{"id":930942,"date":"2022-12-23T06:52:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T06:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=269166"},"modified":"2022-12-23T06:52:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T06:52:50","slug":"thomas-friedman-and-the-myth-of-liberal-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/12\/23\/thomas-friedman-and-the-myth-of-liberal-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Friedman and the Myth of Liberal Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is in the process of putting together an aggressively racist rightwing government under the leadership of the unprincipled Benjamin Netanyahu. This is not the first such repugnant government Israelis have elected. Indeed, at least three prior times in its short history, the Israeli Jewish electorate has chosen ideologically committed fanatics (in those cases, having  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/12\/23\/thomas-friedman-and-the-myth-of-liberal-israel\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/12\/23\/thomas-friedman-and-the-myth-of-liberal-israel\/\">Thomas Friedman and the Myth of Liberal Israel<\/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\/2022\/12\/23\/thomas-friedman-and-the-myth-of-liberal-israel\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is in the process of putting together an aggressively racist rightwing government under the leadership of the unprincipled Benjamin Netanyahu. This is not the first such repugnant government Israelis have elected. Indeed, at least three prior ti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"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\/930942"}],"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\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930943,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930942\/revisions\/930943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}