{"id":132,"date":"2008-05-03T04:45:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T11:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/breasy.com\/israeldefender\/?p=132"},"modified":"2012-05-30T14:35:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T21:35:16","slug":"nothing-to-fear-but-fear-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/2008\/05\/nothing-to-fear-but-fear-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing to fear but fear itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 03, 2008<\/p>\n\n<p>The Editor<br \/>\nThe Jerusalem Post<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n<p>Sir<\/p>\n\n<p>Quoting \u201d\u02dcsenior Israeli defense officials` Post writers Katz, Keinon and Krieger write (Page 1, May 2) that: \u201c\u201d\u00a6 Israel did not support the immediate reopening of the Rafah Crossing, <em>fearing<\/em> it would be used by terrorists to enter and leave the Gaza Strip.\u201d\u009d (My italics.)<\/p>\n\n<p>I doubt very much that the officials expressed their fear because that word means frightened \u201d\u201c and that would be somewhat out of character. I have become increasingly annoyed recently with Post writers who keep writing about Israel<code>s \u201d\u02dcfears<\/code> when \u201d\u02dcconcern<code>, \u201d\u02dcsuspect<\/code>, \u201d\u02dcworry<code>, or \u201d\u02dcbelieve<\/code> etc. would be more to the point.<\/p>\n\n<p>I hope your sub-editors will stop this frightening development.<\/p>\n\n<p>Sincerely<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I have become increasingly annoyed recently with Post writers who keep writing about Israel<code>s \u201d\u02dcfears<\/code> when \u201d\u02dcconcern<code>, \u201d\u02dcsuspect<\/code>, \u201d\u02dcworry<code>, or \u201d\u02dcbelieve<\/code> etc, would be more to the point.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,75,1,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israeldefender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}