{"id":17234,"date":"2010-01-12T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pontiff_notes_fundamental_need_in_mideast_conflict\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T16:00:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:00:29","slug":"pontiff_notes_fundamental_need_in_mideast_conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17234","title":{"rendered":"Pontiff Notes Fundamental Need in Mideast Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benedict XVI says peace in the Holy Land is possible, and that it hinges on Israelis and Palestinians recognizing their mutual right to a homeland.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope took up this theme today when he delivered his traditional New Year address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See.<\/p>\n<p>The Holy Father&#8217;s address for 2010 centered on the issue of respect for creation and the environment, the same theme he highlighted in his Jan. 1 message for the World Day of Peace.<\/p>\n<p>The Pontiff recalled how during his pilgrimage to the Holy Land last May, he &#8220;urgently appealed to the Israelis and the Palestinians to dialogue and to respect each others&#8217; rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/article-28018?l=english\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benedict XVI says peace in the Holy Land is possible, and that it hinges on Israelis and Palestinians recognizing their mutual right to a homeland. The Pope took up this theme today when he delivered his traditional New Year address<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17234\">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":[50,42,203,154,636,364,567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic","category-the-palestinianisraeli-struggle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17234","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=17234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}