Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit of succumbing to “pressure from the left and the media” in making his announcement prior to elections.
The two leaders reportedly also put behind a diplomatic row that was created following the accidental downing of a Russian plane by Syrian forces following an Israeli airstrike in October.
A decision to indict the prime minister on corruption charges would “endanger democracy and freedom of the press,” Alan Dershowitz writes in an open letter to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, urging him to “consider the dangerous implications.”
In Moscow, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Iran’s activates in Syria.
Using social media to make a rare break into the politically charged debate over upcoming Israeli elections, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the American Jewish Committee took political positions on the inclusion of the Otzma Yehudit Party in a technical bloc with the Jewish Home Party.
The two men sought to promote themselves as centrist politicians seeking to unite the country after a decade of right-wing leadership.
In a turbulent race to seal alliances and set lists before the Thursday-night deadline heading up to the April 9 elections, Israeli political parties Yesh Atid and Israel Resilience announced that they would run together in a bid to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Israeli prime minister also spoke of diplomatic inroads that Israel has been making around the world, but also in the immediate region near Arab countries and Africa.
“I risked my life, time after time for the country,” prime minister says after Israel Resilience Party leader Benny Gantz inexplicably decides to attack the prime minister’s army service, of all things • Gantz announces party ticket, seeks possible merger with Yesh Atid.
As right-wing parties in the Knesset seek to unite ahead of Israel’s upcoming elections in April, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu postponed a planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Yusuf Bin Alawi said what has been an apparent warming of relations between the two is “a peaceful process to find a settlement for the Palestinian cause that guarantees their rights and the interests of all.”
Deputy head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps political bureau Yadollah Javani said the Jewish state would suffer if Amrica struck Iran.
