{"id":285001,"date":"2016-12-16T03:08:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T02:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bond-between-israel-and-us-runs-deep-trump\/"},"modified":"2016-12-16T03:08:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T02:08:59","slug":"bond-between-israel-and-us-runs-deep-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bond-between-israel-and-us-runs-deep-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Bond between Israel and US runs deep: Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President-elect Donald Trump has reiterated his incoming administration\u2019s support for Israel, saying that the \u201cbond between Israel and the United States runs deep.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump made the remarks in a statement his transition team issued on Thursday after the billionaire announced his selection of David Friedman, a close adviser, as the next US ambassador to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will ensure there is no daylight between us when I\u2019m president,\u201d Trump said. &#8220;As the United States\u2019 ambassador to Israel, David Friedman will maintain the special relationship between our two countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, Friedman said, &#8220;I am deeply honored and humbled by the confidence placed in me by President-elect Trump to represent the United State as its Ambassador to Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that he look forward to &#8220;strengthen the bond between our two countries and advance the cause of peace within the region, and look forward to doing this from the US embassy in Israel&#8217;s eternal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/16\/498070\/Bond-between-Israel-US-runs-deep-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President-elect Donald Trump has reiterated his incoming administration\u2019s support for Israel, saying that the \u201cbond between Israel and the United States runs deep.\u201d Trump made the remarks in a statement his transition team issued on Thursday after the billionaire announced his selection of David Friedman, a close adviser, as the next US ambassador to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-285001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285001","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=285001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}