{"id":124204,"date":"2023-10-30T12:13:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T16:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124204"},"modified":"2023-10-30T12:14:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T16:14:28","slug":"bloomberg-netanyahus-mr-security-persona-fades-as-rivals-want-him-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124204","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) Netanyahu\u2019s \u2018Mr. Security\u2019 Persona Fades as Rivals Want Him Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the young couple prepare for a night out, the doorbell rings. Outside stands Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, universally known as Bibi. \u201cYou ordered a babysitter?\u201d asks the smiling premier. \u201cYou\u2019re getting a Bibi-sitter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 campaign ad concludes with Netanyahu addressing the camera: \u201cThis election, you decide who can best take care of our children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eight years on, the spot that helped propel Netanyahu to another term in office is being revived on social media, interspersed with chilling footage of the killing of Israeli children by Hamas operatives on Oct. 7.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s become part of an intensifying campaign to hold him accountable and force him from office \u2014 an effort that now includes not only the political opposition but many former associates as well as some former heads of Israel\u2019s security agencies and military intelligence<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-10-30\/netanyahu-s-mr-security-persona-fades-as-rivals-want-him-out\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces an intensifying campaign to force him from office \u2014 with even some former allies turning on him <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l7d6JxpZE4\">https:\/\/t.co\/l7d6JxpZE4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bloomberg (@business) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/business\/status\/1719013052010693040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the young couple prepare for a night out, the doorbell rings. Outside stands Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, universally known as Bibi. \u201cYou ordered a babysitter?\u201d asks the smiling premier. \u201cYou\u2019re getting a Bibi-sitter.\u201d The 2015 campaign ad concludes<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124204\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,565,106,151,567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-israel","category-military-armed-forces","category-politics-in-general","category-the-palestinianisraeli-struggle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124207,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124204\/revisions\/124207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}