{"id":177322,"date":"2019-10-21T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/21\/yes-3\/"},"modified":"2019-10-21T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T22:27:00","slug":"yes-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/21\/yes-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netanyahu has failed to form a government, so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/netanyahu-fails-to-form-new-israeli-government-rival-gantz-poised-to-take-up-the-challenge\/2019\/10\/21\/7a4574d4-e27e-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html\">Benny Gantz gets 28 days to attempt to form a coalition<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday gave up his struggle to form a governing coalition after last month\u2019s dead-heat national election, opening a possible path to power for his rival, former army chief of staff Benny Gantz.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Israeli President Reuven Rivlin immediately said he would give Gantz a chance to assemble a majority of lawmakers, making him the first person other than Netanyahu authorized to form a government in more than a decade. Gantz will have 28 days to do what Netanyahu could not: entice at least 61 members of the Israeli parliament, or Knesset, to support his bid.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThis is new: This broadens the political imagination to include the possibility that someone not named Netanyahu could be the prime minister of the state of Israel,\u201d said Mordechai Kremnitzer, a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. \u201cBut I think Gantz will also find it extremely difficult to shape a coalition.\u201d <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Netanyahu warned in the video that Gantz could assume power with the support of Israeli Arab lawmakers, whose party emerged as the third-largest in the Knesset, and that those parliamentarians \u201cencourage terror and oppose Israel\u2019s existence.\u201d <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Negotiators for the two parties met in several sessions without progress. Gantz, after an initial meeting with the prime minister, spurned numerous invitations from Netanyahu to negotiate one-on-one. Gantz insisted that his rival was less interested in compromise than in ensuring he would serve first in any power-sharing rotation. Netanyahu, who could be indicted as early as November, was more keen on \u201cimmunity\u201d than unity, Gantz said. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Netanyahu is a crook and a hate-monger.<\/p>\n<p>Any coalition should not involve Netanyahu in any capacity.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s an unspeakably bad person, and he has made Israel a far worse place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netanyahu has failed to form a government, so Benny Gantz gets 28 days to attempt to form a coalition: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday gave up his struggle to form a governing coalition after last month\u2019s dead-heat national election, opening a possible path to power for his rival, former army chief of staff &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,375,488,374],"class_list":["post-177322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-elections","tag-israel","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}