{"id":366380,"date":"2018-06-22T18:25:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T17:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/strange-bedfellows\/"},"modified":"2018-06-22T18:25:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T17:25:49","slug":"strange-bedfellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/strange-bedfellows\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Bedfellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_103122\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103122\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/41884929311_c91bc1c11b_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/41884929311_c91bc1c11b_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/41884929311_c91bc1c11b_z-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Misery is not the only thing that \u201cacquaints a man with strange bedfellows,\u201d as Shakespeare put it; geopolitical machinations and international animosities do as well.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, the not-so-secret marriage of convenience \u2013 or is it only an affair? \u2014 between Israel, on the one hand, and Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf monarchies, on the other, is mind-boggling.<\/p>\n<p>Hovering over that strange liaison is, of course, Donald Trump\u2019s America.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, neither he nor anyone else in his administration got those strange bedfellows together.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, there was no need for a matchmaker, a <em>shadchan<\/em>, at all.\u00a0 The unholy alliance has been in the works for a long time, instigated and sustained by malefactors on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>All Trump and his minions have done is back the process a thousand percent.\u00a0 Obama and his predecessors backed it too, but only a hundred percent.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone deserves credit \u2013 or blame \u2013 it would be Benjamin Netanyahu.\u00a0 That awful man \u201cmeddles\u201d and \u201ccolludes\u201d in countless ways.<\/p>\n<p>He has been hard at work for years playing \u201cthe enemy of my enemy is my friend\u201d card, easing the way for the Middle East\u2019s two neighborhood bullies to join forces.\u00a0 He has been instrumental too in securing the empire\u2019s blessing.<\/p>\n<p>The sad fact, though, is that with the Israeli settler movement calling the shots in both Tel Aviv and Washington, there hasn\u2019t been much lately for him or anyone else to do.<\/p>\n<p>The Israel lobby&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/06\/22\/strange-bedfellows-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem | CC BY 2.0 Misery is not the only thing that \u201cacquaints a man with strange bedfellows,\u201d as Shakespeare put it; geopolitical machinations and international animosities do as well. Even so, the not-so-secret marriage of convenience \u2013 or is it only an affair? \u2014 between Israel, on the one hand, [&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-366380","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\/366380","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=366380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}