{"id":59736,"date":"2012-07-28T09:53:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T13:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=59736"},"modified":"2012-07-28T09:58:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T13:58:06","slug":"romney-continues-charm-offensive-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/breaking-news\/romney-continues-charm-offensive-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Continues Charm Offensive In Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM &#8212; Mitt Romney landed in Israel today on his private campaign jet, once again going on the offensive with his charms.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_59737\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59737\" style=\"width: 247px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/275+web-romney-isreal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/275+web-romney-isreal.jpg?resize=257%2C193&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"275+web-romney-isreal\" width=\"257\" height=\"193\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59737\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mitt Romney arrives in Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;You guys sure are surrounded by a lot of enemies,&#8221; he told Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister. &#8220;You sure better be ready, I know personally they all want to kick your ass. During my secret briefing with MI6 yesterday&#8230;&#8221; He then cut himself short.<\/p>\n<p>Romney then reflected thoughtfully for a moment and asked, &#8220;Why did you pick this place to put your country? You could have put it down in Mexico.&#8221; Realizing his gaffe, he added, &#8220;Where all you would have to worry about are a bunch of drug gangs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then asked the prime minister, &#8220;Why are all of you people wearing those little hats? What good are they? They don&#8217;t block the Sun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, capping off his first hour in Israel, during a photo-op at a local delicatessen, the presumptive presidential candidate ordered a ham and cheese sandwich. The room fell silent. He seemed to not understand why. As he was whisked away by handlers, he gave the deli owner a copy of the <em>Book of Mormon<\/em> and suggested he might enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM &#8212; Mitt Romney landed in Israel today on his private campaign jet, once again going on the offensive with his charms. &#8220;You guys sure are surrounded by a lot of enemies,&#8221; he told Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister. &#8220;You sure better be ready, I know personally they all want to kick your ass. During &#8230; <a title=\"Romney Continues Charm Offensive In Israel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/breaking-news\/romney-continues-charm-offensive-in-israel\/\" aria-label=\"More on Romney Continues Charm Offensive In Israel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1743],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}