{"id":89179,"date":"2016-03-06T09:33:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T17:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89179"},"modified":"2016-03-06T09:33:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T17:33:19","slug":"israel-will-be-better-off-without-the-pro-israel-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89179","title":{"rendered":"Israel Will Be Better Off Without The Pro-Israel Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton is more pro-Israel than Donald Trump. Trump is an American nationalist. He doesn&#8217;t care that much about the Middle East except to the extent it affects America. He won&#8217;t try to foist a peace treaty on Israel.<\/p>\n<p>If Israel decides to kick out its Arabs, Donald J. Trump won&#8217;t have an objection. Any other American president will have a major problem. <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it is better if somebody doesn&#8217;t care about you too deeply. You have more freedom and less weirdness that way. America and Israel will both be stronger if they increasingly go their separate ways. American interests are not identical to Israeli interests. <\/p>\n<p>If Israel can&#8217;t stand on its own two feet without American support, it doesn&#8217;t deserve to survive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton is more pro-Israel than Donald Trump. Trump is an American nationalist. He doesn&#8217;t care that much about the Middle East except to the extent it affects America. He won&#8217;t try to foist a peace treaty on Israel. 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