{"id":1303,"date":"2006-07-26T13:06:09","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T13:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2006-07-26T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T13:06:09","slug":"2006-7-26-a-war-on-shias-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1303","title":{"rendered":"A war on Shias?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">From Jim Quilty&#8217;s MERIP piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merip.org\/mero\/mero072506.html\">Israel&#8217;s war against Lebanon&#8217;s Shias<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Israel has blithely played upon Lebanon&#8217;s sectarian divisions with the patterns of bombing and with leaflets asserting that Nasrallah is beholden to foreign masters. Though the Shi&#8216;a of Lebanon are not pre-programmed to be Hizballah supporters, and many are not, the unremitting strikes against south Lebanon, the Bekaa and Beirut&#8217;s southern suburbs punish the Shi&#8216;i population for being the constituency that Hizballah primarily serves. They also replicate international sanctions against Palestinians for having the temerity to vote for Hamas in the January 2006 Palestinian elections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Below Leaflets dropped by Israel on Lebanon, showing Nasrallah as a snake conjured by Syria and Iran (from the MERIP piece.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/FliersfromIsrael2small.jpg\" height=\"190\" width=\"350\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Fliersfromisrael2Small\" \/><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/FliersfromIsrael1small.jpg\" height=\"272\" width=\"375\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Fliersfromisrael1Small\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">From Jim Quilty&#8217;s MERIP piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merip.org\/mero\/mero072506.html\">Israel&#8217;s war against Lebanon&#8217;s Shias<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Israel has blithely played upon Lebanon&#8217;s sectarian divisions with the patterns of bombing and with leaflets asserting that Nasrallah is beholden to foreign masters. Though the Shi&#8216;a of Lebanon are not pre-programmed to be Hizballah supporters, and many are not, the unremitting strikes against south Lebanon, the Bekaa and Beirut&#8217;s southern suburbs punish the Shi&#8216;i population for being the constituency that Hizballah primarily serves. They also replicate international sanctions against Palestinians for having the temerity to vote for Hamas in the January 2006 Palestinian elections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Below Leaflets dropped by Israel on Lebanon, showing Nasrallah as a snake conjured by Syria and Iran (from the MERIP piece.)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/FliersfromIsrael2small.jpg\" height=\"190\" width=\"350\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Fliersfromisrael2Small\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/FliersfromIsrael1small.jpg\" height=\"272\" width=\"375\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Fliersfromisrael1Small\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[59,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}