{"id":1340,"date":"2009-02-02T09:41:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T13:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2009-02-02T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T13:42:24","slug":"why-israel-is-losing-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/02\/02\/why-israel-is-losing-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Israel Is &#8220;Losing&#8221; In Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Article on Huffington Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/01\/30\/why-israel-is-losing-in-g_n_162610.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to an article on Huffington Post that claims that in the long-run the Israeli military tactics are not helpful for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>You may disagree with Hamas&#8217;s claim to success in the latest conflict.\u00a0 Your logic may tell you that Israel &#8220;won&#8221;.\u00a0 However, the above article explains in what sense Hamas &#8220;won&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not you think Hamas is manipulating words to describe their &#8220;win&#8221; or you think that Israel really &#8220;won&#8221;, it is the eventual result of this conflict that will be decide who was &#8220;right&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the possibility that this author has correctly assessed the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Justifying Israel&#8217;s actions because you cannot imagine a strategy that would work better, doesn&#8217;t really get us anywhere.\u00a0 Lack of imagination is no guarantee of success.\u00a0 If they cannot think of a better strategy, then they need to redouble their efforts to imagine one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to an article on Huffington Post that claims that in the long-run the Israeli military tactics are not helpful for Israel. You may disagree with Hamas&#8217;s claim to success in the latest conflict.\u00a0 Your logic may tell you that Israel &#8220;won&#8221;.\u00a0 However, the above article explains in what sense Hamas &#8220;won&#8221;. Whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}