{"id":39117,"date":"2021-08-25T18:19:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T01:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39117"},"modified":"2021-08-25T18:19:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T01:19:07","slug":"secretary-blinkens-meeting-with-israeli-prime-minister-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39117","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Blinken\u2019s Meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>08\/25\/2021 07:46 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett today in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 Secretary Blinken and Prime Minister Bennett emphasized the importance of the U.S.-Israel partnership and discussed regional security issues, including Iran.\u00a0 The Secretary and the Prime Minister underscored our strong bilateral relationship, and the Secretary reiterated the U.S. commitment to Israel\u2019s security. The Secretary also emphasized that Israelis and Palestinians alike deserve equal measures of freedom, prosperity, and dignity, which is important in its own right and as a means to advance prospects for a two-state solution.\u00a0 Secretary Blinken and Prime Minister Bennett agreed on the importance of working toward Israel\u2019s inclusion in the Visa Waiver Program in order to benefit both U.S. citizens and Israeli citizens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08\/25\/2021 07:46 PM EDT &nbsp; Office&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39118,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39117\/revisions\/39118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}