{"id":1273,"date":"2007-06-20T12:35:45","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T04:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2009-05-02T14:16:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T06:16:41","slug":"1268-of-fouad-ajami-on-the-fatah-hamas-conflict-and-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1273","title":{"rendered":"[1268] Of Fouad Ajami on the Fatah-Hamas conflict and Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It isn&#8217;t a pretty choice, that between Hamas and Fatah. Indeed, it was the reign of plunder and arrogance that Fatah imposed during its years of primacy that gave Hamas its power and room for maneuver. We must not overdo the distinction between the &#8220;secularism&#8221; of Fatah and the Islamism of Hamas. In the cruel streets and refugee camps of the Palestinians, this is really a distinction without a difference. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/19\/opinion\/19ajami.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=2\" target=\"_blank\">Brothers to the Bitter End<\/a><\/em>. Fouad Ajami. NYT. June 20 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn&#8217;t a pretty choice, that between Hamas and Fatah. Indeed, it was the reign of plunder and arrogance that Fatah imposed during its years of primacy that gave Hamas its power and room for maneuver. We must not overdo the distinction between the &#8220;secularism&#8221; of Fatah and the Islamism of Hamas. In the cruel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4],"tags":[648,649,93],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conflict-disaster","category-liberty","tag-fatah","tag-hamas","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3959,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/3959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}