{"id":59,"date":"2009-06-22T13:28:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T17:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2009-06-22T13:28:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T17:28:18","slug":"a-pragmatic-basis-for-middle-east-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/22\/a-pragmatic-basis-for-middle-east-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pragmatic Basis for Middle East Peace?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic has a piece about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200907\/israel-sunni\">converging interests of Israel and the Sunni Arab states<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The  very idea of an Sunni\/Jewish axis seems preposterous, of course, but stranger  things have happened. The real takeaway from this article is that most of us (I  refer to myself here) have very little understanding of some of the deeper  geopolitical currents in the middle east (or anywhere else, I suppose).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span>I hope  that is not true for those in government who are responsible for dealing with  these things, but I fear that they my be as superficial and clueless as the rest  of us\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic has a piece about the converging interests of Israel and the Sunni Arab states. The very idea of an Sunni\/Jewish axis seems preposterous, of course, but stranger things have happened. The real takeaway from this article is that most of us (I refer to myself here) have very little understanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dovweinstock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}