{"id":66133,"date":"2015-03-21T19:17:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T03:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=66133"},"modified":"2015-03-21T19:20:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T03:20:17","slug":"what-is-the-american-presidents-place-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=66133","title":{"rendered":"What Is The American President&#8217;s Place?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/21\/us\/netanyahu-tactics-anger-many-us-jews-deepening-a-divide.html\">From The New York Times<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy greatest thrill is that Netanyahu was able to pull off a feat that in my opinion was not only good for the morale of Israel and the security of Israel, but finally put Obama in his place,\u201d said Rabbi Shoham.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is the American president&#8217;s place? As the servant of Israel?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said that he saw Israel was becoming more isolated internationally, but that he was not terribly troubled by it because of what he said was a basic Jewish principle: \u201cBeing more or less in control of your own self, your own country, or your own being is much more important than being loved by others.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Would that whites had this same attitude. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: \u201cMy greatest thrill is that Netanyahu was able to pull off a feat that in my opinion was not only good for the morale of Israel and the security of Israel, but finally put Obama &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=66133\">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":[1569,26483,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-benjamin-netanyahu-2","category-israel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From The New York Times: \u201cMy greatest thrill is that Netanyahu was able to pull off a feat that in my opinion was not only good for the morale of Israel and the security of Israel, but finally put Obama in his place,\u201d said Rabbi Shoham. 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