{"id":22078,"date":"2017-06-01T14:12:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T14:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22078"},"modified":"2017-06-01T14:12:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T14:12:06","slug":"sanity-presents-itself-in-trump-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22078","title":{"rendered":"Sanity presents itself in Trump White House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/trumpnetanyahu_052217getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22083\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/trumpnetanyahu_052217getty-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/trumpnetanyahu_052217getty-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/trumpnetanyahu_052217getty.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump pledged to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>Then the president thought better of it. He has signed a six-month extension to keep the embassy where it&#8217;s been since the founding of Israel in 1948, in Tel Aviv, a relatively safe distance from where terrorists and other sworn enemies of the United States and Israel commit their acts of violence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/335850-trump-keeps-us-embassy-in-tel-aviv?rnd=1496325457\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/335850-trump-keeps-us-embassy-in-tel-aviv?rnd=1496325457<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Palestinians want East Jerusalem to become capital of an independent state, when or if that occurs. The Israelis claim all of Jerusalem as their own holy place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that peace is possible if we put aside the pain and disagreements of the past and commit together to finally resolving this crisis,&#8221; Trump said in\u00a0a speech in Jerusalem. &#8220;I am personally committed to helping Israelis and Palestinians achieve a peace agreement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to broker a peace deal that determines the fate of the holy city, which has been the goal of U.S. presidents of both political parties all along.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has seen the reality of the situation and has backed off his overheated campaign pledge and has decided the status quo isn&#8217;t such a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>Good call, Mr. President.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump pledged to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Then the president thought better of it. He has signed a six-month extension to keep the embassy where it&#8217;s been since the founding of Israel in 1948, in Tel Aviv, a relatively safe distance from where terrorists and other sworn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22078\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sanity presents itself in Trump White House<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1424,2369,2454,3050,3477,5246],"class_list":["post-22078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem","tag-middle-east","tag-palestinian-state","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22084,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22078\/revisions\/22084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}