{"id":2921,"date":"2008-02-16T16:57:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T22:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2008-02-16T16:57:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T22:57:01","slug":"jewish-functionaries-stirring-the-clinton-obama-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2921","title":{"rendered":"Jewish functionaries stirring the Clinton-Obama race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Akiva Eldar, <em>Ha&#8217;aretz<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/954463.html\">15 February 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tensions in the race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination are mirrored in the American Jewish community. As the gap between the front-runners narrowed in the primaries, the clash between the two Jewish camps has become more heated.<\/p>\n<p>Official Israel is making an effort to maintain a respectable neutrality. Has-beens are being called into the ring, like a former ambassador to Washington, Dan Ayalon, who jabbed Obama in a sensitive spot &#8211; the volume of his support for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Ayalon is not alone. Jewish advisers and non-Jewish supporters are almost obsessively occupied with searching for skeletons in the black candidate&#8217;s past.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Party&#8217;s neoconservative clique is trawling archives for &#8220;anti-Israeli&#8221; essays by advisers who had been seen in Obama&#8217;s staff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/954463.html\">Read the report<\/a>]\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Justin Raimondo:\u00a0                 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/justin\/?articleid=12366\">The War Party Targets Obama<\/a>\u00a0               <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Akiva Eldar, Ha&#8217;aretz, 15 February 2008 Tensions in the race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination are mirrored in the American Jewish community. As the gap between the front-runners narrowed in the primaries, the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2921\">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-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-L7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","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=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}