{"id":16815,"date":"2015-03-18T14:35:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T18:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=16815"},"modified":"2015-03-18T14:35:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T18:35:32","slug":"bibis-ugly-win-will-harm-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2015\/03\/bibis-ugly-win-will-harm-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Bibi\u2019s Ugly Win Will Harm Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/03\/18\/bibi-s-ugly-win-will-harm-israel.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1426674964423.cached.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bibi and Likud\u00a0might\u00a0be in for a rude shock at the United Nations.\u00a0On Tuesday,\u00a0moderate Democratic\u00a0Rep. Adam Schiff,\u00a0the ranking\u00a0member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told CNN that it was \u201chard to imagine\u201d there would be no consequences\u00a0from Netanyahu\u2019s new one-state views.<\/p>\n<p>Bibi\u00a0has placed all his chips on the Republican Congress, which has no say over how the U.S. votes in the U.N. Schiff\u2014who often reflects the view of the White House\u2014hinted that the Obama administration might\u00a0consider selectively\u00a0lifting\u00a0the American\u00a0veto in the Security Council that has protected Israel for more than six decades.<\/p>\n<p>While the U.S. will\u00a0no doubt continue to\u00a0veto\u00a0the most obnoxious\u00a0U.N.\u00a0resolutions, others (like those based on\u00a0comments of U.S. officials about the need for a two-state solution) are now\u00a0more likely to pass\u00a0with the tacit support of the U.S., opening a new chapter in international pressure on Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Beset\u00a0by European\u00a0boycotts, rebuked by international tribunals,\u00a0estranged from the president of the United States\u2014it\u2019s not a pretty picture of the fate of America\u2019s\u00a0closest ally in the region.<\/p>\n<p>But that might be the fallout from\u00a0the most bruising\u00a0and consequential\u00a0Israeli\u00a0election\u00a0in\u00a0many years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/03\/18\/bibi-s-ugly-win-will-harm-israel.html\">&gt;&gt;Read Original Article &#8211; The Daily Beast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bibi and Likud\u00a0might\u00a0be in for a rude shock at the United Nations.\u00a0On Tuesday,\u00a0moderate Democratic\u00a0Rep. Adam Schiff,\u00a0the ranking\u00a0member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told CNN that it was \u201chard to imagine\u201d there would be no consequences\u00a0from Netanyahu\u2019s new one-state views. Bibi\u00a0has placed all his chips on the Republican Congress, which has no say over how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,18],"tags":[1784,243,507],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16833,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815\/revisions\/16833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}