{"id":88383,"date":"2016-02-25T21:41:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T05:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88383"},"modified":"2016-02-25T21:41:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T05:41:44","slug":"listening-to-donald-trump-youd-think-hes-running-for-president-of-the-united-states-and-that-the-welfare-of-americans-was-his-primary-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88383","title":{"rendered":"Listening to Donald Trump, you&#8217;d think he&#8217;s running for president of the United States and that the welfare of Americans was his primary concern."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s really strange that Donald Trump isn&#8217;t all caught up in Israel&#8217;s security. I thought that was priority number one for American politicians. <\/p>\n<p>Most Americans don&#8217;t care much about Israel. Strangely enough, they care mainly about America. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/02\/republican-2016-debate-donald-trump-israel-219836?lo=ap_b2\">Politico<\/a>: In a break with standard Republican rhetoric on a politically charged foreign policy issue, Donald Trump insisted at Thursday&#8217;s debate that he would not take &#8220;sides&#8221; in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, drawing attacks from his rivals and even a charge that his position was &#8220;anti-Israel.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s probably the toughest negotiation anywhere in the world of any kind,&#8221; Trump said when asked about his recent comment that he would be a &#8220;neutral&#8221; broker between Israel and the Palestinians. &#8220;But it doesn&#8217;t help if I start saying, &#8216;I am very pro-Israel, very pro, more than anybody on this stage.&#8217; &#8221; Trump added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s really strange that Donald Trump isn&#8217;t all caught up in Israel&#8217;s security. I thought that was priority number one for American politicians. Most Americans don&#8217;t care much about Israel. Strangely enough, they care mainly about America. Politico: In a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88383\">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-88383","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\/88383","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=88383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88384,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88383\/revisions\/88384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}