{"id":8731,"date":"2010-12-03T08:14:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T15:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=8731"},"modified":"2010-12-05T22:30:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T05:30:35","slug":"us-ambassador-to-israel-james-b-cunninghams-message-to-the-people-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=8731","title":{"rendered":"US Ambassador to Israel James B. Cunningham&#8217;s Message to the People of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/image001.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8732\" title=\"image001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/image001.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/image001.png 773w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/image001-290x300.png 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On behalf of President Obama, Secretary Clinton and the People of the United States, I would like to extend our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of all of those who have died as a result of the terrible forest fire in northern Israel. The United States is working closely with Israel to provide all assistance possible to fight the fire, and prepare for long term recovery needs.\u00a0 The people of the United States stand with you.\u00a0 As President Obama said yesterday, \u201cThat\u2019s what friends do for each other.\u201d<br \/>\nUSAID\u2019s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance is arranging the purchase and delivery of\u00a0 flame retardant chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. European Command has made 20,000 liters of fire suppressant chemical available.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. will provide fire mapping to help local Israeli responders get the most accurate picture of the extent and force of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>We are prepared to assist with further aircraft resources, in addition to the generous response of other nations, if these aircraft can arrive from the U. S. in time to be effective.<\/p>\n<p>We have been in touch with the U.S. Forest Service and Jewish National Fund to develop an early assessment of the economic costs of the blaze and to determine what long term assistance may be needed.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>Press release<\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of President Obama, Secretary Clinton and the People of the United States, I would like to extend our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of all of those who have died as a result of the terrible forest fire in northern Israel. The United States is working closely with Israel to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}