{"id":192802,"date":"2009-02-18T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/18\/israel-demanding-shalit-return-in-exchange-for-truce\/"},"modified":"2009-02-18T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T23:36:00","slug":"israel-demanding-shalit-return-in-exchange-for-truce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/18\/israel-demanding-shalit-return-in-exchange-for-truce\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Demanding Shalit Return in Exchange for Truce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not going to happen, because if Hamas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2009\/02\/18\/mideast\/18mideast.php\">cuts a deal to release Shalit<\/a>, even if it gets a truce and (somewhat more) open borders, it cuts its own throat.<\/p>\n<p>Because Hamas&#8217; credibility comes in large part from its absolutist positions,<sup>*<\/sup> a negotiation which results in Shalit&#8217;s release would be seen by many of their supporters as a capitulation and a defeat, and this would compromise their political viability, both in Gaza and in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The short form is that if Hamas did this, they would be signing their own death warrant.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">I was going to use the &#8220;takes no prisoners&#8221; metaphor, but given the situation here, it just doesn&#8217;t work.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not going to happen, because if Hamas cuts a deal to release Shalit, even if it gets a truce and (somewhat more) open borders, it cuts its own throat. Because Hamas&#8217; credibility comes in large part from its absolutist positions,* a negotiation which results in Shalit&#8217;s release would be seen by many of their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1159,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-israel","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192802"}],"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=192802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}