{"id":1305,"date":"2004-09-14T01:44:28","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T08:44:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-09-14T01:44:28","modified_gmt":"2004-09-14T08:44:28","slug":"how-the-israelis-set-their-own-hair-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/14\/how-the-israelis-set-their-own-hair-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Israelis set their own hair on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence of Cyberia writes an interesting argument about the genesis of HAMAS, why Al Qaeda has never been involved in the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation and why Israel&#8217;s tactics might bring Al Qaeda into Palestine in the future.  He introduces this excellent post with this intriguing quotation that you may not have seen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Israelis are their own worst enemies when it comes to fighting terrorism. The Israelis are like a guy who sets fire to his hair and then tries to put it out by hitting it with a hammer. They do more to incite and sustain terrorism than curb it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Larry Johnson, Deputy Director of the U.S. State Department\u2019s Office of Counter Terrorism, 1989 &#8211; 1993.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com\/news\/2004\/09\/careful_what_yo_1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Careful What You Wish For<\/em><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence of Cyberia writes an interesting argument about the genesis of HAMAS, why Al Qaeda has never been involved in the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation and why Israel&#8217;s tactics might bring Al Qaeda into Palestine in the future. He introduces this excellent post with this intriguing quotation that you may not have seen: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}