{"id":63593,"date":"2026-10-27T13:45:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/what-does-israels-election-mean-for-gaza-and-the-wider-world\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T13:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:45:47","slug":"what-does-israels-election-mean-for-gaza-and-the-wider-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/what-does-israels-election-mean-for-gaza-and-the-wider-world\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Israel&#8217;s election mean for Gaza and the wider world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Israelis are voting in what many view as one of the most pivotal elections in the country&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Polling published on Friday suggests incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu is in a near neck-and-neck race with former military chief Gadi Eisenkot to become prime minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But where do the two rivals stand when it comes to foreign policy and how might their actions differ with regards to Gaza and the occupied West Bank?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC&#8217;s diplomatic correspondent James Landale reports from Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3j47l4kdez4o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">More on Israel&#8217;s pivotal election.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/ck240dg5n4gjo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israelis are voting in what many view as one of the most pivotal elections in the country&#8217;s history. Polling published on Friday suggests incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu is in a near neck-and-neck race with former military chief Gadi Eisenkot to become prime minister. But where do the two rivals stand when it comes to foreign policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63595,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63593\/revisions\/63595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}