{"id":175200,"date":"2015-08-22T16:16:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T16:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=175200"},"modified":"2015-08-22T16:16:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T16:16:10","slug":"us-acts-client-state-israel-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-acts-client-state-israel-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"US acts as client state of Israel: Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>The United States is politically subordinate to Israel and captive to the influential Zionist lobbying groups advocating pro-Israel policies to Congress and the White House, an American activist in Maryland says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US acts more like a client state rather than a superpower; the hold that Israel has over our members of Congress is inappropriate and dangerous,\u201d Myles Hoenig told Press TV on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is no secret that President Obama has shown his disgust over this but has not taken the leadership necessary to put a halt to it,\u201d Hoenig said.<\/p>\n<p>The American activist said Congress has proven \u201csubservient to Israel\u201d by allowing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before US lawmakers to oppose US foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Obama has not effectively countered this \u201ctreasonous\u201d act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough we see the American people, and Jewish Americans in particular, moving away from unquestioning support for Israel, Congress and the president are captive to its lobby in the US,\u201d Hoenig further noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael demands dominance, not equanimity amongst its neighbors,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is a nuclear power and yet refuses to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/08\/22\/425891\/US-Israel-client-state-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is politically subordinate to Israel and captive to the influential Zionist lobbying groups advocating pro-Israel policies to Congress and the White House, an American activist in Maryland says. \u201cThe US acts more like a client state rather than a superpower; the hold that Israel has over our members of Congress is inappropriate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-175200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}