{"id":8209,"date":"2010-09-24T07:51:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T15:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8209"},"modified":"2010-09-24T08:17:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:17:57","slug":"did-israel-boycott-obamas-un-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/24\/did-israel-boycott-obamas-un-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Israel Boycott Obama’s UN Speech?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While most of the attention in yesterday’s UN speeches was centered around the US delegation’s faux-impromptu walkout on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s talk<\/a>, President Barack Obama’s own talk had a notably absent delegation, the Israeli one.<\/p>\n

Officially the Israeli government denies that this was an organized boycott and insists the absence of their delegation was planned well in advance<\/a>, and was related to the relatively minor Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The weeklong holiday does not appear to have traditionally meant Israeli officially snubbing major international events, however.<\/p>\n

Moreover President Obama’s speech sparked no small level of outrage among top Israeli officials, and a number of Israel’s ruling coalition MPs made public comments in condemnation of the president and the speech late last night<\/a>. This is only adding fuel to the belief by many that the snub was about the speech and not the holiday.<\/p>\n

AIPAC spokesmen angrily denied this belief, however, and insisted that it was a “malicious” lie against Israel<\/a>. The empty chairs seem to remain an issue for many, however.<\/p>\n

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While most of the attention in yesterday’s UN speeches was centered around the US delegation’s faux-impromptu walkout on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s talk, President Barack Obama’s own talk had a notably absent delegation, the Israeli one. Officially the Israeli government denies that this was an organized boycott and insists the absence of their delegation was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"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\/8209","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8215,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions\/8215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8209"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}