{"id":15074,"date":"2009-09-20T09:03:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T09:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/sunday_london_times_obama_stumped_by_israel_as_all_worlds_problems_arrive\/"},"modified":"2009-09-20T09:03:49","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T09:03:49","slug":"sunday_london_times_obama_stumped_by_israel_as_all_worlds_problems_arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15074","title":{"rendered":"Sunday (London) Times: Obama stumped by Israel as all world\u2019s problems arrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It  was supposed to be the week President Barack Obama saved the world. More than 100 heads of state are preparing to descend on New York for talks on halting climate change, promoting nuclear disarmament, defeating terrorism in Pakistan and tackling poverty in sub-Saharan Africa \u201d\u201d all before a G20 meeting in Pittsburgh on Friday aimed at reaching agreements on global financial regulation and curbing bankers\u2019 bonuses.<\/p>\n<p>The headline-grabber was expected to be the relaunch of the stalled Middle East peace process, to be followed a week later by America\u2019s first direct talks with Iran since the Islamic revolution in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, attempts to revive talks between Israelis and Palestinians, the cornerstone of the administration\u2019s foreign policy, have failed so far. Western diplomats say it will take all the president\u2019s considerable charisma to revive them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/article6841332.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was supposed to be the week President Barack Obama saved the world. More than 100 heads of state are preparing to descend on New York for talks on halting climate change, promoting nuclear disarmament, defeating terrorism in Pakistan and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15074\">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":[40,50,209,144,565,203,616,151,667,567,566],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","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\/15074","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=15074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}