{"id":680,"date":"2004-04-03T00:11:50","date_gmt":"2004-04-03T07:11:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-04-03T00:11:50","modified_gmt":"2004-04-03T07:11:50","slug":"sharons-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/03\/sharons-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon&#8217;s Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, let&#8217;s see.  Sharon has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeerah.info\/News%20archives\/2004%20News%20archives\/March\/31%20n\/IOF%20Tears%20down%20Two%20Houses%20in%20Rafah,%20Invades%20Tobass.htm\" target=\"_blank\">bulldozed some more houses in Rafah<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/mason\/stories\/WO0403\/S00403.htm\" target=\"_blank\">shot some stone throwing little boys<\/a>, assaulted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albawaba.com\/news\/index.php3?sid=273994&#038;lang=e&#038;dir=news\" target=\"_blank\">Al Aqsa mosque with riot police<\/a>, who even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geo.tv\/main_files\/world.aspx?id=12322\" target=\"_blank\">shot sound bombs into the mosque<\/a>, had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/locales\/newsArticle.jsp?type=worldNews&#038;locale=en_IN&#038;storyID=4727397\" target=\"_blank\">shootout at a Palestinian mental hospital<\/a>,  and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/locales\/newsArticle.jsp;:406dca49:6f76d8947d1229a4?type=worldNews&#038;locale=en_IN&#038;storyID=4732939\" target=\"_blank\">threatened to kill Arafat again.<\/a>  Still, no suicide bombers.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A12206-2002Apr18?language=printer\" target=\"_blank\">Man of Peace<sup><small>tm<\/small><\/sup> <\/a>to do?  Maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2004\/03\/26\/1079939849852.html\" target=\"_blank\">another assassination?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How much longer can he stall on his proposed Gaza withdrawal without a retaliation?  He was driven today to announce a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/513142.html\" target=\"_blank\">cessation of new construction of settler pads<\/a> in Gaza as a &#8220;step toward withdrawal!&#8221;  What does he have to do?  Actually stop building?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a dilemma, for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, let&#8217;s see. Sharon has bulldozed some more houses in Rafah, shot some stone throwing little boys, assaulted the Al Aqsa mosque with riot police, who even shot sound bombs into the mosque, had a shootout at a Palestinian mental hospital, and threatened to kill Arafat again. Still, no suicide bombers. What&#8217;s a Man of [&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-680","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\/680","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=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}