{"id":294789,"date":"2026-02-16T23:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/294789\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:50:19","slug":"buying-time-with-empty-talks-israels-just-waiting-for-trump-to-lose-interest-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/294789\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying Time With Empty Talks: Israel&#8217;s Just Waiting for Trump to Lose Interest in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">One can hazard a guess as to why the prime minister assigned the foreign minister, Gideon Sa&#8217;ar, to represent Israel at the Board of Peace meeting this Thursday in Washington. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will enjoy watching his political rival-turned-servant squirm as he tries to avoid a photo with his counterparts from Qatar and Turkey. Netanyahu understands that if he were to go himself, a picture of him next to Hamas&#8217; patrons would be devastating to his election campaign. He prefers that Sa&#8217;ar embarrass himself on the eve of the Likud primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One can hazard a guess as to why the prime minister assigned the foreign minister, Gideon Sa&#8217;ar, to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,54,50,65,85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-294789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-gaza","11":"tag-gideon-saar","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}