{"id":6563,"date":"2009-02-10T19:27:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T00:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6563"},"modified":"2009-02-10T19:27:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T00:27:34","slug":"netanyahu-livni-declare-win-in-israeli-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6563","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu, Livni declare win in Israeli election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By STEVEN GUTKIN, <em>Associated Press<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hLTOn0izKtPNW45Evh3ep8kHPuiAD9691GRG0\">10 February 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;With God&#8217;s help, I will lead the next government,&#8221; Netanyahu told a raucous crowd of cheering supporters chanting his nickname Bibi. &#8220;The national camp, led by the Likud, has won a clear advantage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, Livni took the stage before a crowd of flag-waving supporters and flashed a V-for victory sign. &#8220;Today the people chose Kadima. &#8230; We will form the next government led by Kadima.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, exit polls showed Livni with a slight lead, but strong gains by right-wing parties overall would make it difficult, and perhaps impossible, for Livni to form a government.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>If Livni&#8217;s projected victory holds, it is likely due to a strong showing by ultranationalist candidate Avigdor Lieberman, who appears to have taken a sizable chunk of votes that would have otherwise gone to Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>The partial results gave Lieberman&#8217;s Yisrael Beitenu Party 16 seats, placing it in third place behind Kadima and Likud \u2014 and ahead of Labor, the party that ruled Israel for decades. That gives Lieberman, who based his campaign on denying citizenship to Israeli Arabs he considers disloyal, a key role in coalition building. Livni would almost certainly not be able to form a government without his support.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hLTOn0izKtPNW45Evh3ep8kHPuiAD9691GRG0\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By STEVEN GUTKIN, Associated Press, 10 February 2009 &#8220;With God&#8217;s help, I will lead the next government,&#8221; Netanyahu told a raucous crowd of cheering supporters chanting his nickname Bibi. &#8220;The national camp, led by the Likud, has won a clear &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6563\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1HR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6566,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563\/revisions\/6566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}