{"id":132345,"date":"2016-12-15T23:11:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T06:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/15\/the-incendiary-president.html"},"modified":"2016-12-17T10:10:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T17:10:50","slug":"the-incendiary-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/15\/the-incendiary-president.html","title":{"rendered":"The Incendiary President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While there can be some value in shaking things up, breaking old habits, up-ending the status quo, that&#39;s a bit different from squirting gasoline on a smouldering fire. <\/p>\n<p>Appointing a US Ambassador to Israel who pooh-poohs a two-state solution, who favors West Bank settlements, who thinks Israel can just annex the West Bank legally, who plans to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem, who compares liberal US Jews who don&#39;t blindly support everything Israel does to <i>kapos<\/i> in the Nazi death camps, and who, <i>of course,<\/i> has no diplomatic experience &#8230; is not just shaking things up. It&#39;s shaking bottles of nitro up. <\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s almost like Trump wants to <i>swell<\/i> the ranks of anti-American terrorists in the Middle East.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/15\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-david-friedman-israel-ambassador.html?_r=0'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/SOKnKABW3nGLeMiSgo6WKrcm-W_cDiBelVRIQrCA2AVJ9INEGH3I2TOfLNChypPOzlLQ2H8HyzY3Gge_nT6l5swJcdptjO7FGGfd04VuYzu8wzEqB-8UvaMm8pDYfreq0vciUoJYDHf_Xe4p9-g=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/15\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-david-friedman-israel-ambassador.html?_r=0'>Trump Chooses Hard-Liner as Ambassador to Israel &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nDavid Friedman has questioned the need for a two-state solution and likened left-leaning American Jews to Jews who aided the Nazis in the Holocaust.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/BLXGY811ozb'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there can be some value in shaking things up, breaking old habits, up-ending the status quo, that&#39;s a bit different from squirting gasoline on a smouldering fire. Appointing a US Ambassador to Israel who pooh-poohs a two-state solution, who favors West Bank settlements, who thinks Israel can just annex the West Bank legally, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/15\/the-incendiary-president.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Incendiary President&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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}},"categories":[106,532,10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132625,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/24\/israel-to-expand-west-bank-settlements-again-still-some-more.html","url_meta":{"origin":132345,"position":0},"title":"Israel to expand West Bank settlements (again, still, some more)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 24-Jan-17 8:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because why shouldn't they, as our new President has basically told them they can and should and the US will have their back in doing so?Or, as PM Netanyahu has told his ministers, \"We can build where we want and as much as we want.\" Israel plans 2,500 new settlement\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2708,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/05\/13\/and_on_the_othe.html","url_meta":{"origin":132345,"position":1},"title":"And on the other hand","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 13-May-02 12:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"My support for Israel's battle against terrorism by Palestinian militants doesn't mean they get a blank check to keep building settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. 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