{"id":463435,"date":"2010-03-23T18:24:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T22:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011420639_krauthammerandthebidenincident.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-03-23T18:24:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T22:24:39","slug":"krauthammer-and-the-biden-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/463435","title":{"rendered":"Krauthammer and the &#8216;Biden incident&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Call it the \u2018Netanyahu incident\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a Jewish American and an Israeli, I challenge Charles Krauthammer\u2019s minimizing of the U.S. reaction to the \u201cBiden incident\u201d [\u201cU.S. reaction to Biden incident was overreaction,\u201d Opinion, March 22]. For starters, we might want to call it the \u201cNetanyahu incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For most of the world, east Jerusalem is occupied territory, just like the West Bank, and all settlements over the Green Line are illegal. It is absurd to see as confidence-building the ongoing confiscation of Palestinian land as state land and its subsequent construction for Jewish settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Even a conservative nationalist like Ari Shavit wrote recently in the Israeli Ha\u2019aretz newspaper that \u201cif a sane Israel does not wake up, it will be defeated by the metastasizing of the occupation and the lack of the central government\u2019s ability to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is time to set aside the tired and useless mantras heard by Krauthammer and members of AIPAC that \u201cthe Israelis have done everything for peace while the Palestinians have done nothing.\u201d I am reminded of the (Hebrew) anti-road-rage bumper sticker one sees on cars in Israeli: \u201cDon\u2019t be right, be smart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Simcha Shtull, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call it the \u2018Netanyahu incident\u2019 As a Jewish American and an Israeli, I challenge Charles Krauthammer\u2019s minimizing of the U.S. reaction to the \u201cBiden incident\u201d [\u201cU.S. reaction to Biden incident was overreaction,\u201d Opinion, March 22]. For starters, we might want to call it the \u201cNetanyahu incident.\u201d For most of the world, east Jerusalem is occupied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463435","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\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}