{"id":509,"date":"2006-07-17T14:44:05","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T18:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/word-of-the-day\/07\/17\/whose-scared-of-the-big-israeli-ghost\/index.html"},"modified":"2006-07-17T14:44:05","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T18:44:05","slug":"whose-scared-of-the-big-israeli-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/word-of-the-day\/07\/17\/whose-scared-of-the-big-israeli-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose scared of the big Israeli ghost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/07\/12\/AR2006071201627.html\">Washington Post Magazine article this Sunday on the relationship between the Israeli Lobby &#038; US Foreign Policy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ince the Cold War ended, they contend, Israel has become a strategic liability that ignites terrorism against the West and serves as a rallying cry and recruitment poster for bin Laden and al-Qaeda. What&#8217;s more, there&#8217;s no particular moral reason for the United States to support Israel. Despite a well-cultivated myth, Israel has always been stronger militarily than neighboring Arab states, racist and discriminatory in treating its own non-Jewish citizens and brutal when it comes to the Palestinians. &#8220;The creation of Israel entailed a moral crime against the Palestinian people,&#8221; the essay states baldly.<\/p>\n<p>As for the United States, it is the &#8220;de facto enabler of Israeli expansion in the occupied territories, making it complicit in the crimes perpetrated against the Palestinians.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And as a follow up, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/discussion\/2006\/07\/14\/DI2006071400780.html\">chat with writer Glenn Frankel<\/a> on his article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a Washington Post Magazine article this Sunday on the relationship between the Israeli Lobby &#038; US Foreign Policy: ince the Cold War ended, they contend, Israel has become a strategic liability that ignites terrorism against the West and serves as a rallying cry and recruitment poster for bin Laden and al-Qaeda. What&#8217;s more, there&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Whose scared of the big Israeli ghost? - Prose Before Hos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From a Washington Post Magazine article this Sunday on the relationship between the Israeli Lobby &amp; US Foreign Policy: ince the Cold War ended, they\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/word-of-the-day\/07\/17\/whose-scared-of-the-big-israeli-ghost\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Whose scared of the big Israeli ghost? 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