{"id":48431,"date":"2019-09-13T09:07:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T14:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48431"},"modified":"2019-09-13T09:07:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T14:07:34","slug":"netanyahu-israel-might-launch-full-scale-gaza-war-before-the-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48431","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu: Israel Might Launch Full-Scale Gaza War “Before The Elections”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Netanyahu: Israel Might Launch Full-Scale Gaza War “Before The Elections”<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears ready to risk launching a major Middle East war rather than see his chances of re-election to a record fifth term dwindle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desperately trying to shore up more votes ahead of Tuesday\u2019s election by trying to “out-hawk” his opponents in the center-right Blue and White Party, he said Thursday Israel will probably launch a full-scale war on Gaza “before the elections”<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his comments, which came just after returning from Sochi, Russia where he met with\u00a0President Vladimir Putin, Netanyahu\u00a0asserted<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cAn operation in Gaza could happen at any moment, including four days before the elections.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0He immediately followed with the dubious assertion,\u00a0“The date of the elections does not factor [into a decision to go to war].\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Israeli bombing of Gaza, file image.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And the day before he said similarly during an Israeli radio interview that Israel will be left with no choice but to “topple the Hamas regime” <\/strong>should such a military campaign begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of a media blitz five days before the elections, he said<\/a>, \u201cThere probably won\u2019t be a choice but to topple the Hamas regime. Hamas doesn\u2019t exert its sovereignty in the Strip and doesn\u2019t prevent attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, so far it doesn’t appear his hawkish rhetoric is<\/strong> substantially moving the polls<\/strong> <\/a>\u2014 <\/em>unlike past successful appeals to far-right and nationalist sectors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting Tuesday Hamas militants and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) engaged in a small scale exchange of fire after multiple rockets were launched from Gaza, which briefly interrupted a Netanyahu campaign speech in the southern city of Ashdod, where he was rushed off the stage<\/a> amid inbound rocket siren warnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Netanyahu: Israel Might Launch Full-Scale Gaza War “Before The Elections” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears ready to risk launching a major Middle East war rather than see his chances of re-election to a record fifth term dwindle.  Desperately trying to shore up more votes ahead of Tuesday\u2019s election by trying to “out-hawk” his opponents in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3910,6116,1049,522],"class_list":["post-48431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48432,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48431\/revisions\/48432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}