{"id":199941,"date":"2007-06-15T06:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/15\/things-that-make-you-say-whiskey-tango-foxtrot\/"},"modified":"2007-06-15T06:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T11:19:00","slug":"things-that-make-you-say-whiskey-tango-foxtrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/15\/things-that-make-you-say-whiskey-tango-foxtrot\/","title":{"rendered":"Things That Make You Say Whiskey Tango Foxtrot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Hamas shows that it understands governance in a way that Fatah cannot.<\/p>\n<p>Governance requires a near monopoly on violence, and Fatah just wants a near-monopoly on graft.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/israel\/Story\/0,,2104091,00.html\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Hamas calls for Johnston&#8217;s release | Israel and the Middle East<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Brook and agencies<br \/>Friday June 15, 2007<\/p>\n<p>The Islamist movement Hamas today demanded the release of kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston after seizing control of Gaza from rival Palestinian group Fatah.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas, which has fought violent battles against Fatah for control of Gaza in the past few days, said at a press conference today that those holding Johnston should release him immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not allow his continued detention. We warn against not releasing him,&#8221; a Hamas spokesman, Abu Obeid, demanded.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston, 45, was kidnapped in Gaza City more than three months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, nothing had been heard of him until two weeks ago, when a video of the BBC reporter was posted on the internet by a group claiming to be holding him, the Army of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>In the June 1 video, Johnston said his captors were treating him well and that he was in good health &#8211; although it is still not known when the clip was filmed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Hamas shows that it understands governance in a way that Fatah cannot. Governance requires a near monopoly on violence, and Fatah just wants a near-monopoly on graft. Hamas calls for Johnston&#8217;s release | Israel and the Middle East Stephen Brook and agenciesFriday June 15, 2007 The Islamist movement Hamas today demanded the release &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1009,986,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-middle-east","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199941"}],"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=199941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}