{"id":5798,"date":"2009-06-21T09:42:58","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T17:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=5798"},"modified":"2009-06-21T09:42:58","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T17:42:58","slug":"there-are-some-lines-you-just-dont-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/21\/there-are-some-lines-you-just-dont-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are Some Lines You Just Don&#8217;t Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/24\/jumblattapalooza\/\">Walid Jumblatt<\/a>, the leader of Lebanon&#8217;s Progressive Socialist Party who made a big splash four years ago when he began raving about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/25\/the-hits-keep-coming\/\">the wonders of the Bush Doctrine<\/a>? Probably not, to the relief of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/24\/dont-neocons-read-memri\/\">many a neocon<\/a>. He was an embarrassing ally for the warbots even back then, but now he&#8217;s gone and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/article.asp?edition_id=1&#038;categ_id=2&#038;article_id=103279\">done the unforgivable<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA surprise reconciliation between the leaders of Hizbullah and the Progressive Socialist Party was followed on Friday by Walid Jumblatt&#8217;s re-directing his rhetoric south, to Palestine, and <strong>warning of the &#8220;absolute extremism&#8221; of the Israeli government. &#8220;I call on all of our people in Palestine to reject sectarian and non-sectarian violence and cling to their Arabism and Palestinian national project, to confront Zionist projects that promise to be more dangerous and fiercer in the coming phase,&#8221; Jumblatt said in a statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The PSP leader said the Israeli government had no interest in a peace settlement and &#8220;insisted on absolute extremism&#8221; in its current policies. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suspect we won&#8217;t be seeing any more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/news\/show\/34152.html\">sympathetic profiles<\/a> of this &#8220;insightful interpreter of the fluctuations in Middle Eastern politics&#8221; any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon&#8217;s Progressive Socialist Party who made a big splash four years ago when he began raving about the wonders of the Bush Doctrine? Probably not, to the relief of many a neocon. He was an embarrassing ally for the warbots even back then, but now he&#8217;s gone and done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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":[21,24,43,47,44,10],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-lebanon","category-liberventionism","category-neocons","category-syria","category-war-party"],"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\/5798","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5800,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions\/5800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5798"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}