Netanyahu is facing in Israel three judicial investigations for corruption. He is indicted but has not been convicted, due to a jurisdictional exception while he wages « his » war in Gaza. During his address to Knesset, Trump went off script and urged President Issac Herzog to pardon his popular friend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is standing trial on three corruption charges.
I’ve got an idea, Mr. President, why not grant him a pardon*? This passage was not planned in my speech […] but I like this gentleman […]. Like it or not, he was one of the greatest presidents** in times of war. Then, addressing to Netanyahu, Trump added : You are a very popular man, and you know why? Because you know how to win.
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana of Prime Minister’s Likud party decided not to invite Israel’s Supreme Court president or the attorney general – who indicted Netanyahou long ago – to President Donald Trump’s address. One saved them the humiliation of such enormous stupidity as this speech.
Where else can you imagine seeing a American president behave as if he were at home, other than in Israel, the true 51st state of the United States, the same capo di capi than in Washington was in front talking for the Second Reactionary International. One might think that this speech is an attack on Israeli sovereignty. But in no way, Israel has no sovereignty; it is a protectorate of the United States. And only a few Israelis still have a bit of patriotic self-esteem to be scandalized by Trump’s speech. The others give to Trump the Vaseline tube to get fucked.
All the new mafia imperialism of the era is found in these few sentences. You can realize to what extent what governs the relations between Nations today, has changed in nature. With Donald Trump we are in an era of savagery of the powerful, an era of arrogance.
*Benyamin Nétanyahou has never been president, but Prime Minister. **It’s impossible to pardon indicted, only the convicted are pardonnable. Two factuals mistakes in therre phrases of the tracks. Next one, Mr President, please stick to your part. your age is starting to play tricks on you.