{"id":2623,"date":"2006-01-31T00:22:30","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T07:22:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-01-31T00:22:30","modified_gmt":"2006-01-31T07:22:30","slug":"the-triumph-of-hamas-you-read-it-here-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/31\/the-triumph-of-hamas-you-read-it-here-first\/","title":{"rendered":"The Triumph of Hamas: You Read It Here First"},"content":{"rendered":"

Condi Rice<\/a> is baffled by the victory of Hamas in the recent Palestinian elections:<\/p>\n

“I’ve asked why nobody saw [Hamas’ election victory] coming. It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse… I don’t know anyone who wasn’t caught off guard by Hamas’ strong showing.”<\/i><\/p>\n

Is it really true that the Secretary of State of the world’s most powerful country didn’t have a clue, when a lowly scribbler at the Antiwar.com website saw it coming last summer?:<\/p>\n

“What do you do, however, when ‘terrorists’ start winning elections? This is a question American policymakers must confront now that Hezbollah has swept the polls in southern Lebanon. Hamas threatens to overtake the Palestinian establishment at the ballot box; Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has had to postpone the Palestinian elections because of this very real possibility.”<\/i>
\n— Justin Raimondo, “The Democratic Delusion<\/a>,” Antiwar.com, June 10, 2005<\/p>\n

Gee, I’d be glad to do free-lance work for the State Department — heck, I can always use extra cash — but, so far, nobody’s called …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Condi Rice is baffled by the victory of Hamas in the recent Palestinian elections: “I’ve asked why nobody saw [Hamas’ election victory] coming. It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse… I don’t know anyone who wasn’t caught off guard by Hamas’ strong showing.” Is it really true that the Secretary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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-2623","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\/2623","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}