{"id":29059,"date":"2012-08-06T10:34:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T16:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/06\/is-obama-shunning-israel.html"},"modified":"2012-08-14T09:30:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:30:41","slug":"is-obama-shunning-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/06\/is-obama-shunning-israel.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Obama shunning Israel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new ad out against Obama by a pro-Israel group (and followed up by an ad from the Romney campaign) criticizes Obama for not visiting Israel during his first term. \u00a0Is this a sign of his disdain and antipathy toward that country?<\/p>\n<p>Not unless the same disdain and antipathy was shared by Reagan and both Bushes. \u00a0But I&#39;m sure that won&#39;t stop the folks attacking Obama about it.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/fact-checker\/post\/obama-knocked-for-not-visiting-israel\/2012\/08\/03\/9420de6e-dce3-11e1-8e43-4a3c4375504a_blog.html?wprss=rss_homepage'>Obama knocked for not visiting Israel<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFACT CHECKER | A pro-Israel group says President Obama has not visited Israel while traveling \u201call over the Middle East.\u201d Is his record unusual?\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/cNi57NuTp3m' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new ad out against Obama by a pro-Israel group (and followed up by an ad from the Romney campaign) criticizes Obama for not visiting Israel during his first term. \u00a0Is this a sign of his disdain and antipathy toward that country? Not unless the same disdain and antipathy was shared by Reagan and both &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/06\/is-obama-shunning-israel.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Obama shunning Israel?&#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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132457,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/28\/tweetizen-trump-2016-12-28-stay-strong-israel.html","url_meta":{"origin":29059,"position":0},"title":"Tweetizen Trump &#8211; 2016-12-28 &quot;Stay strong, Israel!&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Dec-16 9:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald, looks like you had some free time this morning to wax eloquent on a couple of topics:\u25ba Doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory President O statements and roadblocks.Thought it was going to be a smooth transition - NOT! \u00b9Well, y'know, Donald, when you campaign on a platform\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":132740,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/02\/and-still-more-foreign-policy-zaniness-from-the-trump-crew.html","url_meta":{"origin":29059,"position":1},"title":"And still more foreign policy zaniness from the Trump crew","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-Feb-17 5:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"After raking Barack Obama over the coals for daring to disagree with anything Israel chooses to do, and for not opposing a UN resolution condemning Israeli expansion of West Bank settlements, today the Trump Administration ...... basically kinda did the same thing.'\u201cWhile we don\u2019t believe the existence of settlements is\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":135487,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/03\/trumps-disdain-native-americans-isnt-limited-pocahontas-jabs.html","url_meta":{"origin":29059,"position":2},"title":"Trump&#8217;s disdain for Native Americans isn&#8217;t limited to all the &#8220;Pocahontas&#8221; jabs","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 3-Dec-17 5:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And he's moving to express it with all available speed. 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