{"id":30451,"date":"2020-05-06T13:57:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T18:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=30451"},"modified":"2020-05-06T14:06:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T19:06:50","slug":"politics-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=30451","title":{"rendered":"Politics of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Stauber went on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/government-and-politics\/4613600-Stauber-tweets-from-incredible-trip-to-Israel\">Congressional tour of Israel<\/a>. As I recall he walked down to touch the Jordan River while saying the government of Bibi Netanyahu was our most important ally in the Middle East. As a Congressman I&#8217;ll have my own perspective about our most important Middle eastern ally.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eve of  Destruction\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qMNGGTt81Qw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The first really big book I read was James Michener&#8217;s The Source. Michener was a world citizen if ever there was one. His 1000 page works of historical fiction took up a lot of space on a book shelf. The Source was about Israel and my last year in high school learning more about that corner of the world led me to stick my nose in a formidable wall of paper and ink. I only got half way through it that summer but the next year I picked it up again and polished it off. The book about the discoveries of fictitious archaeologists digging through a hill, a tell, built through generations of people from the stone age to the modern era living near a spring. <\/p>\n<p>Since that time I&#8217;ve relied on non fiction for my history but the introduction of the archaeologists at the beginning was charming. To the surprise of the book&#8217;s modern day narrator there was an Arab academic in the mix of diggers. The narrator was surprised to see a Muslim working side by side with Jewish Israelis. They all found the surprise of the American narrator charming. Why of course the Palestinians and Israeli&#8217;s got along famously. Until the didn&#8217;t in fifty years of news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>So here are two of my Not Eudora columns the first, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Diogenes\/NotEudora02\/eveofdestruction.htm\">Eve of Destruction<\/a>, from May 16, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>And the second, <a href=\"http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2019\/02\/15\/16051_you_have_my_sympathy_ilhan\">You have my Sympathy Ilhan<\/a>, written in Feb. 15, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Stauber went on a Congressional tour of Israel. As I recall he walked down to touch the Jordan River while saying the government&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,19,125,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congressional-election-2020","category-harry-welty","category-israel","category-pete-stauber-for-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30455,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30451\/revisions\/30455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}