Netanyahu ally compares PM’s graft probes to Rabin’s murder

Likud MK and Netanyahu ally Miki Zohar is comparing the ongoing corruption investigations into the prime minister to the 1995 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.

Zohar says the police probes into Netanyahu amount to “political murder,” and says the prime minister is the victim of an attempted putsch.

“Yes, I am comparing Rabin’s murder to what’s being done to the prime minister,” Zohar says in an interview on Radio Haifa. “We are witnessing a political murder which involves political persecution.

“With Rabin, a terrible murderer came, and removed him from office by taking his life, in an undemocratic, despicable way, which landed him in prison for life,” he says. “With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, apart from taking his life, everything is being done to remove him from office, and therefore it’s no less grave in my eyes.”

“Police are biased and not objective,” Zohar adds. “I have a theory that says that a veteran of the [police anti-corruption unit] Lahav 433 is colluding with Yair Lapid to overthrow Netanyahu in a undemocratic way.”