{"id":151,"date":"2006-04-24T05:49:39","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T13:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=151"},"modified":"2006-04-24T05:52:54","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T13:52:54","slug":"abbas-in-the-crosshairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/abbas-in-the-crosshairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbas in the Crosshairs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>\n<dt>How long can Abbas last? That&#8217;s the question that came to my mind when I read <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060424\/ts_nm\/mideast_abbas_dc_2\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><dd>Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday that he would not fire the new Hamas-led government at this time despite the Islamist group&#8217;s refusal to renounce violence and embrace peacemaking with Israel.<\/p>\n<p><dd>Abbas, leader of the more moderate faction Fatah, last week vetoed Hamas&#8217;s nomination of a Gaza Strip militant to a senior security post, prompting violent street confrontations and warnings of a looming Palestinian civil war.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>Unless Abbas was grandstanding and playing to the international audience (with Hamas knowledge and consent), I think they&#8217;re going to taken him down. Violently.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/us.news3.yimg.com\/us.i2.yimg.com\/p\/nm\/20060424\/2006_04_24t015649_364x450_us_mideast_violence.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long can Abbas last? That&#8217;s the question that came to my mind when I read this: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday that he would not fire the new Hamas-led government at this time despite the Islamist group&#8217;s refusal to renounce violence and embrace peacemaking with Israel. Abbas, leader of the more moderate &#8230; <a title=\"Abbas in the Crosshairs?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/abbas-in-the-crosshairs\/\" aria-label=\"More on Abbas in the Crosshairs?\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-2r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}