{"id":223,"date":"2004-05-26T06:49:15","date_gmt":"2004-05-26T10:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=223"},"modified":"2006-01-02T09:43:47","modified_gmt":"2006-01-02T14:43:47","slug":"were-they-planning-to-deliver-food-and-clothing-at-night-during-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/were-they-planning-to-deliver-food-and-clothing-at-night-during-the-olympics","title":{"rendered":"Were they planning to deliver food and clothing at night during the Olympics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, following the execution of Nicholas Berg, I noted that <em>even Hezbollah<\/em> condemned the action. VM reader &#8220;Andrew&#8221; evidently took umbrage at this remark. In the Comments section of my site, he provided a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/17060\" target=\"_blank\">an article<\/a> on Hezbollah in the <em>New York Review of Books<\/em> and wrote:<\/p>\n<p><em>A nice cure for those of us without a nuanced view of history, recent or otherwise. But when it comes to Islam, what&#8217;s easier than lumping them all into a nice little undiferentiated ball?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so much easier to call out your targets that way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I guess his point was that Hezbollah is a standard political party, and does plenty of good for its constituents.<\/p>\n<p>So it must hearten him that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A55987-2004May25.html\" target=\"_blank\">this guy<\/a> is trying to extend the reach of Hezbollah&#8217;s humanitarian activities.<\/p>\n<p>In Athens.<\/p>\n<p>By sending night-vision equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, following the execution of Nicholas Berg, I noted that even Hezbollah condemned the action. VM reader &#8220;Andrew&#8221; evidently took umbrage at this remark. In the Comments section of my site, he provided a link to an article on Hezbollah in the New York Review of Books and wrote: A nice cure &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/were-they-planning-to-deliver-food-and-clothing-at-night-during-the-olympics\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Were they planning to deliver food and clothing at night during the Olympics?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-3B","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1068,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/cest-levy","url_meta":{"origin":223,"position":0},"title":"C&#8217;est Levy","author":"Gil","date":"August 8, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Bernhard-Henri Levy wrote an excellent essay from and about Israel in the NYTimes last Sunday: Zivit Seri is a tiny woman, a mother, who speaks with clumsy, defenseless gestures as she guides me through the destroyed buildings of Bat Galim \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d literally \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cdaughter of the waves,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d the Haifa neighborhood that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics (explicit)&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics (explicit)","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/politics-explicit"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":236,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/you-know-youve-fucked-up","url_meta":{"origin":223,"position":1},"title":"You know you&#8217;ve fucked up. . .","author":"Gil","date":"May 12, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":". . . when Hezbollah sez you've gone too far.","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/you-know-youve-fucked-up#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":818,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/hello-hamas-goodbye-fatah-here-i-am-in-camp-grenadea","url_meta":{"origin":223,"position":2},"title":"Hello Hamas, Goodbye Fatah, Here I am in Camp Grenade(a)","author":"Gil","date":"January 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, the Palestinian populace had parliamentary elections, and the Hamas party won a ton of seats. 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