{"id":197700,"date":"2008-01-16T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/16\/israel-coalition-government-falters\/"},"modified":"2008-01-16T23:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T04:17:00","slug":"israel-coalition-government-falters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/16\/israel-coalition-government-falters\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Coalition Government Falters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jcQAlzgWoaezQ4Fjb5WsxzosARDwD8U70H000\">Avigdor Lieberman&#8217;s Yisrael Beiteinu&#8217;s has pulled out the government<\/a>, and subtracting its 11 lawmakers from the government leaves a narrow majority of 67 in the 120-seat Knesset.<\/p>\n<p>They objected to talks with the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>This also means that the Ultra-Orthodox Shas party, with 12 members, is all that prevents a new round of elections, that Olmert would almost certainly lose, and Shas has said that it would leave the government if any compromise is made over Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve gotta love Israeli politics.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">this<\/span> sort of crap is why proportional representation sucks wet farts from dead pigeons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avigdor Lieberman&#8217;s Yisrael Beiteinu&#8217;s has pulled out the government, and subtracting its 11 lawmakers from the government leaves a narrow majority of 67 in the 120-seat Knesset. They objected to talks with the Palestinians. This also means that the Ultra-Orthodox Shas party, with 12 members, is all that prevents a new round of elections, that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1159,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-israel","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197700"}],"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=197700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}