{"id":10662,"date":"2019-08-15T17:33:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=10662"},"modified":"2019-08-15T17:33:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:33:28","slug":"hows-them-ole-democracies-goingfellas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=10662","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;s them ole democracies going,fellas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10668 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/trump.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/trump-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/trump-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10669 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/netanyahu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/netanyahu.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/netanyahu-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/netanyahu-768x574.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10670\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TN-300x113.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TN-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TN-768x289.png 768w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TN-1024x385.png 1024w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TN-1200x451.png 1200w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TN.png 1204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\">Following pressure from President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has backtracked on <a class=\"StoryBody__link--10w8x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/israel-allow-reps-omar-tlaib-enter-country-3b8bbea3-022b-46b7-bde2-e32a4f23c3ba.html\">his decision<\/a> to allow Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) to enter the country and is barring the congresswomen over their support for the <a class=\"StoryBody__link--10w8x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2019\/1\/9\/18172826\/bds-law-israel-boycott-states-explained\">BDS movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"Quote__root--fHvPf Quote__plain--kY7a_\"><p>&#8220;Israel has decided \u2014 we won\u2019t enable the members of Congress to enter the country. We won\u2019t allow those who <strong>deny our right to exist<\/strong> in this world to enter Israel. In principle this is a very justified decision.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><cite class=\"QuoteAttribution__root--vrUkY\">\u2014 Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>It should be pointed out emphatically that neither congresswoman ever denied Israel&#8217;s right to exist!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10671\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Court-Painter-the-anti-democracy-boys-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Court-Painter-the-anti-democracy-boys-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Court-Painter-the-anti-democracy-boys-768x620.jpg 768w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Court-Painter-the-anti-democracy-boys.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Following pressure from President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has backtracked on his decision to allow Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) to enter the country and is barring the congresswomen over their support for the BDS movement. &#8220;Israel has decided \u2014 we won\u2019t enable the members of Congress to enter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=10662\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How&#8217;s them ole democracies going,fellas?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10662"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16372,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662\/revisions\/16372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}