{"id":7942,"date":"2011-09-23T12:06:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T17:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=7942"},"modified":"2011-09-23T12:15:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T17:15:18","slug":"colbert-interviews-jeremy-ben-ami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/09\/23\/colbert-interviews-jeremy-ben-ami\/","title":{"rendered":"Colbert Interviews Jeremy Ben-Ami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <em>The Colbert Report<\/em> article accompanying this video, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/397772\/september-22-2011\/jeremy-ben-ami\" title=\"Colbert Report article\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Ben-Ami<\/a><\/strong>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nJeremy Ben-Ami, the president of the [pro-Peace,] pro-Israel lobby J Street, discusses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Palestine&#8217;s application for full U.N. membership.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<embed src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:video:colbertnation.com:397772\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" base=\".\" flashVars=\"\"><\/embed>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Even in this situation, sometimes a little humor can help to clarify.  Well, I am not really sure what it clarifies.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps to fully appreciate some of the comments in the interview, you have to see the piece, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/397771\/september-22-2011\/obama-s-u-n--gaffes---rick-perry-s-support-for-israel\" title=\"Article with the video that preceded the interview\" target=\"_blank\">Obama&#8217;s U.N. Gaffes &#038; Rick Perry&#8217;s Support for Israel<\/a><\/strong>, that preceded this video.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<embed src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:video:colbertnation.com:397771\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" base=\".\" flashVars=\"\"><\/embed><\/div>\n<pre>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Colbert Report article accompanying this video, Jeremy Ben-Ami, Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of the [pro-Peace,] pro-Israel lobby J Street, discusses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Palestine&#8217;s application for full U.N. membership. Even in this situation, sometimes a little humor can help to clarify. Well, I am not really sure what it clarifies. Perhaps [&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-7942","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\/7942","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=7942"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7946,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7942\/revisions\/7946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}