{"id":834,"date":"2011-10-20T09:22:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T13:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=834"},"modified":"2011-10-20T09:22:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T13:22:25","slug":"us-pays-18-percent-of-israels-military-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/us-pays-18-percent-of-israels-military-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"US Pays 18 Percent of Israel&#8217;s Military Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/mojo\/2011\/10\/us-pays-18-israels-military-budget\"><img src='http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/idf.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leave it to the Washington Post&#8217;s award-winning national security reporter, Walter Pincus, to put things in perspective. In a new column, Pincus points out a remarkable inequity:\u00a0While the US faces a fiscal crisis and debates the need for defense cuts, it&#8217;s footing the bill for one-fifth of Israel&#8217;s military budget\u2014even as that country cuts its own defense spending to tackle domestic economic ills. You know, the way we always talk about changing our country&#8217;s budget priorities.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/mojo\/2011\/10\/us-pays-18-israels-military-budget\">US Pays 18 Percent of Israel&#8217;s Military Budget | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Leave it to the Washington Post&#8217;s award-winning national security reporter, Walter Pincus, to put things in perspective. In a new column, Pincus points out a remarkable inequity:\u00a0While the US faces a fiscal crisis and debates the need for defense cuts, it&#8217;s footing the bill for one-fifth of Israel&#8217;s military budget\u2014even as that country&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,16,22,9],"tags":[24,508,506,507,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834"}],"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=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}