{"id":87093,"date":"2026-11-11T07:10:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T12:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=87093"},"modified":"2026-11-11T07:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T12:10:32","slug":"netanyahu-accused-of-unjustly-smearing-arab-voters-to-hold-on-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=87093","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Netanyahu accused of unjustly smearing Arab voters to hold on to power<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-87094\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-11-at-7.09.32-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"727\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-11-at-7.09.32-AM.png 727w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-11-at-7.09.32-AM-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Benjamin Netanyahu has been accused of using smear tactics to cling to power, after he claimed that Arab Israeli parties had used foreign backing to \u201csteal\u201d Tuesday\u2019s election, in which the prime minister\u2019s coalition lost its parliamentary majority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Netanyahu and his allies called on the internal security service, Shin Bet, to investigate alleged vote buying and other irregularities in Palestinian communities in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/israel\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Israel<\/a>, supposedly funded by foreign money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Gadi Eisenkot, the leader of the main opposition bloc, accused the prime minister and his Likud party of trying to derail the election results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cIt\u2019s already clear that Likud and Netanyahu have embarked on a coordinated, organised campaign seeking to delegitimise the results of the election,\u201d Eisenkot said in a video message.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/29\/israeli-leader-netanyahu-accused-of-using-ugly-smear-tactics-to-cling-to-power\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/29\/israeli-leader-netanyahu-accused-of-using-ugly-smear-tactics-to-cling-to-power<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87095,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87093\/revisions\/87095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}