Benjamin Netanyahu
With the right rallying behind the Israeli prime minister and the left-wing opposition calling for his resignation, the political stalemate inflicting the Jewish state has no end in sight.
“I will not allow lies to win,” declared the Israeli prime minister. “I will continue to lead this country, according to the letter of the law.”
His political opponents immediately called for him to resign.
Attacks on the prosecutorial branch of Israel’s justice system are “part of the system of checks and balances,” says Alan Dershowitz, but “should not be acceptable” with regard to the judicial branch.
With lines drawn in the sand by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, all eyes now turn towards the prospect of a third election, currently slated for March 2020.
“Some principles and values can’t be given up,” even if it means going back to elections, says Blue and White leader Benny Gantz.
Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz will sit down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday night with just 26 hours to go before his mandate expires.
“I think we’re seeing the weaponization of criminal justice for political purposes,” U.S. attorney Alan Dershowitz tells JNS. “In Israel, the attorney general is supposed to be outside of politics.”
Blue and White leader Benny Gantz is seeking to form a “historically dangerous” coalition, Israeli premier warns • Gantz: “The emergency is hundreds of missiles being fired at the citizens of the State of Israel.”
The tension with Gaza may have created greater political discord, with Blue and White No. 2 Yair Lapid saying that giving Palestinian Islamic Jihad their demands after they shot more than 450 rockets into Israel means that in the next round, “Hamas cannot sit on the side.”
Arab Joint List lawmakers “sanctify” terrorists’ war crimes; Israel “spares no effort to minimize civilian casualties,” says Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a Knesset address.
Whoever said the adage, “nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests,” appears to have correctly perceived the nature of international relations, especially when it comes to the Jewish state and Russia.
