{"id":81769,"date":"2015-12-09T12:56:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T20:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81769"},"modified":"2015-12-09T12:56:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T20:56:58","slug":"netanyahu-condemns-trumps-muslim-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81769","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu condemns Trump\u2019s Muslim ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/262647-netanyahu-condemns-trumps-muslim-ban\">REPORT<\/a>: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that he rejects Donald Trump\u2019s call for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state of Israel respects all religion and strictly adheres to the rights of all its citizens,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, Israel is fighting radical Islam which is attacking Muslims, Christians and Jews alike and threatens the entire world,\u201d Netanyahu added.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu\u2019s office also revealed Wednesday that he is not cancelling his huddle with the GOP presidential front-runner later this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Prime Minister decided earlier this year on a uniform policy to agree to meet with all presidential candidates from either party who visit Israel and ask for a meeting,\u201d the Israeli leader\u2019s office said in a statement, according to The Times of Israel.<br \/>\n\u201cThis policy does not represent an endorsement of any candidate or his or her views,\u201d the statement continued. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather, it is an expression of the importance that Prime Minister Netanyahu attributes to the strong alliance between Israel and the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu\u2019s office additionally confirmed it had scheduled Trump\u2019s visit before his controversial remarks on Muslims last Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It booked the meeting between both men two weeks ago, The Times of Israel said Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REPORT: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that he rejects Donald Trump\u2019s call for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. \u201cThe state of Israel respects all religion and strictly adheres to the rights of all its citizens,\u201d he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81769\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81769","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=81769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81770,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81769\/revisions\/81770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}