{"id":31054,"date":"2019-01-29T15:24:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31054"},"modified":"2019-01-29T15:24:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:24:39","slug":"ex-israeli-army-chief-launches-campaign-to-replace-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31054","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Israeli army chief launches campaign to replace Netanyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1443836\/middle-east\" readability=\"40\">\n<p>\nTEL AVIV, Israel: Retired Israeli military chief Benny Gantz is launching his long-awaited political campaign, seeking to position himself as the first serious challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s decade-long rule.<br \/>Gantz is flaunting a tough military pedigree and emerging in the polls as Netanyahu&#8217;s top rival. This highlights how security rules supreme in the minds of most Israeli voters.<br \/>The tall, telegenic ex-general with salty hair is still untarnished by partisan politics and has been riding a wave of popularity, even while saying little and presenting a vague ideological platform.<br \/>But the shine could quickly wear off following his speech later on Tuesday, when he is expected to finally lay out his agenda. Netanyahu&#8217;s allies are sure to brand Gantz as a &#8220;leftist&#8221; should he show any signs of moderation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEL AVIV, Israel: Retired Israeli military chief Benny Gantz is launching his long-awaited political campaign, seeking to position himself as the first serious challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s decade-long rule.Gantz is flaunting a tough military pedigree and emerging in the polls as Netanyahu&#8217;s top rival. This highlights how security rules supreme in the minds&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}