{"id":56241,"date":"2023-11-28T00:02:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T00:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56241"},"modified":"2023-11-28T00:02:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T00:02:49","slug":"hamas-wants-extension-to-what-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56241","title":{"rendered":"Hamas wants extension &#8230; to what end?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Did I hear it correctly, that the terrorist organization Hamas is willing to extend the four-day cease-fire in the war it started with Israel?<\/p>\n<p>Well, before we embrace this as a show of compassion for the hostages Hamas is releasing, I want to caution y&#8217;all about why Hamas might be willing to extend the cease-fire.<\/p>\n<p>It well might be only to reorganize its command and control network, which the Israeli Defense Forces have disrupted since mounting its counteroffensive after the Oct. 7 rocket fusillade that Hamas launched into Israeli cities.<\/p>\n<p>You see, Hamas is about as trustworthy as the nastiest murderers who ever have lived.<\/p>\n<p>I get that I and most of the world are way on the outside trying to peer into the inner workings of this shadowy group. I also know that Israeli intelligence officials &#8212; among the best in the world &#8212; likely know what Hamas is up to as it sues for an extension of the cease-fire.<\/p>\n<p>I am left only to hope that Mossad &#8212; the Israeli spy network &#8212; knows what gives with Hamas&#8217;s efforts to keep the Israelis&#8217; bombardment at bay. If it&#8217;s for real, that it only intends to release more hostages during the cease-fire, then I&#8217;m all in.<\/p>\n<p>I fear that Hamas very well might have more sinister motives in mind. If the Israelis discover that Hamas merely is buying time to reorganize and re-form its command and control apparatus, then they <em>must resume their<\/em> offensive <em>with full force.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did I hear it correctly, that the terrorist organization Hamas is willing to extend the four-day cease-fire in the war it started with Israel? Well, before we embrace this as a show of compassion for the hostages Hamas is releasing, I want to caution y&#8217;all about why Hamas might be willing to extend the cease-fire. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56241\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hamas wants extension &#8230; to what end?<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2049,2369,10297,4569],"class_list":["post-56241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-mossad","tag-terrorists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56242,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56241\/revisions\/56242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}