{"id":16643,"date":"2012-02-07T09:23:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T15:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16643"},"modified":"2012-02-07T09:59:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T15:59:28","slug":"a-g-noorani-syria-needs-diplomacy-not-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16643","title":{"rendered":"A. G. Noorani: Syria needs diplomacy, not intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A. G. Noorani<br \/>\n7 February 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>If anything, the pursuit of regime change is hurting the international community&#8217;s ability to end the crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s government has used brute force to crush a genuine popular upheaval against his regime. The death toll is nearly 6,000. Human rights have been systematically violated. But the crucial question is how and what steps can international society lawfully take to bring an end to the crisis.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/lead\/article2866489.ece?homepage=true\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;Syria needs diplomacy, not intervention&#8221; by A. G. Noorani<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Related<\/em>:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/english.al-akhbar.com\/content\/lavrov-syria-diplomatic-fallout-continues\">Syria to call referendum; West, Gulf recall envoys<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. G. Noorani 7 February 2012 If anything, the pursuit of regime change is hurting the international community&#8217;s ability to end the crisis. President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s government has used brute force to crush a genuine popular upheaval against his regime. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16643\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4kr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16665,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16643\/revisions\/16665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}