{"id":11550,"date":"2010-06-04T16:08:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T16:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/04\/israel-and-the-blockade\/"},"modified":"2010-06-04T16:08:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T16:08:59","slug":"israel-and-the-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/04\/israel-and-the-blockade\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel and the Blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">From Charles Krauthammer, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/opinion\/2012025784_krauthammer04.html\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Israel Refuses to Commit Suicide<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">. . . the blockade is not just perfectly rational, it is perfectly legal. Gaza under Hamas is a self-declared enemy of Israel \u2014 a declaration backed up by more than 4,000 rockets fired at Israeli civilian territory. Yet having pledged itself to unceasing belligerency, Hamas claims victimhood when Israel imposes a blockade to prevent Hamas from arming itself with still more rockets.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">[. . .]<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The world is tired of these troublesome Jews, six million \u2014 that number again \u2014 hard by the Mediterranean, refusing every invitation to national suicide. For which they are relentlessly demonized, ghettoized and constrained from defending themselves, even as the more committed anti-Zionists \u2014 Iranian in particular \u2014 openly prepare a more final solution.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Charles Krauthammer, Israel Refuses to Commit Suicide: . . . the blockade is not just perfectly rational, it is perfectly legal. Gaza under Hamas is a self-declared enemy of Israel \u2014 a declaration backed up by more than 4,000 rockets fired at Israeli civilian territory. Yet having pledged itself to unceasing belligerency, Hamas claims &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/04\/israel-and-the-blockade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Israel and the Blockade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}