{"id":1606,"date":"2017-02-16T16:38:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2017-02-16T16:38:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:38:57","slug":"israeli-palestinian-ongoing-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1606","title":{"rendered":"Israeli \/ Palestinian ongoing issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday.\u00a0 Trump, obviously, is not the first president to try and tackle the Israeli\/Palestinian issue.\u00a0 In the book: Off the Record (The Private papers of Harry S. Truman)<\/em>, I was reading yesterday that:\u00a0 “In the autumn of 1945, Truman began to come under intense pressure from American and European Zionists who wanted what then was known as Palestine opened wide to Jewish immigration.”\u00a0 The book went on to note that Jewish people were languishing in displacement camps and Arabs argued that since they were made homeless by the Hitler\/German persecution, it was Germany’s responsibility to provide a place for them…\u00a0 Reciprocally now, many Arabs (Syrians, Iraqis…) are in displacement camps hoping others will take them in.\u00a0 We, all of us, should have been doing that — all along.\u00a0 Taking them in.\u00a0 God is giving us this tremendous spiritual opportunity to help.\u00a0 And if we don’t?\u00a0 Well, many of us may then be ‘languishing’ in a very hot displacement camp ourselves — for eternity.\u00a0 Just sayin’.\u00a0 “But Lord, when did we see you homeless?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday.\u00a0 Trump, obviously, is not the first president to try and tackle the Israeli\/Palestinian issue.\u00a0 In the book: Off the Record (The Private papers of Harry S. Truman), I was reading …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}