{"id":394678,"date":"2019-01-31T00:49:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T23:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israeli-general-mounts-challenge-to-netanyahu-by-flaunting-gaza-carnage\/"},"modified":"2019-01-31T00:49:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T23:49:28","slug":"israeli-general-mounts-challenge-to-netanyahu-by-flaunting-gaza-carnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israeli-general-mounts-challenge-to-netanyahu-by-flaunting-gaza-carnage\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli General Mounts Challenge to Netanyahu by Flaunting Gaza Carnage\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nazareth<\/em>.<\/p>\n

With April\u2019s elections looming, Benjamin Netanyahu has good reason to fear Benny Gantz, his former army chief. Gantz has launched a new party, named Israeli Resilience, just as the net of corruption indictments is closing around the prime minister.<\/p>\n

Already, at this early stage of campaigning, some 31 per cent of the Israeli public prefer Gantz to head the next government over Netanyahu, who is only months away from becoming the longest-serving leader in Israel\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

Gantz is being feted as the new hope, a chance to change direction after a series of governments under Netanyahu\u2019s leadership have over the past decade shifted Israel ever further to the right.<\/p>\n

Like Israel\u2019s former politician generals, from Yitzhak Rabin to Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon, Gantz is being portrayed \u2013 and portraying himself \u2013 as a battle-hardened warrior, able to make peace from a position of strength.<\/p>\n

Before he had issued a single policy statement, polls showed him winning 15 of the 120 parliamentary seats, a welcome sign for those hoping that a centre-left coalition can triumph this time.<\/p>\n

But the reality of what Gantz stands for \u2013 revealed this week in his first election videos \u2013 is far from reassuring.<\/p>\n

In 2014, he led Israel into its longest and most savage military operation in living memory: 50 days in which the tiny coastal enclave of Gaza was bombarded relentlessly.<\/p>\n

By the end, one of the most densely populated areas on earth \u2013 its two million inhabitants…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nazareth. With April\u2019s elections looming, Benjamin Netanyahu has good reason to fear Benny Gantz, his former army chief. Gantz has launched a new party, named Israeli Resilience, just as the net of corruption indictments is closing around the prime minister. Already, at this early stage of campaigning, some 31 per cent of the Israeli public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}