{"id":358,"date":"2009-05-18T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=358"},"modified":"2009-05-18T16:10:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T20:10:43","slug":"bibi-and-barack-have-first-face-to-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/05\/18\/bibi-and-barack-have-first-face-to-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Bibi and Barack have first face-to-face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is expected to put a priority on Iran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions when he <a title=\"meets today\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/politicalintelligence\/2009\/05\/obama_focuses_o_3.html\" target=\"_blank\">meets today<\/a> with President Obama, an indication that Palestinian statehood, backed by the U.S. but not endorsed by Netanyahu, can wait.\u00a0 College of Communication Professor <a title=\"Robert Zelnick\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/robert_zelnick.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Zelnick<\/a>, a former long-time ABC News correspondent in the Middle East, can offer some perspective on where this might be heading.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The Palestinian statehood question is a red herring.\u00a0 The two real issues are: How is Iran to be prevented from producing nuclear weapons?\u00a0 And, how is Hamas to be dealt\u00a0with in relationship to the peace process?\u00a0 On these matters there may be real differences of approach.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Contact Robert Zelnick, 617-353-5007, <a href=\"mailto:bzelnick@bu.edu\">bzelnick@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is expected to put a priority on Iran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions when he meets today with President Obama, an indication that Palestinian statehood, backed by the U.S. but not endorsed by Netanyahu, can wait.\u00a0 College of Communication Professor Robert Zelnick, a former long-time ABC News correspondent in the Middle East, can offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[540,672,969],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}