{"id":12387,"date":"2009-04-20T19:02:08","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T19:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/roger_cohen_israel_iran_and_fear\/"},"modified":"2009-04-20T19:02:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T19:02:08","slug":"roger_cohen_israel_iran_and_fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12387","title":{"rendered":"Roger Cohen: Israel, Iran and Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> As Shlomo Avineri, a political scientist, has written, Israel was supposed not only to take the Jewish people out of exile but ensure that exile was \u201ctaken out of the Jewish people.\u201d\u009d In this, 61 years after its creation, Israel has fallen short.<\/p>\n<p>Uncertainty does not so much hang over the country as inhabit its very fiber. Existential threats \u201d\u201d from Iran, from Hamas and Hezbollah, from demography \u201d\u201d are forever invoked. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses \u201d\u201d for now \u201d\u201d to support even the notion of Palestinian statehood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/20\/opinion\/20iht-edcohen.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Shlomo Avineri, a political scientist, has written, Israel was supposed not only to take the Jewish people out of exile but ensure that exile was \u201ctaken out of the Jewish people.\u201d\u009d In this, 61 years after its creation, Israel<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12387\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,564,565,203,567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-iran","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-the-palestinianisraeli-struggle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}