{"id":183516,"date":"2013-02-06T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T01:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/06\/facepalm-3\/"},"modified":"2013-02-06T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T01:41:00","slug":"facepalm-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/06\/facepalm-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Facepalm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XmLh7.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"330\" \/>Yes, considering the disaster that was the Israeli rump state in Lebanon, the idea that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesundaytimes.co.uk\/sto\/news\/world_news\/Middle_East\/article1206608.ece\">Israel is planning to establish a &#8220;buffer zone&#8221; in Syria<\/a> does not bode well:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">ISRAEL is considering creating a buffer zone reaching up to 10 miles inside Syria to protect itself from fundamentalist rebels on the other side of the border.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The proposal, which has been drawn up by the military and presented to Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, is intended to secure the 47-mile border against a growing Islamist threat if President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s embattled regime loses control of the area.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The buffer would be modelled on the Lebanese security zone, in which the Israeli defence forces patrolled jointly with the South Lebanon army, a militia, up to 16 miles inside Lebanon from 1985 to 2000.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, and that whole Lebanese buffer zone worked <b>so<\/b> f%$#ing well.&nbsp; derf<\/p>\n<p>This is insanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, considering the disaster that was the Israeli rump state in Lebanon, the idea that Israel is planning to establish a &#8220;buffer zone&#8221; in Syria does not bode well: ISRAEL is considering creating a buffer zone reaching up to 10 miles inside Syria to protect itself from fundamentalist rebels on the other side of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,1159,986,1006,1021,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-military","category-religion","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}