{"id":164,"date":"2011-05-28T11:49:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T11:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2011-06-08T05:11:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T05:11:38","slug":"the-surreal-state-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"The Surreal State Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div id=\"cphBody_dvArticleInfoBlock\">\n<div id=\"cphBody_dvSummary\"><strong>Following Obama&#8217;s weak speeches and Netanyahu&#8217;s rejection of any compromise, Palestinians look elsewhere for support.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/9610002-large1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-168\" title=\"9610002-large\" src=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/9610002-large1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/9610002-large1.jpg 380w, https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/9610002-large1-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a> It&#8217;s always bizarre to watch the cheering throng of US congressmen, their pockets lined with AIPAC contributions, fawn over a visiting Israeli leader as if he were a conquering war hero of their own. \u00a0But seen on YouTube from the West Bank, Binyamin Netanyahu&#8217;s fanciful walk through Middle East diplomacy, and his disingenuous endorsement of peace and democracy &#8211; accompanied by an estimated 55 standing ovations &#8211; was truly surreal.  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/indepth\/opinion\/2011\/05\/201152613420261590.html\">Read more, from Al-Jazeera English&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Obama&#8217;s weak speeches and Netanyahu&#8217;s rejection of any compromise, Palestinians look elsewhere for support. It&#8217;s always bizarre to watch the cheering throng of US congressmen, their pockets lined with AIPAC contributions, fawn over a visiting Israeli leader as if he were a conquering war hero of their own. \u00a0But seen on YouTube from the <a href=\"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=164#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/164"}],"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=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}