{"id":291,"date":"2012-08-05T17:16:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T17:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/islaminamerica\/?p=291"},"modified":"2012-08-05T17:16:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T17:16:55","slug":"mitt-romney-and-the-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2012\/08\/05\/mitt-romney-and-the-palestinians\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney and the Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The familiar Republican tactic of demonizing victims? &#8220;Romney\u2019s statement that Israelis\u2019 cultural superiority explains their economic success \u2014 and, by extension, that the \u201cbackward\u201d Palestinians are to blame for their failures \u2014 isn\u2019t particularly surprising.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>True? What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Read the article here: <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/08\/05\/mitt_romneys_culture_war\/\"target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney\u2019s \u201cculture\u201d war<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The familiar Republican tactic of demonizing victims? &#8220;Romney\u2019s statement that Israelis\u2019 cultural superiority explains their economic success \u2014 and, by extension, that the \u201cbackward\u201d Palestinians are to blame for their failures \u2014 isn\u2019t particularly surprising.&#8221; True? What do you think? Read the article here: Mitt Romney\u2019s \u201cculture\u201d war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,62],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-romney"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mitt Romney and the Palestinians - Islam In America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2012\/08\/05\/mitt-romney-and-the-palestinians\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mitt Romney and the Palestinians - Islam In America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The familiar Republican tactic of demonizing victims? &#8220;Romney\u2019s statement that Israelis\u2019 cultural superiority explains their economic success \u2014 and, by extension, that the \u201cbackward\u201d Palestinians are to blame for their failures \u2014 isn\u2019t particularly surprising.&#8221; True? 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