{"id":229,"date":"2006-02-01T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2006-02-01T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T15:50:00","slug":"the-hamas-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/01\/the-hamas-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hamas Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of people have asked me for my take on the Hamas&#8217; victory in the Palestinian elections last week.  I&#8217;m far from an expert in this area and I don&#8217;t have the time I need to formulate my thoughts for a public forum.  But I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielpipes.org\/article\/3347\">Daniel Pipes&#8217; editorial<\/a> yesterday and agree with it in the main.  This paragraph in particular is probably the reality that most in the West don&#8217;t realize.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not much separates Hamas anti-Zionism from Fatah anti-Zionism except that Hamas  terrorists speak forthrightly while Fatah terrorists obfuscate. Even their  tactics overlap, as Fatah denies the existence of Israel and Hamas negotiates  with Israelis. Differing emphases and styles, more than substance, distinguishes  their attitudes toward Israel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, in case you don&#8217;t read the whole (short) article, here&#8217;s another quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Palestinian election outcome resulted partly from more than a decade of  misrule by Yasser Arafat and his cronies, who stole, plotted, embezzled, and ran  roughshod over their subjects. Hamas, in contrast, built a record of community  service, relative probity, and modesty. Looked at positively, the success of  Hamas implies that Palestinian Arabs do take other matters into consideration  besides eliminating Israel. Looked at negatively, they merely prefer honest  terrorists to dishonest ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of people have asked me for my take on the Hamas&#8217; victory in the Palestinian elections last week. I&#8217;m far from an expert in this area and I don&#8217;t have the time I need to formulate my thoughts for a public forum. But I read Daniel Pipes&#8217; editorial yesterday and agree with it\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/01\/the-hamas-victory\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}