{"id":20158,"date":"2026-02-22T12:27:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/mashreghnews_en\/85323640619518229132\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:57:39","slug":"85323640619518229132","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/mashreghnews_en\/85323640619518229132\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition to Netanyahu&#8217;s Leadership Intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports from Israeli media, Bennett recently stated, &#8220;We will form a unity government in a manner similar to what existed in 1984 between Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir. We must return to work and break the factional mindset.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized, &#8220;We fight together inside a tank in Rafah, then return home, and we cannot govern Israel with those who oppose us.&#8221;&#8221;Avigdor Lieberman,&#8221; head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, wrote on his X account on Thursday, &#8220;Under no circumstances should we join Netanyahu.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yair Lapid,&#8221; the opposition leader, shared Lieberman&#8217;s post, adding, &#8220;I agree.&#8221;On the other hand, &#8220;Gadi Eisenkot,&#8221; a Knesset member and former Chief of Staff, stated, &#8220;Anyone who held a position on October 7, including government members and especially Prime Minister Netanyahu, is unfit and lacks the qualifications for government positions.&#8221;&#8221;Yair Golan&#8221; leader of the Democratic Party and Knesset member also criticized Bennett&#8217;s request asserting &#8220;Israel needs reforms. Democrats as a party with a strong liberal democratic base will not participate in a government that includes those responsible for the failures of October 7 division and the systematic destruction of the rule of law.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criticism mounts against Naftali Bennett, former Prime Minister of Israel, following his call for a broad unity government reminiscent of the 1984 rotating cabinet between Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}