{"id":19702,"date":"2010-06-01T16:13:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T00:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=19702"},"modified":"2010-06-04T15:23:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T23:23:16","slug":"who-lost-to-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=19702","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Prager: Who Lost Turkey?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past five years, Turkey, which has the second biggest army in NATO, has moved from an ally of the West to an ally of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>I guess Turkey, along with more and more of the world, is aligning with Iran because they see more advantages to do that than to align with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Under Barack Obama, the U.S. beats up on its friends (Israel, England, etc) and sucks up to its enemies (Iran and much of the Islamic world).<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has been part of NATO since its inception. Now it has a radical Islamic party in power. It&#8217;s trying to dismantle secular parts of Turkey and place the country in bed with Iran. <\/p>\n<p>It was Turks that attacked the Israeli soldiers on the flotilla Monday. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any stomach in NATO to eject Turkey, but the Europeans must be worried, says Dore Gold (former Israel ambassador to the United Nations) on the Dennis Prager radio show today.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has warned its citizens not to travel to Turkey. Until now, about 300,000 Israelis a year traveled to Turkey. No longer.<br \/>\nThe Islamists in Turkey have switched the Army to their side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past five years, Turkey, which has the second biggest army in NATO, has moved from an ally of the West to an ally of Iran. I guess Turkey, along with more and more of the world, is aligning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=19702\">Continue reading <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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,24,16759],"tags":[22442,30239,22394,22439,22441,22440],"class_list":["post-19702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-politics","category-turkey","tag-ally","tag-barack-obama","tag-flotilla","tag-islamic-party","tag-islamic-world","tag-israeli-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}