{"id":402896,"date":"2019-04-11T13:33:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israels-netanyahu-set-to-win-fifth-term-after-vow-to-annex-west-bank\/"},"modified":"2019-04-11T13:33:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:33:16","slug":"israels-netanyahu-set-to-win-fifth-term-after-vow-to-annex-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israels-netanyahu-set-to-win-fifth-term-after-vow-to-annex-west-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Netanyahu Set to Win Fifth Term After Vow to Annex West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">JUAN<\/span><span> <\/span>GONZ\u00c1LEZ:<\/strong><span> <\/span>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be on the verge of securing a record fifth term in office as votes continue to be counted from Tuesday\u2019s election in Israel. Last night, Netanyahu and his top challenger, ex-military chief Benny Gantz, both claimed victory in the tight race. With most of the votes counted, Netanyahu\u2019s Likud party and Gantz\u2019s newly formed Blue and White party both secured 35 seats in the Knesset, but Netanyahu has a clearer path to forming a coalition government with the help of his right-wing allies. On Tuesday night, Netanyahu addressed supporters, who repeatedly chanted \u201cBibi, king of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">PRIME<\/span><span> <\/span><span class=\"caps\">MINISTER<\/span><span> <\/span><span class=\"caps\">BENJAMIN<\/span><span> <\/span><span class=\"caps\">NETANYAHU<\/span>:<\/strong><span> <\/span>[translated] It is a night of colossal victory. Colossal. I am very moved that the people of Israel put their trust in me again, for the fifth time \u2014 a greater trust, even. I intend to quickly finish the work in order to form a national stable government.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">AMY<\/span><span> <\/span><span class=\"caps\">GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong><span> <\/span>Tuesday\u2019s election came just days after Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in defiance of international law, and a week after Netanyahu thanked President Trump for recognizing Israel\u2019s sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights. Netanyahu ran for re-election despite facing possible criminal indictments in three corruption cases. Netanyahu\u2019s chief rival was Benny Gantz, a former chief of staff of Israel Defense Forces. On Tuesday, he, too, claimed victory.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">BENNY<\/span><span> <\/span><span class=\"caps\">GANTZ<\/span>:<\/strong><span> <\/span>It\u2019s a historic event, actually, never happened in Israel before. And we\u2019ll take it from here. It\u2019s just the first night. We\u2019ll see the real results. I\u2019m sure and confident that we can do it. We will continue. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">JUAN<\/span><span> <\/span>GONZ\u00c1LEZ:<\/strong><span> <\/span>Many Palestinians living in Israel boycotted Tuesday\u2019s election. Netayahu\u2019s Likud party was also accused of voter intimidation after placing 1,200 hidden cameras at polling stations in Arab neighborhoods inside Israel. Palestinian chief negotiator&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/israels-netanyahu-set-to-win-fifth-term-after-vow-to-annex-west-bank\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUAN GONZ\u00c1LEZ: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be on the verge of securing a record fifth term in office as votes continue to be counted from Tuesday\u2019s election in Israel. Last night, Netanyahu and his top challenger, ex-military chief Benny Gantz, both claimed victory in the tight race. With most of the votes [&hellip;]<\/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-402896","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\/402896","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}