{"id":86564,"date":"2016-01-27T00:45:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T08:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=86564"},"modified":"2023-09-06T04:50:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:50:27","slug":"israel-not-messing-with-islamic-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=86564","title":{"rendered":"Israel Not Messing With Islamic State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/in-the-middle-east-a-serious-game-of-war\/2016\/01\/26\/30c3cfac-c466-11e5-a4aa-f25866ba0dc6_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-d%3Ahomepage%2Fstory\">From the Washington Post<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Israelis don\u2019t want to disturb a hornet\u2019s nest in taking on the Islamic State. Is a similarly measured option available to the United States? Most Israeli officials say no. They argue that the United States is a superpower, and that if it wants to maintain leadership in the region, it must lead the fight to roll back the Islamic State.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The United States has no vital strategic interests here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post: The Israelis don\u2019t want to disturb a hornet\u2019s nest in taking on the Islamic State. Is a similarly measured option available to the United States? Most Israeli officials say no. They argue that the United States &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=86564\">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-86564","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\/86564","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=86564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151186,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86564\/revisions\/151186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}