It remains unclear whether Benjamin Netanyahu, the first sitting prime minister of Israel to be indicted on criminal charges, will be forced to quit.
A defiant Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday rejected calls for him to resign and lashed out at numerous perceived enemies as a criminal corruption indictment against him plunged his political future, and that of his country, into pandemonium.
Coming at the conclusion of three years of investigations, the indictment announced Thursday by Atty. Gen. Avichai Mandelblit was long awaited. Nonetheless, it landed like a bombshell.The charges, which carry a potential jail term of up to 16 years, allege that Netanyahu accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts from business figures, including luxury items such as cigars and Champagne.
Some Israelis were alarmed at Netanyahu’s call for the public to take to the streets, believing it would only inflame tensions. The country has been on edge for much of the year, with Netanyahu serving as a caretaker prime minister since the first failed election process in March, with renewed violence in the Palestinian Gaza Strip and growing regional influence of Iran.The U.S.
Using rhetoric similar to that of Trump, who faces possible impeachment also on bribery charges, and his defenders, Netanyahu described the indictments handed down by Mandelblit as an “attempted coup” and a witch hunt, demanding an “investigation of the investigators.”
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