{"id":6105,"date":"2009-01-22T12:42:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T17:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6105"},"modified":"2009-01-22T12:42:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T17:42:49","slug":"saul-landau-reason-for-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6105","title":{"rendered":"Saul Landau: Reason for war?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Saul Landau, progreso-weekly.com, <a href=\"http:\/\/progreso-weekly.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=779&#038;Itemid=1\">22-28 January 2009<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/progreso-semanal.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=768&amp;Itemid=1\" target=\"_self\">Read Spanish Version<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On January 18, Israel and Hamas agreed to a weeklong cease-fire. Prime Minister Olmert declared Israel had achieved its objectives. \u201cHamas was hit hard, in its military arms and in its government institutions. Its leaders are in hiding and many of its men have been killed,\u201d said Olmert.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,100 Palestinians lay dead, more than a third women and children, countless more wounded and Gaza\u2019s physical infrastructure destroyed or badly damaged. Thirteen Israelis died. Hamas still rules Gaza &#8212; from within, but has no control of its borders &#8212; and presumably can still smuggle weapons in from Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>The truce is beyond shaky as President Obama takes office with an unqualified \u201cI support Israel\u201d policy and a core of Israeli kiss-asses for advisers (Dennis Ross and Martin Indyk as examples).<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/progreso-weekly.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=779&#038;Itemid=1\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Saul Landau, progreso-weekly.com, 22-28 January 2009 Read Spanish Version On January 18, Israel and Hamas agreed to a weeklong cease-fire. Prime Minister Olmert declared Israel had achieved its objectives. \u201cHamas was hit hard, in its military arms and in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6105\">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-6105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1At","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105","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=6105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6108,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105\/revisions\/6108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}