{"id":49853,"date":"2015-03-17T01:11:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T07:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/17\/the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend-this-week.html"},"modified":"2015-05-11T08:11:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:11:29","slug":"the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/17\/the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend-this-week.html","title":{"rendered":"The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend (This Week)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is offering medical assistance to al-Qa&#39;eda fighters, who are fighting Assad&#39;s Syrian army and Hezbollah. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile (according to another headline), Hezbollah is sending troops into Iraq to fight with Iraqi forces against ISIL.<\/p>\n<p>Remind me again who the US should be sending &quot;boots on the ground&quot; against?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Middle-East\/Report-Israel-treating-al-Qaida-fighters-wounded-in-Syria-civil-war-393862'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/8ZbDEGmm24mxkRQessREfsEIV9ilsEzdI4-O2sNcqZfsECKNGCpSYu4VwomblxYFS3S3vYRuO25_2ZPLfHlSzvwKyMkr9759y3Y=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Middle-East\/Report-Israel-treating-al-Qaida-fighters-wounded-in-Syria-civil-war-393862'>Report: Israel treating al-Qaida fighters wounded in Syria civil war<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nNusra Front is the Sunni Muslim al-Qaida offshoot which is currently fighting the Iranian-backed axis of Bashar Assad and Hezbollah in Syria.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Krd1CUpuAKX'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is offering medical assistance to al-Qa&#39;eda fighters, who are fighting Assad&#39;s Syrian army and Hezbollah. Meanwhile (according to another headline), Hezbollah is sending troops into Iraq to fight with Iraqi forces against ISIL. Remind me again who the US should be sending &quot;boots on the ground&quot; against? Report: Israel treating al-Qaida fighters wounded in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/17\/the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend-this-week.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend (This Week)&#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133951,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/26\/not-all-bad-guys-are-on-the-same-side.html","url_meta":{"origin":49853,"position":0},"title":"Not all bad guys are on the same side","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Jul-17 1:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Maybe Trump should just have his Secretary of State discuss all that complicated foreigner stuff, especially regarding Middle Eastern politics and alliances.Quoth Donald at a news conference with Prime Minister Saad Hariri: \"Lebanon is on the front lines in the fight against ISIS, al-Qaeda and Hezbollah. 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