{"id":3791,"date":"2016-01-29T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-05-30T14:11:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:11:43","slug":"epalestine-mee-layers-of-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2016\/01\/epalestine-mee-layers-of-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"MEE: Layers of confusion choke internal Palestinian affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Middle East Eye<\/p>\n<p>Friday, 29 January 2016<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Layers of confusion choke internal Palestinian affairs<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"  href=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Abbas__AFP-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3792\" src=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Abbas__AFP-1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u00a0<\/span>Sam Bahour<\/p>\n<p>The starting point to understand today&#8217;s reality in Palestine is as crystal clear now as it always has been. Over 4 million Palestinians are approaching their 50th year of living under Israeli military occupation; it should be noted that these Palestinians comprise less than half of all Palestinians worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli occupation seeps into every aspect of life, including our internal affairs. This is not an excuse for our state of affairs, but rather a fact that has always been there and must be understood and taken into consideration as we plan our actions. It is these desired &#8220;actions,&#8221; or lack thereof, where lack of clarity enters.<\/p>\n<p>First, there is President Mahmoud Abbas. Positioned more as a king governing by presidential decree, than president of an operating political system, President Abbas is at a loss as to how to address the multiple fronts imposed upon him.<\/p>\n<p>READ ON AT: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/layers-of-confusion\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/layers-of-confusion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sam Bahour<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sambahour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> * <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Sam-Bahour-234276170236937\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> * <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamBahour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.ePalestine.ps<\/a><\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Everything about this list:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/p>\n<p>To subscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p>\n<p>To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle East Eye Friday, 29 January 2016 Layers of confusion choke internal Palestinian affairs \u00a0Sam Bahour The starting point to understand today&#8217;s reality in Palestine is as crystal clear now as it always has been. Over 4 million Palestinians are approaching their 50th year of living under Israeli military occupation; it should be noted that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[92,156,40,12,158,252,165],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-elections","tag-fatah","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-mahmoud-abbas","tag-occupied-territories","tag-palestine-liberation-organization","tag-palestinian-authority"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9218,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions\/9218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}