{"id":54526,"date":"2014-08-13T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54526"},"modified":"2014-08-12T19:18:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T23:18:05","slug":"gazans-begin-to-question-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54526","title":{"rendered":"Gazans begin to question Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/as-war-with-israel-shatters-lives-more-gazans-question-hamas-decisions\/2014\/08\/12\/71e3381e-e0a1-4243-ad49-09aef0656d2c_story.html\">The Washington Post<\/a> reports that Gazans are finally coming to realize that maybe Hamas isn&#8217;t all that good for them;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen they fire from here, Israel repays us with an F-16 airstrike,\u201d said Rafaat Shamiya, 40, adding that he largely blames Israel. \u201cWe are tired. We don\u2019t have the power to fight the Israeli. While he is sitting in his office in Israel, he can destroy all of Gaza by remote control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Some residents said they don\u2019t expect Hamas and other Palestinian militant factions to help rebuild Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey just fight Israel, and then they leave everything,\u201d said Mahmoud, 20, who asked that his last name not be used. \u201cThe people will pay the price.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s all well and good that they&#8217;ve finally recognized the unfortunate position in which they find themselves, but will they do anything about it now?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Still, no Gazans interviewed&#8230;suggested that Hamas\u2019s decision to wage war against Israel was misguided. Israel, they said, has given Palestinians no other alternative route to improve their lives and live with dignity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, no, probably not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports that Gazans are finally coming to realize that maybe Hamas isn&#8217;t all &hellip; <a title=\"Gazans begin to question Hamas\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54526\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gazans begin to question Hamas<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}