{"id":4736,"date":"2009-05-05T06:35:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T11:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4736"},"modified":"2009-05-05T06:35:46","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T11:35:46","slug":"keep-your-friends-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4736","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Friends Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young Israelis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3710300,00.html\">Ydon&#8217;t trust Barack Obama as far as they can throw him<\/a>, according to an Israeli public opinion poll.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This poll has revealed that Israelis make a distinction between the United States and President Obama and his policies. They have less fondness for him than they have for the US, and display a certain degree of mistrust in him,&#8221; the professor said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gilboa said the poll largely resembled a similar survey carried out in 2007 during former President George Bush&#8217;s tenure. Only 38% of the respondents in the new poll said they believe that Obama&#8217;s attitude towards <a class=\"bluelink\" onmouseover=\"this.href=unescape(this.href)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3284752,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Israel<\/a> is a friendly one, compared to 73% in the 2007 poll regarding Bush.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good to know that our staunchest ally is nervous about Obama&#8217;s commitment to them, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Israelis Ydon&#8217;t trust Barack Obama as far as they can throw him, according to an Israeli public opinion poll. &#8220;This poll has revealed that Israelis make a distinction between the United States and President Obama and his policies. They have less fondness for him than they have for the US, and display a certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}