{"id":199788,"date":"2015-11-13T00:23:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T00:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=199788"},"modified":"2015-11-13T00:24:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T00:24:20","slug":"exposed-israel-largely-controls-us-electoral-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/exposed-israel-largely-controls-us-electoral-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposed: Israel largely controls US electoral process"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>America\u2019s unconditional support for Israel is driven largely by its influence on the US electoral process, a political activist from California\u00a0says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe military assistance and the economic aid and the help that the United States gives in the United Nations to protect Israel with its veto power\u2026 comes largely from domestic politics, not because this benefits the United States,\u201d Paul Larudee, co-founder of the Free Palestine Movement, said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is because it benefits the person who is running for office in the United States and this is because Israel has taken control, to a large degree, of the electoral process and the processes of government,\u201d Larudee told Press TV.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>US and Israeli officials are discussing Tel Aviv\u2019s request of an increase in the overall size of the current military aid package from $3 billion to around $5 billion a year.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met US President Barack Obama for the first time in a year at the White House on Monday, and spent much of their time discussing ways to expand US military assistance to Israel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/11\/12\/437327\/US-Israel-military-aid-Palestine-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s unconditional support for Israel is driven largely by its influence on the US electoral process, a political activist from California\u00a0says. \u201cThe military assistance and the economic aid and the help that the United States gives in the United Nations to protect Israel with its veto power\u2026 comes largely from domestic politics, not because this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-199788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}