{"id":1889,"date":"2004-04-19T01:05:32","date_gmt":"2004-04-19T06:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2004-04-19T01:05:32","modified_gmt":"2004-04-19T06:05:32","slug":"other_foot_drops_with_rantisi_assassination_what_happens_now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/04\/other_foot_drops_with_rantisi_assassination_what_happens_now\/","title":{"rendered":": Other Foot Drops With Rantisi Assassination: What Happens Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/rantisi_yassin.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Many on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict expected it, but not quite so soon.  This weekend\u2019s missile attack on Hamas leader <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net%2FNR%2Fexeres%2FA8D13FD0-8BFB-4B8E-AE45-8451E0D4ED9A.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi<\/a> happened before the group could take revenge for the killing a few weeks ago of Hamas founder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk%2Fisrael%2FStory%2F0%2C2763%2C1175338%2C00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sheikh Ahmed Yassin<\/a> \u2013 and only a few days after Israeli PM Ariel Sharon got President Bush to <a href=\"http:\/\/usa.mediamonitors.net%2Fcontent%2Fview%2Ffull%2F6327%2F\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">discard decades<\/a> of US policy towards Israeli settlements in the West Bank.  Along with all the typical \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com%2Fworld%2F20040419-124047-7352r.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">raging Palestinians<\/a>\u201d commentary, this triple-shock to the status quo has led many analysts to the conclusion that all bets are off regarding the future of the Israeli\/Palestinian relationship.  (While some have opined that the US shift to Sharon\u2019s position gave a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hipakistan.com%2Fen%2Fdetail.php%3FnewsId%3Den61729%26F_catID%3D%26f_type%3Dsource\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">green light<\/a>\u201d to the Rantisi assassination, the truth is that the US never really had a \u201cred light\u201d \u2013 witness the same weak \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brunei-online.com%2Fbb%2Fmon%2Fapr19w17.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">show restraint, pretty please<\/a>\u201d statement given after this and previous killings.)  While the world (outside of the US) has been <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com%2Flatest.cfm%3Fid%3D2785660\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">unanimous<\/a> in its position of the illegality of settlements (as well as on Rantisi\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manoramaonline.com%2Fservlet%2FContentServer%3Fpagename%3Dmanorama%2FMmArticle%2FCommonFullStory%26c%3DMmArticle%26cid%3D1082062627849%26channel%3DNews%26p%3D1002194839100%26count%3D7\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">killing<\/a>), none has ever offered any substantive action to counter the increase in settlement activity or US support of it.  And little on the US side will change regardless of who wins the November elections, as Democratic candidate John Kerry made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com%2Ftemplate%2Ftemplate.asp%3Ftemplate%3DPalestine%26slug%3DKerry%2Bbacks%2BBush%2Bon%2BMideast%26id%3D52507%26callid%3D1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">abundantly clear<\/a> during interviews on Sunday that revealed a lock-step position on Israel\/Palestine.  So with the \u201croad map\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freelancestar.com%2FNews%2FFLS%2F2004%2F042004%2F04192004%2F1317329\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">burned<\/a> to a crisp, serious doubts about Sharon\u2019s Gaza intentions (and few doubts about his West Bank ones), and both presidential candidates in agreement, the only sure thing is a downward slide.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another major assassination by Israel was the latest in a week of dramatic events that leave the future of Mideast peace uncertain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>: Other Foot Drops With Rantisi Assassination: What Happens Now?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Another major assassination by Israel was the latest in a week of dramatic events that leave the future of Mideast peace uncertain.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/04\/other_foot_drops_with_rantisi_assassination_what_happens_now\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\": Other Foot Drops With Rantisi Assassination: What Happens Now?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Another major assassination by Israel was the latest in a week of dramatic events that leave the future of Mideast peace uncertain.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/04\/other_foot_drops_with_rantisi_assassination_what_happens_now\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"altmuslim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2004-04-19T06:05:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/rantisi_yassin.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shahed Amanullah\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shahed Amanullah\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/04\/other_foot_drops_with_rantisi_assassination_what_happens_now\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/04\/other_foot_drops_with_rantisi_assassination_what_happens_now\/\",\"name\":\": Other Foot Drops With Rantisi Assassination: What Happens Now?\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2004-04-19T06:05:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2004-04-19T06:05:32+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#\/schema\/person\/0e0efbb645cc461c721083358f82f945\"},\"description\":\"Another major assassination by Israel was the latest in a week of dramatic events that leave the future of Mideast peace uncertain.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/04\/other_foot_drops_with_rantisi_assassination_what_happens_now\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/04\/other_foot_drops_with_rantisi_assassination_what_happens_now\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/04\/other_foot_drops_with_rantisi_assassination_what_happens_now\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\": Other Foot Drops With Rantisi Assassination: What Happens Now?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\",\"name\":\"altmuslim\",\"description\":\"Global perspectives on Muslim life, politics &amp; 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