{"id":444,"date":"2003-04-21T08:50:56","date_gmt":"2003-04-21T13:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2003\/04\/21\/next-step\/"},"modified":"2003-04-21T08:50:56","modified_gmt":"2003-04-21T13:50:56","slug":"next-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2003\/04\/21\/next-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Editorial: New leverage \/ Bush should lean on Israel, too\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/stories\/1519\/3834822.html\">Editorial: Bush should lean on Israel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This oped piece in the Star Tribune today pretty much nails it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the greatest opportunity lies not in changing the behavior of potential foes but forcefully nudging friends, namely Israel, to do what needs to be done &#8212; and that&#8217;s to restart a constructive process that will bring peace to Jewish and Palestinian states. No single event would better protect American shores from terrorist threats in the long run.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m convinced that the large majority of our problems in the middle east stem from our support of Israel and it&#8217;s actions (through our failure to criticize Israel for anything it does).  If we can force Israel and Palestine to establish a sustainable peace, it would go a long way towards stability in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial: Bush should lean on Israel This oped piece in the Star Tribune today pretty much nails it: But the greatest opportunity lies not in changing the behavior of potential foes but forcefully nudging friends, namely Israel, to do what needs to be done &#8212; and that&#8217;s to restart a constructive process that will bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-7a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}