{"id":189,"date":"2006-10-26T12:34:28","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T10:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2006-10-26T12:34:28","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T10:34:28","slug":"robert-rosenberg-1951-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/robert-rosenberg-1951-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Rosenberg, 1951-2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1996, I began writing a weekly blog (before there were such things as blogs) called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/bibiwatch\/\">BibiWATCH<\/a>.  That was how I met Robert Rosenberg.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imeu.net\/engine\/uploads\/robert_rosenberg.gif\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"right\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Photo: Robert Rosenberg in Tel-Aviv.<\/i><br \/>\nRobert had created one of the first websites devoted to peace in the Middle East &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ariga.com\/\">Ariga<\/a> &#8212; a year earlier, in 1995.  He was a big fan of what I was doing to Netanyahu week after week, and the admiration was mutual.<br \/>\nIn the third issue of BibiWATCH, I published this exchange:<br \/>\n<em>Tres cool site &#8212; your link will be added to Ariga &#8212; and hope you can quote Ariga occasionally. &#8212; Robert Rosenberg, Israel<br \/>\nReaders of BibiWATCH are encouraged to check out Robert&#8217;s &#8220;Ariga&#8221; site; it&#8217;s excellent.<\/em><br \/>\nLater, Robert would host BibiWATCH on the Ariga site &#8212; for free.<br \/>\nWe got together, sipped espresso in an outdoor cafe in his beloved Tel-Aviv,  spent a weekend shmoozing at my kibbutz Ein Dor, and stayed in touch pretty regularly until I moved to London in 1998.<br \/>\nRobert pioneered the use of the new communications technology to further the most important cause of all &#8212; peace.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/779452.html\">His untimely death from cancer at the age of 54<\/a> means that he will never see the realization of his dream of Jewish-Arab reconciliation.<br \/>\nRobert was a character.  A former crime writer, he went on to write a number of crime novels based in Israel.  By coincidence, I picked up one in New York in August &#8212; one I hadn&#8217;t yet read.<br \/>\nMay his memory be blessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1996, I began writing a weekly blog (before there were such things as blogs) called BibiWATCH. That was how I met Robert Rosenberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}