{"id":12961,"date":"2010-03-23T06:54:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T12:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12961"},"modified":"2010-03-23T06:54:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T12:54:17","slug":"bibi-being-bibi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12961","title":{"rendered":"Bibi being Bibi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Schumer to Bibi: How about that $1,800?<br \/>\nBy Ron Kampeas \u00b7 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.jta.org\/politics\/article\/2010\/03\/22\/1011297\/schumer-to-bibi-how-about-that-1800\">22 March 2010<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Schumers invited Bibi over for Shabbat dinner and put on quite a spread. Someone made the mistake of asking Bibi to explain price controls, which then beset Israel&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bibi being Bibi,&#8221; Schumer said, the ambassador took a 2-liter Pepsi bottle, unscrwed the cap, stuck his thumb in it and proceeded to shake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is Israel&#8217;s economy,&#8221; Netanyahu said. &#8220;It looks stable&#8230;&#8221; and then he pulled out his thumb.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It took me $1,800 to clean up the mess,&#8221; Schumer said &#8212; and he wanted to know if Bibi was ready to pay up.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, at least he wasn&#8217;t asking interest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, is Ron Kampeas a reporter or a friend promoting friends?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Netanyahu to AIPAC: Jerusalem not a settlement<br \/>\nBy Ron Kampeas \u00b7 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/news\/article\/2010\/03\/22\/1011298\/netanyahu-to-aipac-jerusalem-not-a-settlement\">22 March 2010<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Netanyahu also criticized the Palestinian Authority. &#8220;What has the Palestinian Authority done for peace?&#8221; Netanyahu said. &#8220;They have placed preconditions on peace talks, waged a relentless international campaign to undermine Israel&#8217;s legitimacy, and promoted the notorious Goldstone Report that falsely accuses Israel of war crimes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bibi being Bibi &#8211; creating catastrophe and demanding others clean up without interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schumer to Bibi: How about that $1,800? By Ron Kampeas \u00b7 22 March 2010 The Schumers invited Bibi over for Shabbat dinner and put on quite a spread. Someone made the mistake of asking Bibi to explain price controls, which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12961\">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-12961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3n3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12961","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=12961"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12970,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12961\/revisions\/12970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}