{"id":2199,"date":"2003-02-18T01:31:16","date_gmt":"2003-02-18T08:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/02\/clarity-in-arab-protests\/"},"modified":"2003-02-18T01:31:16","modified_gmt":"2003-02-18T08:31:16","slug":"clarity-in-arab-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/18\/clarity-in-arab-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarity in Arab protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tArabs participating in <a title=\"Millions Stage Anti-War Protests Worldwide\" href=\"http:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/030215\/5\/ruei.html\">the Saturday protests<\/a> showed a unique awareness of the issues:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>About 10,000 people waving Iraqi, French and German flags and Saddam Hussein pictures marched peacefully but noisily through the Lebanese capital of Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In Amman, about 5,000 Jordanian demonstrators chanted &#8220;Death to the Americans and Victory to Iraq.&#8221; Some demonstrators carried posters of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urging him to launch missile attacks on Israel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d like some pictures, but so far all I can round up is a man with a kid dressed like Saddam on his shoulders. The Arabs who came out to support the Baathist regime were at least honest about what they were doing.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arabs participating in the Saturday protests showed a unique awareness of the issues: About 10,000 people waving Iraqi, French and German flags and Saddam Hussein pictures marched peacefully but noisily through the Lebanese capital of Beirut. &#8230; In Amman, about 5,000 Jordanian demonstrators chanted &#8220;Death to the Americans and Victory to Iraq.&#8221; Some demonstrators carried &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/18\/clarity-in-arab-protests\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clarity in Arab protests&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-zt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}