{"id":13174,"date":"2009-06-04T15:38:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T15:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/roger_cohen_bakers_ghost_in_cairo\/"},"modified":"2009-06-04T15:38:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T15:38:04","slug":"roger_cohen_bakers_ghost_in_cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13174","title":{"rendered":"Roger Cohen: Baker\u2019s Ghost in Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[James Baker said in 1989]: \u201cIsraeli interests in the West Bank and Gaza, security and otherwise, can be accommodated in a settlement based on Resolution 242. Forswear annexation; stop settlement activity.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Those words make startling but depressing reading: Little has changed in 20 years. After Bush 41 and Baker, we got Clinton\u2019s love affair with Yitzhak Rabin (\u201cI had come to love him as I had rarely loved another man\u201d\u009d); the disintegration of Oslo after Rabin\u2019s tragic assassination; and the Israel-can-do-no-wrong policy of Bush 43.<\/p>\n<p>Balance \u201d\u201d the credential no honest broker can forsake \u201d\u201d vanished from American diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t believe that\u2019s been good for Israel. The Jewish state needs to be challenged by its inseparable ally if it is to achieve the security it craves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/04\/opinion\/04iht-edcohen.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[James Baker said in 1989]: \u201cIsraeli interests in the West Bank and Gaza, security and otherwise, can be accommodated in a settlement based on Resolution 242. Forswear annexation; stop settlement activity.\u201d\u009d Those words make startling but depressing reading: Little has<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13174\">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":[39,40,50,143,144,565,203,616,151,667,567,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-the-palestinianisraeli-struggle","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174","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=13174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}