{"id":193227,"date":"2009-01-07T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/07\/gaza-update-5\/"},"modified":"2009-01-07T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T00:00:00","slug":"gaza-update-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/07\/gaza-update-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there was a 3 hour truce to deliver supplies, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aFGZ_BmuqZpY&amp;refer=home\">and then the fighting started up again<\/a>, and the Israeli cabinet has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?pagename=JPost\/JPArticle\/ShowFull&amp;cid=1231167289976\"><span>OK&#8217;d<\/span> continued conflict<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On a brighter note, things seem to be <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123132281275160533.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us\">developing diplomatically<\/a>, with a lot of people on both sides in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, if you think that the Middle East can make you cynical, you haven&#8217;t ever truly experienced real cynicism.  Just check out <a href=\"http:\/\/exiledonline.com\/the-war-nerd-hamas-aint-no-hezbollah\/\">the War <span>Nerd&#8217;s<\/span> latest<\/a>, it&#8217;s on Gaza, and it makes everyone else that I&#8217;ve ever heard of sound like Little Orphan Annie.<\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase Paul Hogan in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Crocodile Dundee<\/span>, that&#8217;s isn&#8217;t cynicism, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">this<\/span> is cynicism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there was a 3 hour truce to deliver supplies, and then the fighting started up again, and the Israeli cabinet has OK&#8217;d continued conflict. On a brighter note, things seem to be developing diplomatically, with a lot of people on both sides in Cairo. Finally, if you think that the Middle East can make &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1002,1159,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-good-writing","category-israel","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193227"}],"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=193227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}