Peloni: Since returning to the White House, many have called on Trump to help quash the Lawfare attacks on Netanyahu, and it seems that those calls have not gone unnoticed. Still, what might have been far more useful and far more legitimate than Trump’s call for the Lawfare cases against Netanyahu to be dropped, would have been to disclose the role which the US likely had in supporting or advocating those cases to be formed against Netanyahu over the past decade. Indeed, Israel is a sovereign nation, and it should be left to govern itself, by itself, but having all the facts in hand, along with any documented evidence between Israeli and the US representatives relating to these cases, for example, would be very empowering to the Israeli people, and the Israeli legal system as well. Using the persona of Trump to intervene on Netanyahu’s behalf in these Lawfare cases only serves to entrench what should be seen as being an infringement of Israeli sovereignty.
Avi Abelow
U.S. President Donald Trump caused a stir this morning when he posted a scathing critique of Israel’s legal system, calling the ongoing trial of Prime Minister Netanyahu a “witch hunt” and a “travesty of justice.”
It is important to clarify, that it is not right for the US President to interfere in our internal political affairs. However, this “involvement” is nothing like the involvement of the various Obama and Biden administrations that gave millions of dollars to the opposition in Israel to topple Netanyahu.
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