{"id":2574,"date":"2021-01-14T16:14:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T21:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2021-01-14T16:14:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T21:14:47","slug":"obamas-memoir-misleads-on-israels-history-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2021\/01\/obamas-memoir-misleads-on-israels-history-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Memoir Misleads on Israel&#8217;s History. Here&#8217;s why."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In<a href=\"https:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/story\/opinion\/2021\/01\/10\/obamas-memoir-misleads-israels-history-heres-why\/6601951002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> their article in Delaware Online<\/a>, Rabbi Michael Beals and UTJ Viewpoints Contributor Rabbi Steven Saks discuss President Barack Obama\u2019s bestseller, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KgfAJ9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Promised Land<\/a>,&#8221; and its portrayal of the Arab-Israeli conflict.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As the Biden administration will eventually tackle Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, basing it on a foundation of accurate background information is essential. In the spirit of pursuing peace, we provide these important corrections to chapter 25 of President Barack Obama\u2019s bestseller, &#8220;A Promised Land,&#8221; addressing Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">This response is\u00a0<strong><em>not<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0being written from a partisan point of view. The aim is simply to correct important inaccuracies which should be troubling to all, regardless of where one stands on the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/story\/opinion\/2021\/01\/10\/obamas-memoir-misleads-israels-history-heres-why\/6601951002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.delawareonline.com\/story\/opinion\/2021\/01\/10\/obamas-memoir-misleads-israels-history-heres-why\/6601951002\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Biden administration will eventually tackle Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, basing it on a foundation of accurate background information is essential. In the spirit of pursuing peace, we provide these important corrections to chapter 25 of President Barack Obama\u2019s bestseller, &#8220;A Promised Land,&#8221; addressing Israel.<\/p>\n<p>This response is\u00a0not\u00a0being written from a partisan point of view. The aim is simply to correct important inaccuracies which should be troubling to all, regardless of where one stands on the political spectrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,78,127],"tags":[],"coauthors":[125],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","category-modern-judaism","category-politics"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}