{"id":5110,"date":"2023-10-25T12:22:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T17:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5110"},"modified":"2023-10-27T08:38:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T13:38:07","slug":"5110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/10\/25\/5110\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ayatollah will not like reading this story (and it seems that it could be buried among other Oct. 25 stories); the good news is also that despite authoritarianism around the world (not just in the Middle East) and radical Islam, there is still the desire for freedom.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/saudi-crown-prince-indicates-israel-normalization-can-resume-after-war-white-house\">\u201cSaudi crown prince indicates Israel normalization can resume after war \u2013 White House,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 10-25-23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/world\/israel-iran-ordered-recent-attacks-by-allies-in-yemen-iraq-lebanon-2741079\">\u201cIran ordered recent attacks by allies in Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, says Israel,\u201d<\/a> Deccan Herald, 10-25-23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/hamas-fighters-trained-in-iran-before-oct-7-attacks-e2a8dbb9\">\u201cHamas Fighters Trained in Iran Before Oct. 7 Attacks,\u201d<\/a> Wall Street Journal, 10-25-23.\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cIn the weeks leading up to Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, hundreds of the Palestinian Islamist militant group\u2019s fighters received specialized combat training in Iran, according to people familiar with intelligence related to the assault. Roughly 500 militants from Hamas and an allied group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, participated in the exercises in September, which were led by officers of the Quds Force, the foreign-operations arm of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the people said. Senior Palestinian officials and Iranian Brig. Gen. Esmail Qaani, the head of Quds Force, also attended, they said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quote of the Day\u2014\u201cThe orders come from one place\u2014Iran,\u201d IDF military spokesman Daniel Hagari.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/israel-hamas-war-palestinians-news\/card\/israeli-military-spokesman-says-iran-provided-support-training-to-hamas-2ecAcXJbp9rX7HuegWxy\">\u201cIsraeli Military Spokesman Says Iran Provided Support, Training to Hamas,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 10-25-23.<\/p>\n<p>(Another) Quote of the Day. \u201cHamas is not a terrorist organization, it is a liberation group, mujahideen waging a battle to protect its lands and people.\u201d\u00a0 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/article-770084\">\u201cTurkey\u2019s Erdogan: Hamas aren&#8217;t terrorists, they&#8217;re a liberation group,\u201d<\/a> Jerusalem Post, 10-25-23.\u00a0\u00a0Turkey\u2019s harboring of several top leaders of Hamas colors this story.\u00a0 This has been going on for years.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/weekly-standard\/hamas-still-finds-harbor-in-turkey\">\u201cHamas Still Finds Harbor in Turkey,\u201d<\/a> Washington Examiner, 6-8-16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ayatollah will not like reading this story (and it seems that it could be buried among other Oct. 25 stories); the good news is also that despite authoritarianism around the world (not just in the Middle East) and radical Islam, there is still the desire for freedom.\u00a0 \u201cSaudi crown prince indicates Israel normalization can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2023\/10\/25\/5110\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5110"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5134,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions\/5134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}