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Eugene

(62,648 posts)
Fri Mar 22, 2019, 05:39 PM Mar 2019

Israeli PM Netanyahu says he will sue political rivals for libel

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS MARCH 22, 2019 / 2:02 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

Israeli PM Netanyahu says he will sue political rivals for libel

Stephen Farrell, Jeffrey Heller
4 MIN READ

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday he would sue two of his main political rivals for libel, claiming that they labeled him a traitor over a graft scandal involving a German submarine deal.

In a video published on his Facebook page, Netanyahu said he instructed his attorneys to take legal action against former armed forces chief Benny Gantz and ex-defense minister Moshe “Bogie” Yaalon.

Both are from the centrist Blue and White party which is seeking to unseat the veteran prime minister in an April 9 election. Opinion polls put Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud and Gantz’s new party neck-and-neck.

In the video, Netanyahu said that through their “labeling of me as a traitor” Gantz, Yaalon and their party colleague Yair Lapid - who cannot be sued because he is a legislator - had committed “a blood libel that must not be ignored”.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics-netanyahu/israeli-pm-netanyahu-says-he-will-sue-political-rivals-for-libel-idUSKCN1R32CB
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Israeli PM Netanyahu says he will sue political rivals for libel (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2019 OP
I wonder if the libel laws apply in Israel as they do here? still_one Mar 2019 #1
sounds desperate.... dhill926 Mar 2019 #2
Like Trump, like Bibi. allgood33 Apr 2019 #3
 

allgood33

(1,584 posts)
3. Like Trump, like Bibi.
Sun Apr 7, 2019, 04:38 AM
Apr 2019

Feeling really ashamed of Israel. The oppressed have become the oppressors. The hated have become the hateful.

None since Rabin have really tried.

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