{"id":216537,"date":"2021-06-25T08:54:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T08:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=207617"},"modified":"2021-06-25T08:54:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T08:54:57","slug":"why-washington-is-fawning-over-israels-new-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/25\/why-washington-is-fawning-over-israels-new-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Washington is Fawning Over Israel\u2019s New Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When former US President Barack Obama used an old clich\u00e9 to denigrate his political opponent, the late US Senator, John McCain, he triggered a political controversy lasting several days. \u201cYou can put lipstick on a pig, but it\u2019s still a pig,\u201d Obama said at a campaign event in 2008. The maxim indicates that superficial changes  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/25\/why-washington-is-fawning-over-israels-new-government\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/25\/why-washington-is-fawning-over-israels-new-government\/\">Why Washington is Fawning Over Israel\u2019s New Government<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/25\/why-washington-is-fawning-over-israels-new-government\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When former US President Barack Obama used an old clich\u00e9 to denigrate his political opponent, the late US Senator, John McCain, he triggered a political controversy lasting several days. \u201cYou can put lipstick on a pig, but it\u2019s still a pig,\u201d Obama said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216710,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216537\/revisions\/216710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}