{"id":1669,"date":"2005-02-17T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandbox.blog-city.com\/hizbullah_back_in_the_news.htm"},"modified":"2005-02-17T07:57:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T12:57:00","slug":"hizbullah-back-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/2005\/02\/hizbullah-back-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Hizbullah back in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em> runs a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/02\/17\/international\/middleeast\/17diplo.html\" target=\"_blank\">piece<\/a> on U.S. efforts to have Europe list Hizbullah as a terrorist organization. According to the article,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Europeans are not solidly opposed to listing Hezbollah as a terrorist group, the [unnamed U.S. and European] officials said. The Netherlands, Italy and Poland support the Bush administration&#8217;s view, several officials said, while Germany and Britain believe the issue is moot unless the French change their minds. One European diplomat said other countries were &#8220;hiding behind&#8221; France on the issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, of course. This is a time to remind readers that this website is loaded with my past writings on Hizbullah. For a general account, see my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/martinkramerorg\/Hizbullah.htm\" target=\"_blank\">entry<\/a> on the movement from the <em>Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World<\/em>. Another good introduction is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/martinkramerorg\/Calculus.htm\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> entitled &#8220;Hizbullah: The Calculus of Jihad.&#8221; If you click <a href=\"http:\/\/search.atomz.com\/search\/?sp-q=Hizbullah&amp;sp-a=sp1002a95f&amp;sp-p=all&amp;sp-f=ISO-8859-1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, you&#8217;ll turn up search results for the entire site. I wrote most of these pieces in the 1990s, but they stand up pretty well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times runs a piece on U.S. efforts to have Europe list Hizbullah as a terrorist organization. According to the article, The Europeans are not solidly opposed to listing Hezbollah as a terrorist group, the [unnamed U.S. and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/2005\/02\/hizbullah-back-in-the-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}