Benjamin Netanyahu corruption trial delayed on diplomatic and security grounds | Benjamin Netanyahu
A Israeli court canceled this week’s hearings at Benjamin Netanyahu’s long -standing corruption hearing and accepted a request for diplomatic and security reasons classified by the Prime Minister.
The Jerusalem Regional Court, Netanyahu’s decision published by the Likud Party online, “After the statements given,” We accept the request at this stage and we cancel at this stage “hearing for this week,” he said.
The decision, Israel’s spy agency MOSSAD and Military Intelligence Chief Netanyahu new reasons provided by the hearing justified to cancel the trials, he said.
Last week, Donald comes after Trump asking for the case to be fired. In the statements on the social media, the US President said that the hearing could intervene in Netanyahu’s ability to participate in negotiations with Palestinian militant group Hamas and Iran, and that Netanyahu would thank Netanyahu with a message for the US for ongoing prosecution.
In a social media mission, Trump described the case against the Israeli Prime Minister as a “witch hunt” and said that the hearing should be “immediately canceled, should be given to a great hero”.
In 2019, Netanyahu accused of bribery, fraud and violation of trust – they all denied. A democratic right -wing leader wanted to overthrow a leftist witch hunting, which he wanted to overthrow.
In one of the cases, he and his wife Sara are accused of accepting more than 260,000 dollars of luxury goods, such as cigars, jewels and champagne, from billionaires in exchange for political goodness.
In the other two, Netanyahu is accused of trying to negotiate more positively than two Israeli media organizations. The Prime Minister has requested more than one postponement for the hearing since it started in May 2020.
Netanyahu’s lawyers asked the court to excuse the court for the next two weeks, thus focusing on security problems after the ceasefire with Iran, and among the ongoing wars in Gaza, where Israeli hostages were held.
They presented the Prime Minister’s program to the court to demonstrate the national need to devote the national time and energy of the Prime Minister to political, national and security issues at hand ”.
The court initially rejected the lawyers’ request, but in Sunday’s decision, he said that he changed his decision after hearing the allegations from the Prime Minister and other senior officials.
Israel refused to comment on Trump’s mission.
Israel’s opposition leader Yair Lapid said last week Trump should not intervene in a judiciary in an independent country ”.
Trump said that Netanyahu had negotiated an agreement with Hamas, but both leaders did not provide details, and the authorities from both sides soon expressed skepticism about the cease -fire.
On Friday, the Republican President told reporters that he believed that the ceasefire was close.
With Reuters and Agency France-Presse
