{"id":1289,"date":"2024-01-28T10:41:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T10:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2024-01-29T10:53:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T10:53:05","slug":"1289","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/01\/1289\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes among the civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/jeffdanziger\/2024\/01\/27\">a cartoon<\/a> about the Israeli response in the Gaza strip on GoComics, someone wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do not look for heroes in this conflict. There are victims and terrorists on both sides.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I felt compelled to reply.<\/p>\n<p>There <i>are<\/i> heroes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The war reporters. Over 80 dead and many imprisoned.<\/li>\n<li>The aid workers. Over 100 UN aid workers dead.<\/li>\n<li>The medics. Over 280 healthcare workers killed and at least 14 strikes on Doctors Without Borders medical facilities or vehicles.<\/li>\n<li>Then the less glamorous ones who are trying to keep the sanitation working, digging people and bodies from buildings, burying corpses, trying to identify people\u2019s remains.<\/li>\n<li>And there will be countless incredible feats of courage by civilians that will never be known or recognised.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No medals for any of the above though. Medals are saved for the people with the armour and guns and creating the harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to a cartoon about the Israeli response in the Gaza strip on GoComics, someone wrote: Do not look for heroes in this conflict. There are victims and terrorists on both sides. I felt compelled to reply. There are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/01\/1289\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,102,101,385,227],"tags":[135,104,103,386,228],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airstrikes-kill-civilians","category-bombing-for-peace","category-escalation","category-revenge","category-terrorism","tag-airstrikes-kill-civilians","tag-bombing-for-peace","tag-escalation","tag-revenge","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}