{"id":16582,"date":"2018-08-05T12:53:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T16:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=16582"},"modified":"2018-08-05T12:53:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T16:53:29","slug":"cory-bookers-lame-excuse-after-holding-sign-critical-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/08\/cory-bookers-lame-excuse-after-holding-sign-critical-of-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Cory Booker\u2019s lame excuse after holding sign critical of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/08\/080418-cory-booker-feature.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1200&#038;w=980' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Perhaps someone should ask him directly what his stance is, rather than just berate him for being &#8220;critical of Israel&#8221;. There are many reasons to be critical of Israeli policies, but there&#8217;s absolutely no crime in striving for a world without walls and closed borders. Palestine and Mexico are just two places where the opposite is way too true, and divisions are being bolstered at the expense of innocent, good people.<br \/>\nI say kudos to Cory Booker.<\/p>\n<p>The Article &#8216;Cory Booker\u2019s lame excuse after holding sign critical of Israel&#8217; originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/08\/04\/cory-bookers-lame-excuse-after-holding-sign-critical-of-israel\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/08\/04\/cory-bookers-lame-excuse-after-holding-sign-critical-of-israel\/<\/a><br \/>\nJamie&#8217;s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps someone should ask him directly what his stance is, rather than just berate him for being &#8220;critical of Israel&#8221;. There are many reasons to be critical of Israeli policies, but there&#8217;s absolutely no crime in striving for a world without walls and closed borders. Palestine and Mexico are just two places where the opposite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[582,586,590,589,565,587,588,585,591,456],"tags":[593,597,596,96,598,594,595,592,523,33],"class_list":["post-16582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-editorial-2","category-imho","category-imo","category-jamiegray","category-moregray","category-myopinion","category-opinion-3","category-sharedlink","category-jamie-gray","tag-editorial","tag-imho-blogger","tag-imo","tag-jamiegray","tag-link","tag-moregray","tag-myopinion","tag-opinion","tag-blog","tag-jamie-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17195,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/smart-speakers-hit-critical-mass-in-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":16582,"position":0},"title":"Smart speakers hit critical mass in 2018","date":"December 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Smart speakers sound like a great idea...until Alexa's AI decides to kill you. 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