{"id":6268,"date":"2010-07-06T12:39:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T17:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6268"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:02:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:02:38","slug":"obama-netanyahu-meet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/07\/06\/obama-netanyahu-meet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama, Netanyahu meet again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6269\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/07\/Obama-and-Netanyahu-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Was2345642\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>With recriminations over Israel&#8217;s blockade of Gaza still erupting, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu <a title=\"met with\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/wire\/sc-dc-0707-obama-netanyahu-web-20100706,0,4085879.story\" target=\"_blank\">met with <\/a>President Obama at the White House for a show of solidarity meant for political audiences in both countries.\u00a0 International relations Professor <a title=\"Augustus Richard Norton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/norton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Augustus Richard Norton<\/a>, a Middle-East specialist and author of &#8220;<em><a title=\"Hezbollah: A Short History\" href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/8363.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hezbollah: A Short History<\/a><\/em>,&#8221; says Netanyahu has been playing the same game with Obama as he did decades ago with President Clinton &#8211; provoke the U.S., then negotiate over petty concessions while demanding U.S. approval.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNo doubt, President Obama understands the Israeli leader&#8217;s game, so we should be watching for evidence of firmness behind the pro forma smiles.\u00a0 Will Obama choose the harder right, or the easier path of political expediency?\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Augustus Richard Norton, 617-353-7808, <a href=\"mailto:arn@bu.edu\">arn@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With recriminations over Israel&#8217;s blockade of Gaza still erupting, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu met with President Obama at the White House for a show of solidarity meant for political audiences in both countries.\u00a0 International relations Professor Augustus Richard Norton, a Middle-East specialist and author of &#8220;Hezbollah: A Short History,&#8221; says Netanyahu has been playing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2526,518,3310],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268"}],"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=6268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6482,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions\/6482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}