{"id":495072,"date":"2010-03-31T18:50:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011493321_politicaltugofwaroverjerusalem.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-03-31T18:50:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T22:50:08","slug":"political-tug-of-war-over-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/495072","title":{"rendered":"Political tug of war over Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What about Palestine?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ever since I learned how to talk, I would utter \u201cnext year in Jerusalem\u201d when Passover concludes.<\/p>\n<p>When I was 21 years old, those words came true as I celebrated a Seder in the city embedded in the heart and soul of every Jew.<\/p>\n<p>Why is the Obama administration publicly humiliating and punishing our most reliable Middle Eastern ally while asking nothing from Palestinians? Does the president honestly believe the obstacles to peace are apartments in Jerusalem? What about the attacks \u2014both physical and verbal \u2014from Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran? Why do these not receive his scathing treatment?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Abigail Sloan, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What about Palestine? Ever since I learned how to talk, I would utter \u201cnext year in Jerusalem\u201d when Passover concludes. When I was 21 years old, those words came true as I celebrated a Seder in the city embedded in the heart and soul of every Jew. Why is the Obama administration publicly humiliating and [&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-495072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495072","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=495072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}