{"id":708,"date":"2009-06-02T14:39:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T18:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=708"},"modified":"2009-06-02T14:50:29","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T18:50:29","slug":"obama-and-israeli-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/06\/02\/obama-and-israeli-settlements\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama and Israeli settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Headed to the Middle East, President Obama has played down the differences between his administration and Israel&#8217;s leaders about settlements on the West Bank, which he wants frozen.\u00a0 Journalism Professor <a title=\"Robert Zelnick\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/robert_zelnick.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Zelnick<\/a>, author of &#8220;<a title=\"Israeli Unilateralism: Beyond Gaza\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hooverpress.org\/productdetails.cfm?PC=1234\" target=\"_blank\">Israeli Unilateralism: Beyond Gaza<\/a>&#8221; and former ABC News correspondent, says he expects Obama to hold his ground &#8220;<em>to win the tolerance of Israeli supports in the U.S. for the unpleasantness<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\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>Headed to the Middle East, President Obama has played down the differences between his administration and Israel&#8217;s leaders about settlements on the West Bank, which he wants frozen.\u00a0 Journalism Professor Robert Zelnick, author of &#8220;Israeli Unilateralism: Beyond Gaza&#8221; and former ABC News correspondent, says he expects Obama to hold his ground &#8220;to win the tolerance [&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":[540,672,1087],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708"}],"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=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}