From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Netanyahu confidant says indictment recommendation an effort to oust PM
A Netanyahu confidant, David Amsalem, says police’s recommendation that the prime minister be indicted for bribery is a politically motivated effort to oust him from office.
“This is nothing new. The target was marked two years ago. They have fired dozens of arrows towards him in the hope that one of them will hit it, and after they have turned over every stone, in every corner of the world, the police did everything on order to reach their goal,” Likud MK Amsalem says in a statement.
“According to my understanding, we are talking about an illegitimate process that endangers every democratic country in the world,” he says. “In a democratic country, the government is overturned at the ballot box and not by the army or the police.”
— Raoul Wootliff
The Times of Israel Community.