{"id":1379,"date":"2016-03-31T08:41:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T15:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2016-04-19T09:04:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T16:04:40","slug":"beholden-a-kiss-was-just-a-kiss-hillary-clintons-march-to-the-radical-right-on-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"Beholden: A Kiss Was Just A Kiss: Hillary Clinton\u2019s March to the Hard Right on Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1380\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Hillary_truthdig.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1380\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1380 \" alt=\"Hillary Clinton as secretary of state in Israel. (The Israel Project \/ CC BY-SA 2.0)\" src=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Hillary_truthdig-300x205.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Hillary_truthdig-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Hillary_truthdig.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hillary Clinton as secretary of state in Israel. (The Israel Project \/ CC BY-SA 2.0)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>by Sandy Tolan<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, Hillary Clinton was considered a (relative) progressive on the issue of Israel\/Palestine. That was before she ran for U.S. Senate in New York, her first corrective step in a steady rightward march toward military intervention, war under false pretense, support for a military coup against a democratically elected president, a $29 billion weapons deal that benefited million-dollar donors to the Clinton Foundation, warm relations with accused war criminals then and now, and the embrace of a billionaire benefactor hell-bent on shutting down open discussion of Israel\u2019s human rights disaster in the Israeli-occupied territories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/a_kiss_was_just_a_kiss_hillary_clinton_radical_right_israel_20160331\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read the full article on TruthDig.\u00a0<i>This article is the fifth in \u201c<a title=\"Beholden\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/category\/beholden\">Beholden<\/a>,\u201d a seven-part series about the presidential candidates on Israel and Palestine.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; by Sandy Tolan Once upon a time, Hillary Clinton was considered a (relative) progressive on the issue of Israel\/Palestine. That was before she ran for U.S. Senate in New York, her first corrective step in a steady rightward march toward military intervention, war under false pretense, support for a military coup against a <a href=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=1379#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}