there should be nothing strange about Mr. Dabash\u2019s candidacy. But a victory in the Oct. 30 election would make him the first Palestinian representative at City Hall \u2014 and the personification of a political shift that isn\u2019t making headlines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

(Read the whole thing\u00a0here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ramadan Dabash doesn\u2019t care if you call him a collaborator. JERUSALEM \u2014 Western observers interested in Jerusalem can be forgiven for thinking the most politically significant building in this city is a low limestone edifice featuring American flags and Marines \u2014 the embassy opened in May by the Trump administration to international fanfare and criticism. But anyone attentive to the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982"}],"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=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}