An Israeli paper speculates that the administration of US President Donald Trump could be meddling in Israel’s elections to help secure a win for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In a report on Tuesday, The Jerusalem Post raised the suspicion after Trump shared a photo directly from Netanyahu’s Instagram account, which showed an election poster made by Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party of the two shaking hands and smiling.

The advertisement captioned “Netanyahu: In a different league” prompted similar criticism after first showing up in Tel Aviv.

It has now turned up elsewhere across streets in the Israeli-occupied territories, said Arutz Sheva on its website.



The Jerusalem Post further pointed to the large numbers of likes and comments under Trump’s share, saying this raised “concerns about election interference.”

The network went as far as saying Likud had “recruited” Trump to promote its election chances.

Late last month, it was reported that the party had released a promotional video glorifying the two politicians’ relationship by boasting about Trump’s relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to the holy occupied city of Jerusalem al-Quds last May.

The embassy relocation flew in the face of internationally-recognized Palestinian demands that the occupied city’s eastern part serve as the capital of their future state.

It also circumvented a United Nations General Assembly resolution that had called on Trump to retract its recognition of al-Quds as Israel’s “capital,” which he had announced in late 2017.

Likud’s video begins with a text on the screen stating, “They said it’s impossible,” referring to the embassy transfer.

It also features Trump’s announcement of the relocation and Netanyahu’s statement that “the US embassy needs to be here, in Jerusalem (al-Quds).”

Trump began contributing to Netanyahu’s political powerbase in 2013, when he appeared in a video made by a Likud promoter, voicing all-out verbal support for the premier. “

So vote for Benjamin, terrific guy, terrific leader, great for Israel,” Trump had said in the footage.

Netanyahu faces four corruption cases, and reports say Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has reached a decision to indict him prior to April’s elections on bribery charges. He has been the target of regular protests, including in front of Mandelblit’s residence in northern Israel, in favor of his resignation.

PressTV-Attorney General expected to charge PM Netanyahu with bribery: reports

PressTV-Attorney General expected to charge PM Netanyahu with bribery: reports

Reports say the Israeli Attorney General has reached a decision to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges in a bribery case.

His coalition announced snap polls last December after Likud failed to garner the necessary support to pass contested legislation aimed at drafting ultra-Orthodox Israelis into the military.

Yair Lapid, who chairs the opposition Yesh Atid party, has warned that if Netanyahu emerged victorious, he would immediately pass a bill that would help him evade prosecution, The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday.

Lapid said the premier would use an election victory as a mandate to justify closing the investigations.

“He wants power because power gives him the ability to save himself. From his perspective, if he won’t be in power, he’ll end up in jail. So he wants to win and pass the laws that will stop him from being investigated,” the opposition politician said.

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3 COMMENTS

  1. No, you got all that wrong I’m afraid. Netanyahu and the Likud are very different to the rest of Israeli politics for the simple reason that since the mid 90s they have been little more than a proxy front for the Russian Mafia. When Gorbachev introduced his Glasnost and Perestroika reforms in the late 80s, he also opened the Soviet Gulags and out came a mass of the worst, most ruthless hardcore criminals in the world, many of them of Jewish descent. They took advantage of their Jewishness to migrate to Israel and within a few short years, had control of the Likud and from the 1995 elections, the government. They then destroyed their opposition by assassinating Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, and thereby killing the peace process with the Palestinians. The Clintons never worked for the Bushes, nor was there a drug smuggling operation running out of Mena, that is all a load of anti-Clinton black propaganda dreamed up by a bunch of bought and paid for media stooges working for Sheldon Adelson, Ronald Lauder and the rest of the pro-Israel oligarchs.

  2. Justice would be served if Bibi were thrown into the general population of the Israeli prison camp for Palestinians while awaiting trial….

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