{"id":72961,"date":"2019-10-23T11:14:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T11:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=72961"},"modified":"2019-10-23T11:14:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T11:14:40","slug":"israel-pm%e2%80%89benjamin-netanyahu-says-cannot-form-new-govt-will-allow-opponent-benny-grantz-to-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/israel-pm%e2%80%89benjamin-netanyahu-says-cannot-form-new-govt-will-allow-opponent-benny-grantz-to-try\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel PM\u2009Benjamin Netanyahu says cannot form new govt, will allow opponent Benny Grantz to try"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed Israel\u2019s president Monday he could not form a new government following deadlocked September elections, making way for his opponent Benny Gantz to try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision was an important defeat for Netanyahu as he seeks to continue his tenure as Israel\u2019s longest-serving prime minister, but it does not mean the end of those efforts since he still has various cards to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rivlin has vowed to do all he can to prevent yet another election a third since April but the possibility remains that the stalemate could eventually trigger it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Netanyahu has been battling the threat to his political survival on two fronts, also facing the possibility of corruption charges in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA short time ago I informed the president that I was handing back my mandate to try to form a government,\u201d.The prime minister blamed Gantz for refusing to negotiate on Netanyahu\u2019s preferred terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed Israel\u2019s president Monday he could not form a new government following deadlocked September elections, making way for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72961","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\/72961","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=72961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72963,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72961\/revisions\/72963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}