{"id":144,"date":"2006-09-08T19:24:35","date_gmt":"2006-09-09T03:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/politics\/sovereign-states-in-the-middle-east"},"modified":"2006-09-08T19:27:06","modified_gmt":"2006-09-09T03:27:06","slug":"sovereign-states-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Sovereign States in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every nation in the Middle East&#8212; Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia&#8212; dates as a sovereign state from 60 to 70 years ago.  &#8220;The only difference is that Israel has made a go of it.&#8221; This fact about the Middle East that was pointed out by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/index2.cfm?edit_id=24\">Mark Steyn<\/a> in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/\">National Review<\/a>.\u00a0 Draw your own conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every nation in the Middle East&#8212; Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia&#8212; dates as a sovereign state from 60 to 70 years ago. &#8220;The only difference is that Israel has made a go of it.&#8221; This fact about the Middle East that was pointed out by Mark Steyn in National Review.\u00a0 Draw your own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-2k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}