{"id":402807,"date":"2019-04-10T01:17:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T00:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/this-israeli-election-is-between-the-right-wing-and-the-even-more-right-wing-2\/"},"modified":"2019-04-10T01:17:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T00:17:31","slug":"this-israeli-election-is-between-the-right-wing-and-the-even-more-right-wing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/this-israeli-election-is-between-the-right-wing-and-the-even-more-right-wing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This Israeli Election is Between the Right Wing and the Even More Right Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Israel\u2019s election campaign, now in its last days, must be the first in which a sitting Israeli prime minister has sought to win over voters by boasting about how much he insulted a president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>One of the last campaign videos by Benjamin Netanyahu spliced together media clips of US analysts voicing disbelief back in 2011 at the Israeli prime minister\u2019s public humiliation of Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>The ad not only described Netanyahu as \u201clecturing\u201d Obama, but showed him visibly angering the US president by berating him for chasing \u201cillusions\u201d in his pursuit of peace talks with the Palestinians. It closed with Likud\u2019s campaign slogan: \u201cNetanyahu. Right-wing. Strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu\u2019s electioneering has rarely been subtle. But after Israel\u2019s attorney general announced during the campaign that the prime minister faced corruption indictments, Netanyahu has had every incentive to plumb new depths.<\/p>\n<p>His officials have stated that his main rival, Benny Gantz, a general he once appointed as military chief of staff, is mentally unstable. One Likud video showed Gantz\u2019s head emerging from a cuckoo clock.<\/p>\n<p>The character assassination has been aided by the leaking of a recording of an off-guard Gantz saying that, if he could have done so, Netanyahu would have had him killed.<\/p>\n<p>Netanayhu\u2019s team also exploited, and possibly leaked, a claim that Gantz\u2019s mobile phone was hacked by Iran. \u201cIf he couldn\u2019t protect his own phone, how will he protect our&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/04\/this-israeli-election-is-between-the-right-wing-and-the-even-more-right-wing\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s election campaign, now in its last days, must be the first in which a sitting Israeli prime minister has sought to win over voters by boasting about how much he insulted a president of the United States. One of the last campaign videos by Benjamin Netanyahu spliced together media clips of US analysts voicing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}