{"id":2634,"date":"2011-01-31T15:02:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T15:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2011-01-31T15:02:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T15:02:12","slug":"red_herrings_as_we_search_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2634","title":{"rendered":"Red Herrings As We Search For Peace And Stability In The Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Podhoretz posted an article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/opinion\/opedcolumnists\/it_never_been_about_palestine_207FqIaxNIcGbmG7w24aVP\">New York Post<\/a>&nbsp;website yesterday with an interesting perspective on the unrest in the Middle East.&nbsp; Mr. Podhoretz points out that the Obama Administration has said that the key to peace in the Middle East is a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute over territory and the creation of a Palestinian state.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Podhoretz reminds us that during the first twenty years of Israel&#8217;s existence, all of its Arab neighbors were at war with her.&nbsp; During the past forty years, that situation has changed.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The article states:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Jordan effectively quit the fight after Israel&#8217;s triumph in the 1967 war cut Jordan in half.&nbsp; So too did the Arab states that did not share a border with Israel.&nbsp; The bloody toll of the &#8217;73 war then led Egypt and Syria to surrender their ambitious military efforts to drive Israel into the sea.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Recently, the problems in Israel have been with terrorists claiming to represent Palestinian interests based either in the West Bank, Gaza, or southern Lebanon.&nbsp; None of this is related to what is going on in Egypt. Jordan, or any other Arab state experiencing protests.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The rulers in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Jordan have all been in place for a minimum of thirty years (Mubarak has been in power for thirty years, the others longer).&nbsp; These are not democracies and all have severe economic inequities.&nbsp; Israel (and America)&nbsp;have been used as scapegoats to take the blame off of the totalitarian regimes.&nbsp; Why then are we surprised when the protesters are yelling, &#8220;Death to Israel and Death to America?&#8221;&nbsp; It is highly unlikely that thirty plus years of blaming Israel and America will give us a pro-western government. Unfortunately, a democracy in Egypt may bring us another Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Podhoretz posted an article on the New York Post&nbsp;website yesterday with an interesting perspective on the unrest in the Middle East.&nbsp; Mr. Podhoretz points out that the Obama Administration has said that the key to peace in the Middle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2634\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}