The Deep State
Prime Minister Netanyahu believes the left is out to get him at any cost. According to reports, a close friend of Netanyahu has said that the Prime Minister believes there is a conspiracy of what he calls the Deep State to oust him from power. This close confident, unnamed in the report, said that Netanyahu has now succeeded in destroying his opposition, dismantling the Blue and White party, and postponed his trial, perhaps until early winter. Now that Blue and White has been broken apart Netanyahu may opt for another round of elections, the 4th, knowing he faces no real opposition. He may then be able to have the Knesset drop the charges against him. Should he not do that, and become deputy-prime minister, he may still be immune from prosecution. Some say Netanyahu is pondering a run for the Presidency, a position that also carries with it immunity from prosecution, although pundits believe the High Court will prohibit him from escaping justice through these means. His close associate said that Netanyahu will use every means at his disposal to avoid jail and stay in power.
Meanwhile, Health Minister Yaacov Litzman has been diagnosed with COVID-19 causing him and much of Israeli's cabinet to go into quarantine. Litzman never told anyone he may have been ill. Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party, once part of Blue and White, along with Meretz have demanded Litzman resign from the Health Ministry. They claim Litzman never took the virus seriously as evidenced by the fact that he continued to go to community prayers near his house in violation of the regulations. Infecting others along the way.
So far, Israel has over 7,000 infected with 39 deaths. The government is now focusing on the ultra-orthodox town of Benei Brak, pop @200,000, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. Nearly 40 % of the population of Benei Brak have been infected. The police, with the help of the army, have closed off the town to incoming and outgoing traffic. 4,500 elderly residents are to be evacuated to hotel-type facilities outside the town where they are to be isolated.
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“In Israel there’s not a democracy, but a deep state,’ PM said to claim
“In Israel there’s not a democracy, but a deep state,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told confidants in recent months, according to a Haaretz report
The remarks have been made by the premier in the context of his upcoming trial in three corruption cases. Netanyahu is reportedly convinced that the justice system is intent on bringing him down.
“They want to see me sitting in jail,” Haaretz quotes the prime minister as having said of officials in the justice system.
