{"id":12989,"date":"2010-03-24T04:27:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T10:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12989"},"modified":"2010-03-24T04:27:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T10:27:48","slug":"ali-abunimah-mideast-peace-effort-is-a-charade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12989","title":{"rendered":"Ali Abunimah: Mideast peace effort is a charade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ali Abunimah, Special to CNN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(CNN) &#8212; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Monday speech to America&#8217;s leading pro-Israel lobby took on added significance in light of the spat between the U.S. and Israel over the expansion of Jewish settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>It indicated the Obama administration blinked in the face of continued Israeli defiance, but that Israel likely faces more trouble down the road.<\/p>\n<p>The row began when Israel announced 1,600 new Jewish-only homes on occupied Palestinian land on March 9, the very day Vice President Joe Biden was in the country to launch indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/OPINION\/03\/17\/abunimah.settlements.israel\/index.html\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ali Abunimah, Special to CNN (CNN) &#8212; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Monday speech to America&#8217;s leading pro-Israel lobby took on added significance in light of the spat between the U.S. and Israel over the expansion of Jewish settlements &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12989\">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-12989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3nv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12989","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=12989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12992,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12989\/revisions\/12992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}