{"id":647599,"date":"2026-10-15T22:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/647599\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T22:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:26:13","slug":"non-stick-netanyahu-will-surging-scandals-make-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/647599\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Stick Netanyahu: Will Surging Scandals Make a Difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair was first nicknamed &#8220;Teflon Tony&#8221; twenty years ago, thanks to his seemingly uncanny, but actually highly calculated, ability to emerge unscathed from scandal. His pioneering media spin machine, his fresh centrist energy after John Major&#8217;s drab tenure and Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s endless reign and the weakness of a befuddled opposition all contributed. The shine was only tarnished, two decades on, by Blair&#8217;s enthusiastic mobilization for the Iraq war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair was first nicknamed &#8220;Teflon Tony&#8221; twenty years ago, thanks to his seemingly uncanny,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4662,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-647599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-haaretz-today-newsletter","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647599","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=647599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}