{"id":464,"date":"2013-03-20T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/20\/eternal-alliance-thats-as-strong-as-it-gets"},"modified":"2013-03-20T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T18:06:00","slug":"eternal-alliance-thats-as-strong-as-it-gets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Eternal\u2019 alliance: That\u2019s as strong as it gets"},"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>President Obama declared today that the U.S. alliance with Israel is \u201ceternal,\u201d and that it will stand forever.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/administration\/289197-on-first-visit-to-israel-as-president-obama-vows-eternal-alliance\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/administration\/289197-on-first-visit-to-israel-as-president-obama-vows-eternal-alliance\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/administration\/289197-on-first-visit-to-israel-as-president-obama-vows-eternal-alliance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is there any stronger statement that the president can make to assuage concerns among Israelis and his critics at home? I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n<p>Obama is making his first trip to Israel as president. He was greeted at Ben-Gurion Airport just outside Tel Aviv with a kind of man hug by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who also recently won re-election in Israel. It\u2019s been said that relations between the two heads of government are frosty. Indeed, Netanyahu demands a lot from U.S. presidents, as he should. His country is surrounded by eternal enemies, some of whom \u2013 namely Egypt and Jordan \u2013 have signed peace treaties with Israel. And not too many miles away, in Iran, the Islamist madmen who run that country are still vowing to destroy Israel. So, it\u2019s understandable that Netanyahu would seek ironclad statements \u2013 and demonstrations \u2013 of support from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>By my reading of the statements made by President Obama, he delivered such a statement today upon arrival in the Holy Land. <\/p>\n<p>And that is to the president\u2019s great credit.<\/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>President Obama declared today that the U.S. alliance with Israel is \u201ceternal,\u201d and that it will stand forever. http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/administration\/289197-on-first-visit-to-israel-as-president-obama-vows-eternal-alliance Is there any stronger statement that the president can make to assuage concerns among Israelis and his critics at home? I don\u2019t think so. Obama is making his first trip to Israel as president. He was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=464\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Eternal\u2019 alliance: That\u2019s as strong as it gets<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","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=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}