{"id":63553,"date":"2015-02-16T09:55:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T17:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63553"},"modified":"2015-02-16T09:58:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T17:58:22","slug":"new-idf-chief-faces-herculean-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63553","title":{"rendered":"New IDF Chief Faces Herculean Task?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nowhere does this analysis mention that <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-worlds-most-powerful-militaries-2014-12\">Israel<\/a> is <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures\">the Middle East&#8217;s strongest military power<\/a> and that it has no close competitor.<\/p>\n<p>I was asked by a mate in Australia yesterday what I thought about the back and forth between Obama and Netanyahu. I said it had little real meaning. It is all for show. Netanyahu can&#8217;t say that Jews should move to Israel to be safe and claim at the same time that Iran is a deadly threat to Israel. Iran&#8217;s building of nuclear weapons is in its strategic interest. Iran has not launched an offensive war in about 300 years. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-4627041,00.html\">YNET<\/a>: There are only two things about which we can be almost completely certain: The likelihood of a war breaking out on more than one front during Eisenkot&#8217;s term is much higher than during his predecessors&#8217; terms, and the window of opportunities for a peace agreement has been almost completely shut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowhere does this analysis mention that Israel is the Middle East&#8217;s strongest military power and that it has no close competitor. I was asked by a mate in Australia yesterday what I thought about the back and forth between Obama &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63553\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63553","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=63553"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63557,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63553\/revisions\/63557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}