{"id":51423,"date":"2018-12-31T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=51423"},"modified":"2018-12-31T11:28:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:28:10","slug":"israeli-hard-line-ministers-to-form-new-party-ahead-of-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/israeli-hard-line-ministers-to-form-new-party-ahead-of-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli hard line ministers to form new party ahead of vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two senior Israeli Cabinet ministers announced on Saturday that they are forming a new party to run in April elections, hoping to present a hard-line alternative to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s Likud Party.<\/p>\n<p>The Jewish Home is a hard-line nationalist party that is especially popular with religious voters and West Bank settlers.Bennett and Shaked hope that their new movement, called &#8220;The New Right,&#8221; will have a broader appeal to both religious and secular voters.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett has been the leader of the Jewish Home since 2012, and Shaked is one of the country&#8217;s most popular politicians.But Bennett and Shaked, who are both former aides to Netanyahu, have often been at odds with their former boss.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett, for instance, has called for a much tougher response to Palestinian border protests and rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. He also is an outspoken opponent of Palestinian independence.<\/p>\n<p>At his news conference, Bennett said that Netanyahu takes his religious partners for granted and believes he has them in his &#8220;pocket.&#8221;In early polls, Likud is far ahead of all challengers and appears poised to lead the next government.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two senior Israeli Cabinet ministers announced on Saturday that they are forming a new party to run in April elections, hoping to present a hard-line alternative to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s Likud Party. The Jewish Home is a hard-line nationalist party that is especially popular with religious voters and West Bank settlers.Bennett and Shaked hope [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51425,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51423\/revisions\/51425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}