{"id":7803,"date":"2009-01-04T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7803"},"modified":"2009-01-04T09:00:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T17:00:37","slug":"wheres-obama-on-israels-gaza-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7803","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Obama On Israel&#8217;s Gaza Invasion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jews voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama. It would be darkly funny if he proved fatal to the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/01012009\/news\/columnists\/bam_stirs_fears_in_israel_146762.htm\">Ralph Peters nails it in the New York Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Israel can deal with self-aggrandizing busybodies, such as French President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/topics\/topic.php?t=Nicolas_Sarkozy\">Nicolas Sarkozy<\/a>, whose irresponsible attempts to force a cease-fire upon Israel benefit only Hamas. (Carla, can&#8217;t you give that guy something to <em>do<\/em>?) But Israel would be hard pressed to fight on without American support.<\/p>\n<p>As government leaders and generals in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv weigh the question of whether or not to send tanks into Gaza&#8217;s streets, they hear the clock ticking. A major ground incursion would take time. Would Israel Defense Forces soldiers find themselves fighting on political quicksand?<\/p>\n<p>Despite the frankly anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish reporting of this conflict in the global media, Israel&#8217;s military performance not only has been technically superb, but has been as humane as possible under such difficult circumstances.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jews voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama. It would be darkly funny if he proved fatal to the Jewish state. Ralph Peters nails it in the New York Post: Israel can deal with self-aggrandizing busybodies, such as French President Nicolas Sarkozy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7803\">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":[1569,37],"tags":[30239,15216,15213,15214,15217,15215],"class_list":["post-7803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-israel","tag-barack-obama","tag-french-president-nicolas","tag-french-president-nicolas-sarkozy","tag-israel-defense-forces","tag-nicolas-sarkozy","tag-president-nicolas-sarkozy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7803","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=7803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}