{"id":192750,"date":"2009-02-25T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/25\/if-there-is-an-organization-more-capable-of-sabotaging-itself-than-fatah\/"},"modified":"2009-02-25T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T03:04:00","slug":"if-there-is-an-organization-more-capable-of-sabotaging-itself-than-fatah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/25\/if-there-is-an-organization-more-capable-of-sabotaging-itself-than-fatah\/","title":{"rendered":"If There Is An Organization More Capable of Sabotaging Itself Than Fatah&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that there was a deal to open the borders to Gaza.  It seems to have involved a prisoner release by Israel and the PA in exchange for the release of Gilad Shalit, but <a href=\"http:\/\/jta.org\/news\/article\/2009\/02\/25\/1003264\/hamas-pa-quashed-shalit-deal\">PA walked away from the deal<\/a>, &#8220;because the Fatah officials believed it would weaken them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These guys really don&#8217;t have a clue.  If Hamas releases Shalit, is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">ready<\/span> to release Shalit, even with a significant release by the Israelis is going to be a net minus for Hamas, because it removes a bargaining chip from their hand, and because it means that they have negotiated a deal.<\/p>\n<p>But the leadership of the PA is so damn timid, they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that there was a deal to open the borders to Gaza. It seems to have involved a prisoner release by Israel and the PA in exchange for the release of Gilad Shalit, but PA walked away from the deal, &#8220;because the Fatah officials believed it would weaken them.&#8221; These guys really don&#8217;t have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1159,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-israel","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192750"}],"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=192750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}