{"id":9527,"date":"2009-07-28T15:46:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T23:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9527"},"modified":"2009-07-28T15:46:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T23:46:01","slug":"israelis-dont-regard-obama-as-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9527","title":{"rendered":"Israelis Don&#8217;t Regard Obama As A Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/28\/opinion\/28benn.html?_r=1\">An editor of the left-wing Israeli newspaper Haaretz writes in the New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Six months into his presidency, Israelis find themselves increasingly suspicious of Mr. Obama. All they see is American pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to freeze settlements, a request that&rsquo;s been interpreted here as political arm-twisting meant to please the Arab street at Israel&rsquo;s expense &mdash; or simply to express the president&rsquo;s dislike for Mr. Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>This would seem counterproductive, given the importance the president has placed on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. If Israel is part of the problem, it&rsquo;s also part of the solution. Yet so far, neither the president nor any senior administration official has given a speech or an interview aimed at an Israeli audience, beyond brief statements made at diplomatic photo ops.<\/p>\n<p>The Arabs got the Cairo speech; we got silence.<\/p>\n<p>This policy of ignoring Israel carries a price. Though Mr. Obama has succeeded in prodding Mr. Netanyahu to accept the idea of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, he has failed to induce Israel to impose a freeze on settlements. In fact, he has failed even to stir debate about the merits of one: no Israeli political figure has stood up to Mr. Netanyahu and begged him to support Mr. Obama; not even the Israeli left, desperate for a new agenda, has adopted Mr. Obama as its icon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An editor of the left-wing Israeli newspaper Haaretz writes in the New York Times: Six months into his presidency, Israelis find themselves increasingly suspicious of Mr. Obama. All they see is American pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to freeze &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9527\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569],"tags":[18332,14010,18330,18331,18329,750],"class_list":["post-9527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","tag-arab-street","tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","tag-photo-ops","tag-political-arm","tag-prime-minister-benjamin","tag-rsquo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527","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=9527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9528,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527\/revisions\/9528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}