{"id":2877,"date":"2006-07-24T13:37:22","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T20:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/24\/a-night-on-the-town\/"},"modified":"2006-07-24T13:37:22","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T20:37:22","slug":"a-night-on-the-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/24\/a-night-on-the-town\/","title":{"rendered":"A Night on the Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Bloomberg <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&#038;sid=aSb51nQvdN9Y&#038;refer=worldwide_news\"><font size=\"2\">report<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\">s:<\/font><font size=\"2\">&#8220;The U.S. pledged $30 million in aid to help war-ravaged Lebanon avert a humanitarian crisis as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Israel to confer with leaders after a surprise visit to Beirut. The U.S. will contribute the money to a United Nations relief fund and will also immediately supply 100,000 medical kits, 20,000 blankets and 2,000 plastic sheet rolls, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Welch told reporters traveling with Rice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What a night on the town this is shaping up to be: The Israelis will dine out at the Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Beirut, have a nightcap at Club Syria, camp out at the plush 5-star Iranian Inn \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get the bill. $30 million up front \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and much more as the Israeli rampage continues. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a sweet deal for them, and a rotten deal for us. Hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington-report.org\/archives\/July_2006\/0607016.html\"><font size=\"2\">always<\/font><\/a><\/font><font size=\"2\"> been?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg reports:&#8220;The U.S. pledged $30 million in aid to help war-ravaged Lebanon avert a humanitarian crisis as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Israel to confer with leaders after a surprise visit to Beirut. The U.S. will contribute the money to a United Nations relief fund and will also immediately supply 100,000 medical kits, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}