{"id":699,"date":"2015-03-19T10:15:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T16:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=699"},"modified":"2015-03-19T10:15:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T16:15:06","slug":"a-call-to-support-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"A call to support Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/9-usa-israel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-698\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/9-usa-israel-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"9-usa-israel\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/9-usa-israel-300x182.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/9-usa-israel.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The current state of the Middle East:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christians, homosexuals, men, women and even children are being stoned, beheaded, crucified and thrown off buildings by ISIL.<\/li>\n<li>Women and children are being sold into slavery by ISIL.<\/li>\n<li>Iran is actively pursuing nuclear weapons.<\/li>\n<li>Islamic terrorism is on the rise throughout the world.<\/li>\n<li>The most stabilizing nation in the region &#8211; Israel (a real paradox, but I have a few theories there) &#8211; continues to be under assault.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So&#8230; how does President Obama address this?<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Token bomb runs. (7 a day is a non-response).<\/li>\n<li>A jobs program to solve the ISIL problem.<\/li>\n<li>Taking Iran and Hamas off the terror list.<\/li>\n<li>Using tax dollars to try and defeat Netanyahu in Israel&#8217;s election.<\/li>\n<li>Cutting a deal with Iran to give them an open path to becoming a nuclear power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honestly, I don&#8217;t know what he is trying to do. I don&#8217;t buy the muslim sympathizer conspiracy theories because a) Islamic factionism and b) his actions are consistent with Progressive approaches with the &#8220;disaffected.&#8221; However, if he&#8217;s trying to play Sunni off against Shiite and let ISIL and Iran destroy each other, he&#8217;s badly misguided. Whoever comes out on top will be stronger that either and will be looking at Europe then the U.S. as their next targets.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m seriously beginning to think that it is becoming time for the Congress to pass a resolution declaring support of Israel and congratulating Netanyahu for his overwhelming victory. It&#8217;s dangerous and it&#8217;s unconventional &#8211; I understand the risks, but it&#8217;s not without precedent. When the President is establishing a foreign policy that is so opposed to the sentiments of the American people, it is entirely appropriate for the people &#8211; as represented by the Congress &#8211; to make their feelings known to the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current state of the Middle East: Christians, homosexuals, men, women and even children are being stoned, beheaded, crucified and thrown off buildings by ISIL. Women and children are being sold into slavery by ISIL. Iran is actively pursuing nuclear &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=699\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"A call to support Israel!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[16,22,49,51,68,152,151,150,80,81,83,91,149,108,117],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-news","tag-isis","tag-tcot","tag-culture-2","tag-current-events","tag-government","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-isil","tag-islam","tag-israel","tag-jihad","tag-middle-east","tag-netanyahu","tag-religion-2","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yCHs-bh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}