{"id":129,"date":"2009-02-23T11:58:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T11:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/?page_id=129"},"modified":"2014-04-14T08:46:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T07:46:51","slug":"my-purpose","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/my-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"My Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweet_button73\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/my-purpose\/\" data-text=\"My Purpose - Ray Cook - As I See It\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-lang=\"en\" data-via=\"tweetbutton\"  data-related=\"coderplus:Wordpress Tips and more.\"><\/a><\/div><blockquote><p>The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; John F Kennedy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My purpose in writing this blog is to examine several issues concerning the State of Israel<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0What I see as disproportionate and uninformed media attacks on Israel, misreporting and bias<\/p>\n<p>2. International moves to delegitimise Israel<\/p>\n<p>3. Israel and its relation with the Diaspora<\/p>\n<p>4. Israel, anti-Zionism and its close relative anti-Semitism<\/p>\n<p>5. The Israel\/Palestine conflict<\/p>\n<p>6. Any other issues that interest me with regard to Israel<\/p>\n<p>I am a Zionist. That means I believe in a homeland for the Jewish People in their ancestral land of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>I support a form of a two state solution in Israel\/Palestine but only when Israel&#8217;s security can be guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>I am concerned for the welfare of all the people of the region and fervently desire that both sides live in peace and co-operation with mutual advantage and respect.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and by the way, in case you are wondering, yes, I am Jewish.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thomas L Friedman, journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweet_button73\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/my-purpose\/\" data-text=\"My Purpose - Ray Cook - As I See It\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-lang=\"en\" data-via=\"tweetbutton\"  data-related=\"coderplus:Wordpress Tips and more.\"><\/a><\/div><p>The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic &#8211; John F Kennedy My purpose in writing this blog is to examine several issues concerning the State of Israel 1.\u00a0What I see as disproportionate and uninformed media attacks on Israel, misreporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-129","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4211,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129\/revisions\/4211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}