{"id":319954,"date":"2010-02-14T15:05:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T20:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=32552"},"modified":"2010-02-14T15:05:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T20:05:58","slug":"iran-not-the-greatest-threat-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/319954","title":{"rendered":"Iran:  Not the Greatest Threat to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Doug Bandow<\/p>\n<p>Telling the truth can be embarrassing.&nbsp; Like when Defense Minister and former prime minister Ehud Barak admitted that the Palestinian conflict was a greater problem than Iran for Israel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/world\/ehud-barak-defies-benjamin-netanyahu-on-threat-to-israel\/story-e6frg6so-1225824120520\">Reports <em>The Australian<\/em>:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>ISRAELI Defence Minister Ehud Barak says the conflict with Palestinians poses a greater threat to Israel than Iran&#8217;s nuclear program &#8211; a significant departure from the view of his Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Barak warned yesterday that unless Israel helped create a Palestinian state, it would end up losing its Jewish character or becoming undemocratic &#8220;and we will turn into an apartheid state&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came as Mr Netanyahu visited Poland to attend an International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Auschwitz death camp, where he was expected to describe Iran&#8217;s nuclear program as a modern threat equivalent to the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>The major theme of Mr Netanyahu&#8217;s speeches since becoming Prime Minister last March has been to list Iran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions as the top threat to Israel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet another reason for caution in dealing with Iran.&nbsp; There really are bigger threats in the world today.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Bandow, American Conservative Defense Alliance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Doug Bandow Telling the truth can be embarrassing.&nbsp; Like when Defense Minister and former prime minister Ehud Barak admitted that the Palestinian conflict was a greater problem than Iran for Israel. Reports The Australian: ISRAELI Defence Minister Ehud Barak says the conflict with Palestinians poses a greater threat to Israel than Iran&#8217;s nuclear program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}