{"id":193239,"date":"2009-01-06T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/06\/gaza-update-6\/"},"modified":"2009-01-06T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T02:44:00","slug":"gaza-update-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/06\/gaza-update-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what may be the most significant move of the war, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/2009\/01\/israelis-take-o.html\">Israelhas seized the Hamas TV station<\/a>, Al-Aqsa.<\/p>\n<p>Really I&#8217;m serious.  I believe that one of the strategic goals of this war for the Israelis is seizing Hamas&#8217;s media tools, which play a significant part of their political apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not making joke about how this war is really a hit called by Disney Corporation, because Al-Aqsa broadcast &#8220;Farfour,&#8221; an anti-semitic Mickey Mouse look-a-like.<\/p>\n<p>There is more to this action than that, though I would still day, whatever you do, don&#8217;t f$#@ with the mouse.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting thing here is just how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Ab38a3f4c-233d-46f2-b962-9ace833fb888\">terrified surrounding Arab governments are of Hamas<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding Hamas&#8217;s Sunni theology, their close ties to Iran have Egypt, Jordan, and the House of Saud in particular concerned about some sort of revolutionary Shia tidal wave hitting them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what may be the most significant move of the war, Israelhas seized the Hamas TV station, Al-Aqsa. Really I&#8217;m serious. I believe that one of the strategic goals of this war for the Israelis is seizing Hamas&#8217;s media tools, which play a significant part of their political apparatus. I&#8217;m not making joke about how &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1159,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193239"}],"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=193239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}