{"id":24600,"date":"2017-09-20T12:40:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T16:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24600"},"modified":"2017-09-20T12:40:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T16:40:34","slug":"what-bibi-said-at-the-un-was-true-and-thats-horrifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/09\/20\/what-bibi-said-at-the-un-was-true-and-thats-horrifying\/","title":{"rendered":"What Bibi Said At The UN Was True \u2014 And That\u2019s Horrifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Forward<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/383249\/what-bibi-said-at-the-un-was-true-and-thats-horrifying\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What Bibi Said At The UN Was True \u2014 And That\u2019s Horrifying<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOn Yom Kippur, we will hear Isaiah demand that we \u201cunlock the fetters of wickedness, untie the cords of the yoke and let the oppressed go free.\u201d And what happens if we don\u2019t?<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday at the General Assembly, Netanyahu gave his answer: Nothing will happen. In fact, we will prosper because what matters in this world is power. It\u2019s Pharaoh\u2019s answer, horrifying to hear from the leader of a Jewish state. But nothing I can see proves it wrong.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t know the history, <em>The Forward<\/em> is a Jewish newspaper.  Don&#8217;t blame me for what my maternal grandfather&#8217;s favorite newspaper has to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Forward has the article What Bibi Said At The UN Was True \u2014 And That\u2019s Horrifying. On Yom Kippur, we will hear Isaiah demand that we \u201cunlock the fetters of wickedness, untie the cords of the yoke and let the oppressed go free.\u201d And what happens if we don\u2019t? On Tuesday at the General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24601,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24600\/revisions\/24601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}