{"id":28362,"date":"2011-09-21T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tom_friedman-israel_casts_itself_adrift\/"},"modified":"2011-09-21T17:35:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T17:35:12","slug":"tom_friedman-israel_casts_itself_adrift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28362","title":{"rendered":"Tom Friedman&#8211;Israel casts itself adrift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been more worried about Israel&#8217;s future. The crumbling of key pillars of Israel&#8217;s security &#8212; the peace with Egypt, the stability of Syria and the friendship of Turkey and Jordan &#8212; coupled with the most diplomatically inept and strategically incompetent government in Israel&#8217;s history have put Israel in a very dangerous situation.<\/p>\n<p>This has also left the U.S. government fed up with Israel&#8217;s leadership but a hostage to its ineptitude, because the powerful pro-Israel lobby in an election season can force the administration to defend Israel at the United Nations, even when it knows Israel is pursuing policies not in its own interest or America&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/11263\/1175968-109.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been more worried about Israel&#8217;s future. The crumbling of key pillars of Israel&#8217;s security &#8212; the peace with Egypt, the stability of Syria and the friendship of Turkey and Jordan &#8212; coupled with the most diplomatically inept and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28362\">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":[40,50,144,565,203,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-foreign-relations","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28362","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=28362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}