{"id":2622,"date":"2006-01-30T08:14:43","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T15:14:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-01-30T08:14:43","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T15:14:43","slug":"the-world-wants-to-be-cheated-and-israel-is-happy-to-assist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/30\/the-world-wants-to-be-cheated-and-israel-is-happy-to-assist\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Wants to be Cheated (and Israel is happy to assist)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone had any doubts about the army vs. settlers \u201cclashes\u201d in Hebron being nothing but a sham (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/hacohen\/?articleid=8404\">see my latest column<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/676238.html\">today\u2019s <i>Ha&#8217;aretz<\/i> reports of the so predictable outcome<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>The state and Hebron&#8217;s settlers reached an agreement early Monday morning under which Jewish squatters would voluntarily leave the city&#8217;s wholesale market by Monday night, Israel Radio reported. In exchange, they are to secure the state&#8217;s promise to speed up legal proceedings that would enable them to return to the market legally.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And what about the Palestinian merchants, who had used the market until they were driven out as a \u201csecurity measure\u201d (guess whose security) in 1994, after a Jewish terrorist murdered 29 Arab worshippers? \u2013Forget about them; this game is excelusively for Israelis (and for the media).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone had any doubts about the army vs. settlers \u201cclashes\u201d in Hebron being nothing but a sham (see my latest column), today\u2019s Ha&#8217;aretz reports of the so predictable outcome: The state and Hebron&#8217;s settlers reached an agreement early Monday morning under which Jewish squatters would voluntarily leave the city&#8217;s wholesale market by Monday night, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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-2622","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\/2622","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}