{"id":49356,"date":"2015-01-24T23:09:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T23:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/24\/the-gopisraeli-alliance.html"},"modified":"2015-01-24T23:09:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T23:09:42","slug":"the-gopisraeli-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/24\/the-gopisraeli-alliance.html","title":{"rendered":"The GOP\/Israeli Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, pretty much a dick move from Boehner and Netanyahu both, and indicative of both Israeli right-wing arrogance and the GOP&#39;s interest, not in policy, but in delegitimizing Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Inviting the Israeli PM to speak before Congress on the subject of Iran (and, presumably, US policy toward same), without involving the White House (and, in fact keeping the planning of it explicitly secret from the Administration) is a an ugly, destructive move on their part.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Steven Flaeck<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/1\/24\/7884311\/netanyahu-boehner-fox-news'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/RkPhnUOjIjtlFlsYna36zv6MOWW4znnek6sj_rNhKsa1tt4Tg-GO8Sy5gIp_QyBzRwva8rCE_6ME9PkTndIf9VYmfzMmrr1ni5eZUzHf3YMWa_7haK5FMj8yXR7bZNq4nJWTQZKf-lnrVUFabAqTNlLRphc8=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/1\/24\/7884311\/netanyahu-boehner-fox-news'>Even Fox News is outraged at Boehner and Netanyahu&#8217;s plan to undermine Obama<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nHost Chris Wallace called the move by the Israeli leader &#8220;wicked.&#8221; Wow.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/17uWiS6bLfk'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, pretty much a dick move from Boehner and Netanyahu both, and indicative of both Israeli right-wing arrogance and the GOP&#39;s interest, not in policy, but in delegitimizing Obama. Inviting the Israeli PM to speak before Congress on the subject of Iran (and, presumably, US policy toward same), without involving the White House (and, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/24\/the-gopisraeli-alliance.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The GOP\/Israeli Alliance&#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49356","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":132430,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/23\/us-abstains-from-un-condemnation-of-israeli-settlements.html","url_meta":{"origin":49356,"position":0},"title":"US abstains from UN condemnation of Israeli settlements","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 23-Dec-16 3:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And I'm happy it did, despite Trump's tweets. 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