{"id":13324,"date":"2009-06-14T02:13:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T02:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/binyamin_netanyahu_may_yield_to_two-state_solution_after_pressure_from_obam\/"},"modified":"2009-06-14T02:13:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T02:13:05","slug":"binyamin_netanyahu_may_yield_to_two-state_solution_after_pressure_from_obam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13324","title":{"rendered":"Binyamin Netanyahu may yield to two-state solution after pressure from Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Binyamin Netanyahu is expected to endorse a \u201ctwo-state solution\u201d\u009d in a much-heralded speech this weekend, but he may stall on American demands to freeze Jewish settlements in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling the squeeze between the US Administration, which wants a moratorium on settlement growth and a commitment to a Palestinian state, and his national-religious coalition, which favours neither, the Israeli Prime Minister appears likely to try to steer a middle course.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli newspapers were full of speculation about what Mr Netanyahu \u201d\u201d who has so far refused openly to back a Palestinian state alongside Israel \u201d\u201d might offer to deflect pressure from Washington. Ehud Barak, his Defence Minister, urged him this week to recognise a Palestinian state, but members of Mr Netanyahu\u2019s right-wing Likud party have cautioned him against the move.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/middle_east\/article6482077.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Binyamin Netanyahu is expected to endorse a \u201ctwo-state solution\u201d\u009d in a much-heralded speech this weekend, but he may stall on American demands to freeze Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Feeling the squeeze between the US Administration, which wants a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13324\">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":[40,50,209,143,144,565,203,616,151,667,567,566],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","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-war-in-gaza-december-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13324","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=13324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}