{"id":59073,"date":"2025-11-06T00:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59073"},"modified":"2025-11-06T00:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:22:12","slug":"dont-close-consulate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59073","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t close consulate!"},"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>Benjamin Netanyahu was so upset over the election of New York City&#8217;s first Muslim mayor, why &#8230; he is threatening to close the Israeli consulate office in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Please heed this advice from an American patriot who once spent five weeks in the enchanting nation: <em>Don&#8217;t do it, Mr. Prime Minister!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If ever there was a time to keep the lines of communication open and unobstructed, it is right now. NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s election was a stunner, for sure, to those who value the close U.S.-Israeli ties. I happen to one American who does value our alliance with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>I also happen to believe it would be a mistake to close the consulate in the nation&#8217;s largest city, which gives Israel direct contact with millions of Jewish-Americans who call NYC home. Closing the consulate would be an act of supreme petulance at a time when we need maturity and reason at the highest levels of international diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know it the Israeli prime minister was just venting his anger or if he intends to follow through with his threat. This much is clear. We live in a democratic republic where we should accept election results for better or for worse.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu needs to settle down, perhaps call the new mayor and seek a way to end the ongoing crises in the Middle East. It won&#8217;t happen if he closes the consulate in a fit of rage.<\/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>Benjamin Netanyahu was so upset over the election of New York City&#8217;s first Muslim mayor, why &#8230; he is threatening to close the Israeli consulate office in the Big Apple. Please heed this advice from an American patriot who once spent five weeks in the enchanting nation: Don&#8217;t do it, Mr. Prime Minister! If ever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59073\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t close consulate!<\/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":[609,2369,3050],"class_list":["post-59073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-bibi-netanyahu","tag-israel","tag-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59073","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=59073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59074,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59073\/revisions\/59074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}