{"id":13924,"date":"2026-03-31T20:51:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/a-historic-obligation-ekathimerini-com\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:51:28","slug":"a-historic-obligation-ekathimerini-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/a-historic-obligation-ekathimerini-com\/","title":{"rendered":"A historic obligation | eKathimerini.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1299663\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Greece cannot afford to be indifferent to the fate of Christian populations in the Middle East. The need to act is not only dictated by some vague historical and moral obligation. It is also dictated by the geopolitical necessity of preserving its cultural footholds in these societies.<\/p>\n<p>These footholds continue to underpin and justify Greece\u2019s distinctive, bridge-building role in the Eastern Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/opinion\/1299663\/a-historic-obligation\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece cannot afford to be indifferent to the fate of Christian populations in the Middle East. The need to act is not only dictated by some vague historical and moral obligation. It is also dictated by the geopolitical necessity of preserving its cultural footholds in these societies. These footholds continue to underpin and justify Greece\u2019s &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"A historic obligation | eKathimerini.com\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/a-historic-obligation-ekathimerini-com\/#more-13924\" aria-label=\"Read more about A historic obligation | eKathimerini.com\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}