{"id":2141,"date":"2009-09-24T22:24:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T22:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2009-09-25T15:58:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T15:58:37","slug":"in_the_some_thi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2141","title":{"rendered":"In The &#8220;Some Things Speak For Themselves&#8221; Department&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAn Egyptian painter, who as Minister of Culture defended himself against charges of being soft on Israel by claiming that he&#8217;d &#8220;personally burn any Israeli book he found in Egypt&#8217;s famed Library of Alexandria,&#8221; was defeated as a candidate for head of UNESCO.<\/p>\n<p>His response?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;It was clear by the end of the competition that there was a conspiracy against me,&#8221; Hosny told reporters at the airport upon his return from Paris.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a group of the world&#8217;s Jews who had a major influence in the elections who were a serious threat to Egypt taking this position,&#8221; he said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And Obama wonders why it is that the Middle East is at an impasse??<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accused of anti-Semitism, a candidate loses a global position &#8211; and blames it on the Jews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}