{"id":294755,"date":"2017-02-14T08:05:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T07:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-rabbis-want-potential-envoy-to-israel-rejected\/"},"modified":"2017-02-14T08:05:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T07:05:09","slug":"us-rabbis-want-potential-envoy-to-israel-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-rabbis-want-potential-envoy-to-israel-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"US rabbis want potential envoy to Israel rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Hundreds of American rabbis have signed a letter against the appointment of David Friedman as the United States\u2019 ambassador to Israel, describing his ideology as \u201cextreme.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The open letter, which was released on Monday, has been signed by as many as 600 American rabbis and cantors, <em>The Times of Israel<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The signatories took issue with Friedman\u2019s fervent and oft-repeated support for Israel\u2019s settlement activities in the West Bank and his strong opposition to the \u201ctwo-state solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMr. Friedman\u2019s pro-\u00adsettler positions and opposition to the two-\u00adstate solution are in conflict with our views and the majority of American Jews who see settlement expansion as an obstacle to peace and who strongly support a two\u00ad-state solution,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They called his views not representative of the American society, and his general behavior unbefitting of an envoy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn ambassador is charged with representing our entire nation,\u201d they&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/02\/14\/510460\/US-rabbis-letter-rejection-David-Friedman-Israel-envoy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of American rabbis have signed a letter against the appointment of David Friedman as the United States\u2019 ambassador to Israel, describing his ideology as \u201cextreme.\u201d The open letter, which was released on Monday, has been signed by as many as 600 American rabbis and cantors, The Times of Israel reported. The signatories took issue [&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-294755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294755","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=294755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}