{"id":800,"date":"2014-11-24T16:01:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T16:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=800"},"modified":"2014-11-24T16:01:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T16:01:32","slug":"2014-11-24-the-jews-only-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=800","title":{"rendered":"The Jews-Only State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All par for the course in &#8220;the only democracy in the Middle East&#8221; (from <em>The Guardian<\/em>):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A controversial bill that officially defines Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people has been approved by cabinet despite warnings that the move risks undermining the country\u2019s democratic character.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents, including some cabinet ministers, said the new legislation defined reserved \u201cnational rights\u201d for Jews only and not for its minorities, and rights groups condemned it as racist.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which is intended to become part of Israel\u2019s basic laws, would recognise Israel\u2019s Jewish character, institutionalise Jewish law as an inspiration for legislation and delist Arabic as a second official language.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All par for the course in &#8220;the only democracy in the Middle East&#8221; (from The Guardian): A controversial bill that officially defines Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people has been approved by cabinet despite warnings that the move risks undermining the country\u2019s democratic character. Opponents, including some cabinet ministers, said the new legislation &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=800\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Jews-Only State<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[168],"tags":[59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}