{"id":11405,"date":"2011-09-23T15:21:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T19:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11405"},"modified":"2011-09-23T15:21:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T19:21:31","slug":"top-10-craziest-un-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11405\/top-10-craziest-un-speeches\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Craziest UN Speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2009\/09\/24\/the_top_10_craziest_things_ever_said_during_a_un_speech?page=0,0\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Foreign Policy<\/em><\/a> offers a Top 10 list of the \u201ccraziest things ever said during a United Nations speech,\u201d to help give context to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/ap\/2011\/09\/23\/general-un-mideast_8697117.html\" target=\"_blank\">today\u2019s request for statehood recognition<\/a> by the Palestinian Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Among the leaders contributing to the list are Russia\u2019s Nikita Khruschev (shoe banging and epithet); Palestine\u2019s Yassir Arafat leading a \u201cZionism = racism\u201d movement; Venezuela\u2019s Hugo Chavez comparing President George W. Bush to Satan; and Iran\u2019s Mahmoud \u00a0Ahmadinejad blaming the South Ossetia war on Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Of the top ten, three include racist criticisms of Israel.\u00a0 If Palestine gets statehood status and speaking privileges, expect that number to rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Policy offers a Top 10 list of the \u201ccraziest things ever said during a United Nations speech,\u201d to help give context to today\u2019s request for statehood recognition by the Palestinian Authority. Among the leaders contributing to the list are Russia\u2019s Nikita Khruschev (shoe banging and epithet); Palestine\u2019s Yassir Arafat leading a \u201cZionism = racism\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,386,387,169,3061],"class_list":["post-11405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-united-nations","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11410,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405\/revisions\/11410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}