{"id":5279,"date":"2009-03-05T18:05:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T17:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=5279"},"modified":"2009-03-05T18:05:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T17:05:15","slug":"obama-siding-with-bush-over-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/contributions\/obama-siding-with-bush-over-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama &#8216;siding with Bush over Israel&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"attribute-short\">\n<p>IRAN&#8217;S supreme leader accused US President Barack Obama on Wednesday of following the same path as the Bush administration with his &#8220;unconditional&#8221; support for Israel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"attribute-long\">\n<p>Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Mr Obama had spoken of change during his campaign but supported Israel&#8217;s three-week offensive against the Gaza Strip earlier this year that killed almost 1,500 Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Mr Obama mostly deferred to Mr Bush when asked for his position, saying that there could only be one US president.<\/p>\n<p>But he supported Israel&#8217;s right to defend itself from Palestinian rocket attacks during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking in Jerusalem on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton underlined Washington&#8217;s &#8220;unshakeable support for Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a Gaza solidarity conference in Tehran, Mr Khamenei said: &#8220;The new US president speaks of unconditional commitment to defend Israel&#8217;s security. This means the same wrong path as the Bush administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said that Israeli leaders should be put on trial for the Gaza offensive, which ended with a shaky ceasefire in mid-January.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s judiciary has asked Interpol to issue arrest warrants for 15 Israeli officials in connection with the onslaught.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright Morning Star<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRAN&#8217;S supreme leader accused US President Barack Obama on Wednesday of following the same path as the Bush administration with his &#8220;unconditional&#8221; support for Israel. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Mr Obama had spoken of change during his campaign but supported Israel&#8217;s three-week offensive against the Gaza Strip earlier this year that killed almost 1,500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1616],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-5279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-contributions","7":"category-usa-news","8":"tag-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279","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=5279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}