{"id":64600,"date":"2013-08-31T23:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/syria-on-immoral-interventionism\/64600\/"},"modified":"2013-08-31T23:00:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T22:00:06","slug":"syria-on-immoral-interventionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/syria-on-immoral-interventionism\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria: On Immoral Interventionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we are marching towards an imminent American attack on Syria, a conflict that can easily escalate into a regional disaster, it is embarrassing to recall that just four months ago some of our \u2018leading\u2019 political scientists were clumsy enough to lend their names to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.europe-solidaire.org\/spip.php?article28370\">pro interventionist petition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On April 8<sup>th<\/sup> we found out that Tariq Ali, Norman Finkelstein and Ilan Pappe, amongst others, demanded \u201cthat Bashar al-Asad leave immediately without excuses so that Syria can begin a speedy recovery towards a democratic future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I learned today that Tariq Ali confessed to friends that he regretted signing this interventionist petition, bless him. \u00a0However, I wonder where Ilan Pappe and Norman Finkelstein stand on the issue? Is the looming American attack what they had in mind?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/syria-on-immoral-interventionism\/5347417?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=syria-on-immoral-interventionism\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmore\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Republished from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/syria-on-immoral-interventionism\/5347417?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=syria-on-immoral-interventionism\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Syria: On Immoral Interventionism\">Global Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we are marching towards an imminent American attack on Syria, a conflict that can easily escalate into a regional disaster, it is embarrassing to recall that just four months ago some of our \u2018leading\u2019 political scientists were clumsy enough to lend their names to a pro interventionist petition. On April 8th we found out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}