{"id":64966,"date":"2015-03-04T17:35:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T01:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64966"},"modified":"2015-03-05T09:08:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T17:08:22","slug":"are-americas-interests-and-israels-interests-identical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64966","title":{"rendered":"Are America&#8217;s interests and Israel&#8217;s interests identical?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If not, are the differences large at times? Does America have any vital national security interest in the Middle East? If so, what?<\/p>\n<p>Christoph Donnellan: &#8220;No, they&#8217;re not, but then U.S. Mideast Policy is dictated by the Israel Lobby, i.e. AIPAC and other unregistered agents of a foreign power. Our interests are to stay out of Middle Eastern tribal and sectarian conflicts, and to maintain neutrality in the Israel-Arab dispute as much as possible, at least not arming and subsidizing kooks like Nutty Yahoo and his settler friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chaim Amalek: &#8220;Today&#8217;s Bottom Line: Obama is not going to do anything meaningful to derail Iran&#8217;s drive towards nuclear supremacy in SW Asia. Netanyahu looks weak for coming over here to plead with a Republican Congress that the Administration (ours) reverse course because it just won&#8217;t happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If not, are the differences large at times? Does America have any vital national security interest in the Middle East? If so, what? Christoph Donnellan: &#8220;No, they&#8217;re not, but then U.S. Mideast Policy is dictated by the Israel Lobby, i.e. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64966\">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":[21791,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-israel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64966","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=64966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65006,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64966\/revisions\/65006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}