{"id":765,"date":"2004-03-22T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-22T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=765"},"modified":"2018-08-10T08:52:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T13:52:46","slug":"765","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/22\/765\/","title":{"rendered":"Equivalence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, equivalence makes two things equal.  <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=540&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/ap\/20040322\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/gaza_explosions\" target=\"new\">This story<\/a> about the death of the Hamas leader does not actually equivocate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sharon&#8217;s government has gone after militant leaders using Israeli helicopter gunships in a controversial policy that has resulted in a number of civilian casualties in addition to the deaths of senior figures in Hamas and other groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s controversial because of accidental <i>civilian<\/i> casualties.  Attacks that target innocent bus riders or train riders or just people eating in a cafe or dancing in a nightclub&#8211;that&#8217;s an accepted, noncontroversial expression from an aggrieved people.  They&#8217;re acceptable, but the Israeli policy is not.  Thanks for dishing up the unwritten commentary with the facts, AP.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Yassin was viewed as an inspirational figure by his followers in the Gaza Strip (news &#8211; web sites) and West Bank. His death could spur violent protests not only in the Palestinian areas but in the wider Arab and Islamic world, where he was well-regarded as a symbol of the Palestinian battle for independence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His death could spur violence.  Why should it differ from his life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, equivalence makes two things equal. This story about the death of the Hamas leader does not actually equivocate: Sharon&#8217;s government has gone after militant leaders using Israeli helicopter gunships in a controversial policy that has resulted in a number of civilian casualties in addition to the deaths of senior figures in Hamas and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22645,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/22645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}