{"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>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>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>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>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>\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<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","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 opponent Benny Gantz to try. 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 [&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":72962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"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}]}}