{"id":10890,"date":"2009-09-20T04:16:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T09:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10890"},"modified":"2009-09-20T04:17:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T09:17:38","slug":"hillary-the-maverick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10890","title":{"rendered":"Hillary the Maverick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Interview of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton<br \/>\nGlenn Kessler and Mary Beth Sheridan, <em>Washington Post<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/story\/2009\/09\/18\/ST2009091803780.html\">14 September 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>QUESTION: &#8230;.sometimes &#8212; just it seems like you&#8217;ve had &#8212; sometimes you&#8217;ve had &#8212; your language has been blunter than your typical diplomat.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION: One specific example I was thinking of, early on in the Administration you publicly called for a full settlement freeze, no natural growth, full stop on that. And some of your predecessors might have said that privately but not put it out there in a public domain&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Rice: US entirely opposed to Har Homa<br \/>\nBy HILARY LEILA KRIEGER, HERB KEINON AND KHALED ABU TOAMEH, <em>The Jerusalem Post<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1198517322280&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\">10 January 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the eve of US President George W. Bush&#8217;s visit to Israel and the region, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice placed the issue of settlement activity in the West Bank and east Jerusalem at center stage, telling <em>The Jerusalem Post<\/em> that &#8220;Har Homa is a settlement the United States has opposed from the very beginning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rice, who was accompanying Bush en route to Israel overnight Tuesday, said that &#8220;the United States doesn&#8217;t make a distinction&#8221; between settlement activity in east Jerusalem and the West Bank and that Israel&#8217;s road map obligations, which include a building freeze, relate to &#8220;settlement activity generally.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Glenn Kessler and Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 14 September 2009 QUESTION: &#8230;.sometimes &#8212; just it seems like you&#8217;ve had &#8212; sometimes you&#8217;ve had &#8212; your language has been blunter than your &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10890\">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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2PE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10890"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10896,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10890\/revisions\/10896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}