{"id":166,"date":"2001-09-18T13:43:42","date_gmt":"2001-09-18T18:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2001-09-18T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2001-09-18T18:43:42","slug":"israeli-foreign-minister-shimon-peres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2001\/WORLD\/meast\/09\/18\/arafat.cease\/index.html\" title=\"CNN.com - Cease-fires ordered in Mideast - September 18, 2001\">told CNN<\/a>: &#8220;The world is facing an unbelievable danger and we have to put aside secondary skirmishes.&#8221;\n<\/div>\n<p>Why is it that only Isreali politicians tell it like it is?&nbsp; Here in America we swim in our political leaders&#8217; soothing rhetoric &#8212; we elect them for their ability to tell us what we want to hear.&nbsp;  There is a nobel purpose in attempts to minimize fear and terror.&nbsp; But let us not be deluded, as any rational person is wont to do in this situation; we are indeed facing an &#8220;unbelievable danger.&#8221;.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd from the same article:\n<\/p>\n<div>Arafat ordered his security commanders not to fire on Israeli targets even when under fire from Israeli forces &#8212; the first time he had told his police officers not to shoot back in self-defense if attacked. <\/div>\n<p>\nThis scares me.&nbsp;  Enemies ally themselves &#8212; without first resolving their enmity &#8212; only under mortal threat.&nbsp;  Isreal and Palestine are indistinguishable to a re-entry vehicle, and Jerusalem lies within minutes of an Afghani <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdiss.org\/bmintro.htm\" title=\"missile info pages\">ballistic missile<\/a>.&nbsp;  I can&#8217;t believe I am even saying these things, it is all so unthinkable.&nbsp;  But it is also visciously real.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;God bless us, every one..&nbsp; &#8211;Tiny Tim, from Charles Dickens&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fidnet.com\/~dap1955\/dickens\/christmas.html\" title=\"www.fidnet.com\/~dap1955\/dickens\/christmas.html\"><i>A Christmas Carol<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told CNN: &#8220;The world is facing an unbelievable danger and we have to put aside secondary skirmishes.&#8221; Why is it that only Isreali politicians tell it like it is?&nbsp; Here in America we swim in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=166\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[281,269,275,276,280,278,225,279,282,277],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-a-christmas-carol","tag-america","tag-arafat","tag-charles-dickens","tag-cnn","tag-foreign-minister","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem","tag-palestine","tag-shimon-peres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}