{"id":13049,"date":"2010-04-02T10:31:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T16:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13049"},"modified":"2010-04-02T10:31:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T16:31:37","slug":"grant-smith-obama-can-stop-funding-illegal-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13049","title":{"rendered":"Grant Smith: Obama Can Stop Funding Illegal Settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pull the Jewish Agency&#8217;s US Tax  Exemption, and the Settlement Problem Goes Away<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>by <a title=\"Posts by Grant Smith\" href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/author\/smith-grant\/\">Grant Smith<\/a>,\tAntiwar.com, 2 April 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama, Vice President Biden, and Secretary of State  Clinton have been uncharacteristically frank about how illegal Israeli  settlements obstruct prospects for Middle East peace.\u00a0 General Petraeus  went even further, advising a reluctant Congress that Arab perceptions  of one sided US support for Israel actually\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thekojonnamdishow.org\/shows\/2010-03-29\/petraeus-and-foreign-policy\">harms<\/a> US  national security and endangers troops.\u00a0 It is now time for President Obama to cut off hidden US funding \u2014 private and public \u2014 to illegal Israeli settlements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/smith-grant\/2010\/04\/01\/obama-can-stop-funding-illegal-settlements\/\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Until the cut-off of this and other funding then tiresome hand-wringing over the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2010\/03\/this-is-not-a-phony-crisis.html\">real or phony crisis<\/a>&#8221; is daftness or complicity in motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pull the Jewish Agency&#8217;s US Tax Exemption, and the Settlement Problem Goes Away by Grant Smith, Antiwar.com, 2 April 2010 President Obama, Vice President Biden, and Secretary of State Clinton have been uncharacteristically frank about how illegal Israeli settlements obstruct &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13049\">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-13049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3ot","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049","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=13049"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13058,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049\/revisions\/13058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}