{"id":3922,"date":"2014-08-02T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-03-21T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T11:43:32","slug":"epalestine-lrb-hamass-chances-by-nathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2014\/08\/epalestine-lrb-hamass-chances-by-nathan\/","title":{"rendered":"LRB: Hamas\u2019s Chances (by Nathan Thrall) &#8211; A MUST READ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"\">A really solid and comprehensive analysis by my good friend, Nathan Thrall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\"><strong>London Review of Books<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v36\/n16\/contents\">Vol. 36 No 16 \u00b7 21 August 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p>pages 10-12 | 3611 words<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"LRB Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.lrb.co.uk\/assets\/covers\/m\/cov3616.jpg\" height=\"180\" width=\"133\" \/> <\/p>\n<h1>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Hamas&#8217;s Chances<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Nathan Thrall<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v36\/n16\/nathan-thrall\/hamass-chances\">http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v36\/n16\/nathan-thrall\/hamass-chances<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nathan Thrall<\/strong> is a senior analyst with the Middle East and North Africa Programme of the International Crisis Group.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note from Sam:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the record, there are two items he missed:<\/p>\n<p>1. In the context, the pre &#8220;war&#8221; Palestinian prisoners hunger strike and cold blooded killing of 2 Palestinians by the IDF in Betunia, which may have led to the yet unconfirmed Palestinian role in the 3 settler youths disappearance\/murder.<\/p>\n<p>2. Re &#8220;&#8230;well before Israel\u2019s 2005 withdrawal.&#8221; Even Israel did not call it &#8220;withdrawal&#8221; at the time, it was called what it was, a &#8220;unilateral disengagement,&#8221; or redeployment, to make the point that Israel remains, to this day, in full effective control of Gaza, a.k.a. military occupation.<\/p>\n<p>Besides these two points, he really did a great job in capturing the context.<\/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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A really solid and comprehensive analysis by my good friend, Nathan Thrall. London Review of Books Vol. 36 No 16 \u00b7 21 August 2014 pages 10-12 | 3611 words Hamas&#8217;s Chances Nathan Thrall http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v36\/n16\/nathan-thrall\/hamass-chances Nathan Thrall is a senior analyst with the Middle East and North Africa Programme of the International Crisis Group. Note from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":2,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[617,618,48,1401,439,40,158],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gazaunderattack","tag-palestineunderattack","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-israeli-defense-forces","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-occupied-territories"],"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\/3922","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5730,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions\/5730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}