{"id":74300,"date":"2015-09-11T08:43:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T16:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74300"},"modified":"2015-09-11T08:43:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T16:43:05","slug":"why-israels-elections-were-really-about-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74300","title":{"rendered":"WHY ISRAEL\u2019S ELECTIONS WERE REALLY ABOUT 1967"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/scroll\/189981\/why-israels-elections-were-really-about-1967\">Alon Gratch writes March 31, 2015<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>At my son\u2019s bar mitzvah, which took place a few years ago at a Conservative synagogue outside New York City, the rabbi delivered a sermon on the Six Day War, declaring it \u201cIsrael\u2019s finest hour.\u201d As he spoke, my brother, an Israeli businessman in his fifties, stood up and yelled, \u201cRabbi, I object to these statements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the rabbi tried to talk him down, my wife\u2014a gracious, well-mannered American\u2014turned to my brother and said, \u201cIf you don\u2019t stop this I\u2019m going to kill you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Without missing a beat, he responded, \u201cSome causes are worth dying for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alon Gratch writes March 31, 2015: At my son\u2019s bar mitzvah, which took place a few years ago at a Conservative synagogue outside New York City, the rabbi delivered a sermon on the Six Day War, declaring it \u201cIsrael\u2019s finest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74300\">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-74300","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\/74300","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=74300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74301,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74300\/revisions\/74301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}