{"id":279791,"date":"2026-09-06T02:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T02:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/279791\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T02:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T02:59:09","slug":"israels-election-cycle-reveals-a-country-untethered-from-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/279791\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Election Cycle Reveals a Country Untethered From Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-subtitle\">This election should reckon with October 7 and the devastation in Gaza and Lebanon. An election cycle that avoids important issues foreshadows what will happen once it&#8217;s over<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">The talking heads are all aflutter. When exactly did the prime minister get the phone call early on October 7, 2023? When did he leave his home, and when, to the second, did he reach his destination? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This election should reckon with October 7 and the devastation in Gaza and Lebanon. An election cycle that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[10923,41,496,34,37,30318,2742,8750,93,4029,8221],"class_list":["post-279791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-avigdor-lieberman","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-gaza","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israel-elections-2026","tag-israeli-politics","tag-itamar-ben-gvir","tag-lebanon","tag-naftali-bennett","tag-october-7"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117221861769906713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}