{"id":112799,"date":"2020-08-14T11:08:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T15:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=112799"},"modified":"2020-09-28T11:45:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T15:45:21","slug":"brindisi-issues-statement-on-israel-united-arab-emirates-peace-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=112799","title":{"rendered":"Brindisi issues statement on Israel-United Arab Emirates peace agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following news of a<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/08\/13\/politics\/israel-united-arab-emirates-normalization-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0historic agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates,<\/a>\u00a0Congressman Anthony Brindisi issued the following statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis deal to normalize diplomatic relations between Israel and the UAE is a major breakthrough that will lead to a more peaceful and stable Middle East. Israel is our strongest ally, and I appreciate our longstanding, bipartisan commitment to them.&nbsp; I am encouraged by Prime Minister Netanyahu and Crown Prince Bin Zayed\u2019s willingness to reach this agreement and am hopeful that others in the region will follow in normalizing relations with Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brindisi, who serves on the House Armed Services Committee, said he is a staunch supporter of a strong U.S.-Israel relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following news of a\u00a0historic agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates,\u00a0Congressman Anthony Brindisi issued the following statement: \u201cThis deal to normalize diplomatic relations between Israel and the UAE is a major breakthrough that will lead to a more peaceful and stable Middle East. Israel is our strongest ally, and I appreciate our longstanding, bipartisan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23811,8],"tags":[27353,25590,27356,27354,27355],"class_list":["post-112799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-top-story","tag-agreement-between-israel-and-the-united-arab-emirates","tag-congressman-anthony-brindisi-democrat-utica-ny","tag-crown-prince-bin-zayed","tag-house-armed-services-committee","tag-prime-minister-netanyahu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-tll","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rep-Anthony-Brindisi-Congress.jpg?fit=220%2C220&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}