{"id":288343,"date":"2026-02-12T23:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/288343\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T23:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:25:07","slug":"how-a-tuscan-dog-park-turned-me-into-an-unlikely-defender-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/288343\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Tuscan Dog Park Turned Me Into an Unlikely Defender of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">What do you say about Netanyahu, an employee at a pizzeria on the outskirts of the Tuscan city of Lucca asked me when he heard that I&#8217;m Israeli. The counter was crowded with orders to be picked up, there was a line of clients, but for the young Italian \u2013 a tall guy with a crewcut and not too many tattoos on his arm \u2013 it was important to hear my answer. He stopped everything and waited, his look serious and focused. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What do you say about Netanyahu, an employee at a pizzeria on the outskirts of the Tuscan city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,85,46,1513,954,2971,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-288343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-israel-gaza-war","12":"tag-israeli-politics","13":"tag-italy","14":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}