{"id":185911,"date":"2014-07-17T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/17\/oh-crap-9\/"},"modified":"2014-07-17T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T23:29:00","slug":"oh-crap-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/17\/oh-crap-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/18\/world\/middleeast\/israel-gaza-strip.html\">begun ground operations against Gaza<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Israeli tanks rolled into the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday night and naval gunboats pounded targets in the south as Israel began a ground invasion after 10 days of aerial bombardment failed to stop Palestinian militants from showering Israeli cities with rockets.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Israeli leaders said the incursion was a limited one focused on tunnels into its territory like the one used for a predawn attack Thursday that was thwarted. They said it was not intended to topple Hamas, the militant Islamist movement, from its longtime rule of Gaza.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">As rockets continued to rain down on Israeli cities, a military spokesman said the mission\u2019s expansion was \u201cnot time bound\u201d and was aimed to ensure Hamas operatives were \u201cpursued, paralyzed and threatened\u201d as it targeted \u201cterrorist infrastructure\u201d in the north, south and east of Gaza \u201cin parallel.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only agenda that will be served by this is Bibi Netanyahu&#8217;s electoral ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has begun ground operations against Gaza: Israeli tanks rolled into the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday night and naval gunboats pounded targets in the south as Israel began a ground invasion after 10 days of aerial bombardment failed to stop Palestinian militants from showering Israeli cities with rockets.Israeli leaders said the incursion was a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[986,1076,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-terrorism","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185911"}],"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=185911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}