{"id":387157,"date":"2018-11-30T06:32:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T05:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-israel-has-structural-position-inside-us-government\/"},"modified":"2018-11-30T06:32:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T05:32:08","slug":"presstv-israel-has-structural-position-inside-us-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-israel-has-structural-position-inside-us-government\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018Israel has structural position inside US government\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Pro-Israel forces have a very powerful structural position inside the US government, according to American writer and academic James Petras.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump has said US military forces will stay in the Middle East to ensure the security of its close ally, Israel, days after he suggested that the Zionist regime will have to \u201cleave\u201d the region without Riyadh\u2019s support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have reached a point where we don\u2019t have to stay in the Middle East. One reason to stay is Israel,\u201d Trump said in an exclusive interview with The Washington Post published on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that oil production was no longer a reason to stay in the region as lower oil prices lead to reduced reliance on Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOil is becoming less and less of a reason because we\u2019re producing more oil now than we\u2019ve ever produced. So, you know, all of a sudden it gets to a point where you don\u2019t have to stay there,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst, we have&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/11\/30\/581524\/ProIsrael-forces-have-structural-position-inside-US-government\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Israel forces have a very powerful structural position inside the US government, according to American writer and academic James Petras. President Donald Trump has said US military forces will stay in the Middle East to ensure the security of its close ally, Israel, days after he suggested that the Zionist regime will have to \u201cleave\u201d [&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-387157","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\/387157","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=387157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}