For Trump and Netanyahu, similar strategies with similar goals

If it is not clear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from Israel believes that he has an ally in his battle against the country’s public prosecutor and its judges and even the head of the local security service, then he explained this on Wednesday evening.

“In America and Israel, when the strong right -wing leader wins in the elections, The Lasefist Deep State wins the weapon of the judicial system to thwart the will of people,” He wrote in a post on social media. “They will not win anywhere! We are standing together.”

The challenging explosion, which is the latest evidence that Mr. Netanyahu and President Trump are delighted with the same playing book to achieve amazingly similar goals: to adapt the judiciary, dismantle the supervision system that puts a check on their authority and discredits the national security security they see against them.

These moves come at a time when Mr. Trump met his policy in the Middle East directly in favor of Mr. Netanyahu, including giving Israeli Prime Minister the freedom to renew the war in Gaza and fired American air strikes against the Houthis in Yemen, a group that is considered an enemy of Israel.

In the fair This week in WashingtonMr. Trump called for the removal of a federal judge who was seeking basic information about his mass deportation efforts.

This week in Jerusalem, the Council of Ministers, Mr. Netanyahu Ronin Bar launchedShin Beit, the equivalent of Israel to the Federal Investigation Office, after the agency began investigations into the prime minister’s assistants. Among other claims, assistants are accused of facilitating secret information and a document leakage to a foreign newspaper. The office of Mr. Netanyahu strongly denied these allegations.

The move of Mr. Netanyahu against the President of Shin Hanhan came weeks after his administration announced plans to shoot at the Public Prosecutor, Galle Baharav Mayra, a non -political judicial official appointed by the previous government that thwarted Mr. Netanyahu by preventing some of his decisions in the legal foundations.

Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Netanyahu seeks to curb the local borders and judicial authorities that, as in the United States, have followed investigations against him or his allies.

Like Mr. Trump, the Israeli Prime Minister faced criminal charges saying that the wrong allegations that were raised by unacceptable bureaucrats. In the case of Mr. Netanyahu, he is leading the trial in a period of years of corruption that requires him to appear before the court several times a month.

Aaron David Miller, a Middle East expert in Carnegie, told international peace. “Trump’s popularity in Israel and Volcan’s mind between Trump and Netanyahu to undermine the independence of the courts, and fight the” wake up “to protect and activate Netanyahu.”

Mr. Miller said that Mr. Netanyahu has long took signals from other authoritarian leaders, such as Prime Minister Victor Urban from Hungary. The Battle of Mr. Netanyahu is preceded by what he calls the “deep state”, the presidency of Mr. Trump.

He was interrogated for the first time by the police about corruption charges in early 2017, weeks before Mr. Trump took office for his first term. When the trial of Mr. Netanyahu began in 2020, he stood on the steps of the court in Jerusalem, accusing the prosecution, the police, and the media founding of a joint attempt to “thwart the will of the people.” He is accused of granting organizational preferences to businessmen and the media in exchange for gifts and favorable news coverage, which he denies.

The Prime Minister’s official attempts to undermine the judiciary began in 2022, when his government brought the coalition legislation aimed at reducing the authority of the Supreme Court and giving the government more control over the appointment of its judges. After the mass protests, the government suspended most of these moves for more than a year.

But Mr. Netanyahu appears to be wrapped after the election of Mr. Trump in November. Since then, his government has reformed the judicial appointments process and pushes the bill through Parliament.

One of the Israeli officials who briefed them on the thinking of Mr. Netanyahu said that the election of Mr. Trump has given the prime minister greater confidence to take provocative steps at home and in the war in Gaza, which escalated this week after the collapse of the ceasefire deal in which the media was brokered earlier this year. The official spoke on the condition that his identity is not disclosed.

For his part, Mr. Trump found a common issue with other non -liberal leaders such as Mr. Urban, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and President Vladimir F. Putin from Russia. Mr. Trump said this month Mr. Putin “has passed a lot with meReferring to the FBI investigating Russian intervention in the 2016 elections and communications between the Trump campaign and Russian agents.

He was in the midst of this investigation when Mr. Trump James B. Kumi, Director of the FBI, who publicly rejected him with any relations with Russia. Mr. Kumi also refused to surrender to Mr. Trump’s pressure to drop the investigation of the FBI in Michael T. Flynn, the former White House National Security Adviser.

Eight years later, Mr. Netanyahu He persuaded his government to shoot at Mr. BarDespite the major protests in the streets in Jerusalem this week, which condemns his threats to remove the president of Shane Hann. On Friday, the Israeli Supreme Court issued Israel Israel to freeze Mr. Bar so that the judges could hear the petitions that were submitted against it.

Alon Benkas, a former political commentator and consul in Israel in New York, said it was doubtful that Mr. Netanyahu would have been moving against the President of Shane Hann if Mr. Trump was not president. He said that the two leaders were politically good morale, and both were “adopting an identical language that would make George Orwell wander around envy.”

Mr. Trump and Mr. Netanyahu also use this language regularly to discredit the media, another institution they often see with contempt. National broadcaster in Israel, It was, mentioned this week This was during a meeting with Mr. Trump in Washington last month when Mr. Netanyahu was inspired by Mr. Bar.

He asked to comment on this report, Mr. Netanyahu’s spokesman, Omar Duvry, responded with a text message: “Fake News”.