{"id":383,"date":"2007-07-01T12:52:10","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=383"},"modified":"2007-12-08T23:43:43","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T06:31:43","slug":"corrupt-and-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Corrupt and Insane&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/profiles\/profiles\/yisroel_pensack.htm\">Yisroel Pensack writes in to JewishSF.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Israel is transferring hundreds of millions of dollars to support Mahmoud Abbas&#8217;  Fatah &quot;government&quot; after Hamas seized control of Gaza as Israel&#8217;s reward for its  withdrawal there. <\/p>\n<p>The June 24 New York Times quotes a Fatah legislator  as saying Abbas &quot;has no clear plan&quot; for creating order within Fatah or for  confronting Hamas. &quot;We&#8217;ll only be able to command the respect of the people if  we succeed in getting rid of the armed thugs,&quot; said the legislator, a former Al  Aksa Martyrs Brigades chief. <\/p>\n<p>Times reporter Isabel Kershner observes,  &quot;There seems little immediate chance of a Hamas rout in the West Bank like there  was in Gaza, but that is at least partly because, unlike Gaza, the West Bank  remains under Israeli military occupation. Most of the prominent Hamas  legislators and politicians from the West Bank are in Israeli jails, and the  rest are lying low.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>The Israeli government is criminally corrupt and  dangerously insane for aiding the Palestinian regime. Israel will reap the  whirlwind from Gaza and the &quot;West Bank,&quot; as well as from Lebanon, for 40 years  of failure to expand its borders to fulfill its only valid territorial mandate,  which comes directly from God in his Torah.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yisroel Pensack writes in to JewishSF.com: Israel is transferring hundreds of millions of dollars to support Mahmoud Abbas&#8217; Fatah &quot;government&quot; after Hamas seized control of Gaza as Israel&#8217;s reward for its withdrawal there. The June 24 New York Times quotes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=383\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}