{"id":3367,"date":"2019-03-20T17:41:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T17:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=3367"},"modified":"2019-03-20T17:41:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T17:41:49","slug":"pompeos-visit-to-israel-seen-as-election-boost-to-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2019\/03\/20\/pompeos-visit-to-israel-seen-as-election-boost-to-netanyahu\/","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo\u2019s Visit to Israel Seen as Election Boost to Netanyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><br>By Felicia Schwartz <\/em>Updated March 20, 2019 1:13 p.m. ET<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TEL AVIV\u2014U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will seek to use a visit to Jerusalem to push back against Iran\u2019s encroachment on Israel\u2019s borders, an intervention seen as offering support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just weeks before national elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Pompeo arrived in Israel on Wednesday to discuss threats the country faces from Iran and its allies, ahead of April 9 elections in which Mr. Netanyahu is touting his security credentials to win a fifth term&#8230;.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Felicia Schwartz Updated March 20, 2019 1:13 p.m. ET TEL AVIV\u2014U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will seek to use a visit to Jerusalem to push back against Iran\u2019s encroachment on Israel\u2019s borders, an intervention seen as offering support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just weeks before national elections. Mr. Pompeo arrived in Israel on Wednesday to discuss threats&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2019\/03\/20\/pompeos-visit-to-israel-seen-as-election-boost-to-netanyahu\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3368,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions\/3368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}