{"id":4141,"date":"2018-09-11T22:39:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T22:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4141"},"modified":"2018-09-11T22:39:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T22:39:26","slug":"is-georgia-in-love-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/09\/11\/is-georgia-in-love-with-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"IS GEORGIA IN LOVE WITH ISRAEL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/Georgia.-Photo-Emerging-Europe1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4142\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/Georgia.-Photo-Emerging-Europe1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/Georgia.-Photo-Emerging-Europe1.jpg 990w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/Georgia.-Photo-Emerging-Europe1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/Georgia.-Photo-Emerging-Europe1-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/Georgia.-Photo-Emerging-Europe1-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/Georgia.-Photo-Emerging-Europe1-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/Georgia.-Photo-Emerging-Europe1-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Middle East Eye<\/p>\n<p>By Belen Fernandez<\/p>\n<p>In August, Georgia Today &#8211; an English-language newspaper of the eponymous former Soviet republic &#8211; featured a verbose analysis headlined \u201cGeorgia as \u2018the Israel of the Caucasus\u2019 &#8211; a Concept Worth Considering?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following numerous twists and turns &#8211; including a quote from late Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, noting that \u201cif we have to [choose] between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we would rather be alive and have the bad image\u201d &#8211; the article appears to conclude that there are many prospects for \u201cfurther developing the Georgia-US bilateral relationships\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Successful development, we are left to assume, would ideally propel the wannabe NATO member into a special relationship akin to that enjoyed between the US and its favourite Israeli partner in crime. In other words, the whole \u201cIsrael of the Caucasus\u201d concept is definitely worth considering.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/columns\/georgia-love-israel-1821600881<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Middle East Eye By Belen Fernandez In August, Georgia Today &#8211; an English-language newspaper of the eponymous former Soviet republic &#8211; featured a verbose analysis headlined \u201cGeorgia as \u2018the Israel of the Caucasus\u2019 &#8211; a Concept Worth Considering?\u201d Following numerous twists and turns &#8211; including a quote from late Israeli prime minister Golda Meir,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/09\/11\/is-georgia-in-love-with-israel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IS GEORGIA IN LOVE WITH ISRAEL?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4143,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions\/4143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}