{"id":323,"date":"2008-05-21T12:32:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T17:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=323"},"modified":"2008-05-21T13:56:05","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T18:56:05","slug":"how-representative-of-the-palestinians-is-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"How Representative of the Palestinians is Hamas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The diplomatic line typically goes, &#8220;Our argument is not with the people of [insert country here], but with their government.&#8221;  In most cases, this is a true statement.  However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angus-reid.com\/polls\/view\/30726\/palestinians_reject_hamas_recognizing_israel\" target=\"_blank\">a recent poll<\/a> shows that in the Palestinian Territories, it may not apply.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(Angus Reid Global Monitor) &#8211; The majority of people in the Palestinian Territories are against the militant group Hamas recognizing the legitimacy of Israel as a state, according to a poll by Arab World for Research &amp; Development. 63 per cent of respondents living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip share this opinion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In explaining the results of the January, 2006 elections that put Hamas on top in the Palestinian Legislative Council, TV pundits I watched explained this as more of a rejection by the Palestinian people of Fatah&#8217;s corruption than of their having made common cause with Hamas&#8217; agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourish.com\/2008\/05\/20\/4839\" target=\"_blank\">Meryl Yourish<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>[tags]Israel,Middle East,Fatah,Hamas[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The diplomatic line typically goes, &#8220;Our argument is not with the people of [insert country here], but with their government.&#8221; In most cases, this is a true statement. However, a recent poll shows that in the Palestinian Territories, it may not apply. (Angus Reid Global Monitor) &#8211; The majority of people in the Palestinian Territories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,53,52,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-government","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-polls"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}