{"id":91,"date":"2006-01-26T06:15:58","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T14:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=91"},"modified":"2006-01-26T06:24:55","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T14:24:55","slug":"peace-no-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/peace-no-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace? No Peace!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prospects for international peace continue to dim. Hopelessness and fear and instability and conflict all will continue to increase.<\/p>\n<p>I know that sounds like pessimism. It is. It&#8217;s also bleak realism.<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>In Palestine, the Arabs <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060126\/ts_nm\/mideast_dc\">vote for terror<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><dd>The Islamic militant Hamas group swept to victory over the long-dominant Fatah party on Thursday in Palestinian parliamentary polls, a political earthquake that could bury any hope for reviving peace talks with Israel soon.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<p><dt>Over in Iran, meanwhile, efforts to buy time continue as the mullahs <i>apparently<\/i> continue their drive to hoodwink the Israelis and the West. And China and Russia <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20060126\/wl_afp\/irannuclearpoliticschinarussia_060126083717\">continue their geopolitical game<\/a> against the West and the Israelis:<\/p>\n<p><dd>China expressed support for a plan to have Iran&#8217;s uranium enriched in Russia as a way to end the global impasse over the Islamic republic&#8217;s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p><dd>Top Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, who arrived in Beijing Thursday for a one-day visit, expressed qualified support on Wednesday for the plan to enrich his nation&#8217;s uranium on Russian territory.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p><i>&#8220;It&#8217;s all a charade,&#8221; he mutters. &#8220;Things are getting darker for Israel <u>and<\/u> the US. Mark my words.&#8221;<\/i><\/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>Prospects for international peace continue to dim. Hopelessness and fear and instability and conflict all will continue to increase. I know that sounds like pessimism. It is. It&#8217;s also bleak realism. In Palestine, the Arabs vote for terror: The Islamic militant Hamas group swept to victory over the long-dominant Fatah party on Thursday in Palestinian &#8230; <a title=\"Peace? No Peace!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/peace-no-peace\/\" aria-label=\"More on Peace? No Peace!\">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-91","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-1t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","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=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}