Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concluded his first day of testimony in his corruption trial on Tuesday (he is expected to testify again tomorrow afternoon) with a long tirade against the Israeli media, which he accused of being “biased, one-sided and unprofessional.”
"The gap between the media and any kind of ethics is a chasm," said the prime minister, who is accused, among other things, of doing favors for media executives to receive favorable coverage.
The president testified on Tuesday for the first time in the corruption trial that has been ongoing since 2020, accused in three separate cases of the crimes of tax fraud, bribery and breach of trust.
During the hearing, both supporters and opponents of the prime minister gathered outside the courthouse in Tel Aviv, although everyone had left by the end of the testimony.
During the session, Netanyahu appeared confident and even asked the judge to extend her statement to conclude his speech on the absurdity of the accusations about his attempts to influence the press.
Earlier, regarding the lavish gifts, such as cigars and champagne, that he allegedly received from Arnon Milchan, an Israeli businessman, between 2007 and 2016, in exchange for favors related to business interests and obtaining visas, Netanyahu explained: “I hate champagne, I can’t drink it.”
On cigars he added: “Sometimes I sit down with a cigar, but I can’t smoke it all at once because I do it between meetings.”
Netanyahu's defense has repeatedly asked, but without success, for the president to reduce his three weekly appearances of six hours each in the coming weeks, in the midst of the war against Hamas in Gaza and with a temporary truce with Hezbollah in Lebanon hanging by a thread.
The trial marks a milestone in Israel's history, This is the first time that a prime minister in office has testified as a defendant in a criminal trial. In previous cases, his predecessors resigned rather than face legal proceedings.
Netanyahu is accused of bribery, fraud and breach of trust for events that took place between 2007 and 2017, charges that have polarized Israeli society. While the opposition demands his resignation, his political allies have refused to leave his side.
Agencies contributed to this Aurora article.
The political persecution has already lasted more than 7 years, the opposition, seditious and coup-mongering, in its desperate desire, in its desperate greedy ambition to recover the benefits and sinecures that they enjoyed in the sad, painful and disastrous past when they were in government, causing most of the present and past problems and misfortunes suffered by the People and the Jewish State of Israel.
It uses self-elected, compromised, biased, partial prosecutors and judges, who are involved in subversion, mutiny, conspiracy and social agitation and are allied with media sponsored and financed by the radical anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist left!!!!
AM ISRAEL HAI !!!
ISRAEL HAI !!!!
AND ……. EVEN SO THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO PROVE ANYTHING DURING THESE 7 YEARS OF POLITICAL PERSECUTION, NOT EVEN USING AND ABUSING FALSE SUPPOSED WITNESSES WHO WERE/ARE THREATENED AND/OR BOUGHT, PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY TORTURED, VILELY USED BEFORE POLITICIZED SELF-ELECTED VENAL JUDGES AND WHO, EVEN SO, HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO PROVE ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING OF THEIR FALSE ACCUSATIONS, BUT THEY CONTINUE TO INSISTING ON DISTURBING AND AGITATING JEWISH SOCIETY IN ISRAEL WITH THE PURPOSE OF OVERTHROWING THE LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT ELECTED BY THE SERIOUS, HONEST, DECENT AND RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE WHO CAST, THROUGH THEIR VOTE, THEIR SUPPORT FOR THEM. NATANYAHU AND HIS POLITICAL PARTNERS !!!
AM ISRAEL HAI !!!
ISRAEL HAI !!!
IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THEY WANT TO OVERTHROW NETANYAH'S JUSTICE, AND HIS ENEMIES, ESPECIALLY THOSE INSIDE, ARE THIRSTY FOR HATE AND REVENGE
If God had not wanted Benjamin Nathanyau to be Prime Minister, he simply would never have been there. He is there because God wants him that way, period. Those who oppose him are used by the enemy Satan.
We see how it is today in Israel, Benjamin is a man of God, Israel has to stop being evil otherwise the terrorists will not let them have peace because of their evil. Israel, stop being evil so that something worse does not happen to you.
If the prosecutors cannot prove anything, they should be punished criminally, otherwise a very dark message would be sent to society.
We can politically harass anyone, if you agree with us, there are no consequences.
That the press takes you to trial is the most absurd thing in these times, they did everything to DONALD TRUMP, even trying to kill him, these Socialists dressed as lambs, they want to do the same to BIBI NETANYAHU, it is the same pattern, the same idea and they even allowed drones to attack their house to kill them. HOW FAR DO THESE FALSE JEWS WANT TO GO, WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT THE FRONT DURING THE HOLOCAUST, showing their chests.