{"id":5173,"date":"2009-01-19T08:06:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T16:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2009-01-19T08:22:39","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T16:22:39","slug":"slaughter-a-product-of-circumstance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/19\/slaughter-a-product-of-circumstance\/","title":{"rendered":"Slaughter &#8220;A Product of Circumstance&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/em>Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/usTopNews\/idUKTRE50I2LU20090119?sp=true\"><strong>announced today<\/strong><\/a> that the Palestinian civilians killed by the IDF in Gaza were &#8220;a product of circumstance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Livni recognizes that the carnage may present a public relations problem for the Israeli government: &#8220;These matters will present us with a complicated task &#8230; The consequences, in the context of civilians casualties, are something we have to deal with, among ourselves and in facing the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Livni need worry little about either the U.S. Congress or the bulk of the American media.  Her &#8220;product of circumstance&#8221; explanation will be taken as sufficient absolution regardless of how many hundreds of corpses of dead women and children are uncovered in Gaza in the coming days and weeks.  <\/p>\n<p>And whatever Rules of Engagement the IDF used will be irrelevant. It wouldn&#8217;t be fair to blame the Israeli military for &#8220;circumstances,&#8221; after all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni announced today that the Palestinian civilians killed by the IDF in Gaza were &#8220;a product of circumstance.&#8221; Livni recognizes that the carnage may present a public relations problem for the Israeli government: &#8220;These matters will present us with a complicated task &#8230; The consequences, in the context of civilians casualties, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"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\/5173","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5176,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions\/5176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}