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Netanyahu: Police File ‘Full of Holes’
By
TPS
• 14 February, 2018
Jerusalem, 14 February, 2018 (TPS) -- Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that the police recommendation to indict him on two counts of graft was “as full of holes as Swiss cheese,” and repeated his assertion that the governing coalition would complete its current term, scheduled to expire by November, 2019.
Speaking at to the annual Council for Local Government conference at the Tel Aviv Convention Center, Netanyah said he would continue “to work on behalf of Israel” and that nobody in the coalition has any plans to remove him from power. He added that the recommendations were “extreme” and “faulty”, and repeated his oft-stated assurance that nothing would come of the legal process against him because no crimes had been committed.
“The recommendation, ignores or even blurs the very close friendship I share with Milchan – and that gifts were given in both directions. It also blows up the sums involved beyond all recognition. The numbers (that the police are reporting) have nothing to do with me.
“Most importantly, they ignore – as do all the commentators (in the media) – that I have worked AGAINST Milchan’s interests not on behalf of them,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu also attacked Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid, who will reportedly be a witness in Case 1,000, noting that Lapid also maintains a close friendship with Milchan and has vowed to bring down Netanyahu “at any cost.”This is the same Lapid who is also close friends with Milchan. There is nothing wrong with that, but he is also a close friend. He was employed by Milchan and discussed Milchan’s affairs with him when he was finance minister in charge about Milchan’s affairs – that is to say, he did not recuse himself from dealing with Milchan’s affairs.
“Think what would have happened if I had done something like that. I would have been interrogated under warning seven times…the moment Lapid says the magic word ‘Netanyahu’ the world turns upside down. I get indictment recommendations, and Lapid is applauded,” Netanyahu said.
