Washington – Sen. Elizabeth Warren, an announced presidential candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination, said the United States should “call out” corruption in Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Warren, of Massachusetts, posted the remark on Twitter Thursday following the Israeli attorney general’s announcement that he intends to indict Netanyahu on three counts of criminal abuse of power, pending a hearing.
“Corruption — in Israel, in the US, or anywhere else — is a cancer that threatens democracy. We need to fight back. And we can start by having the courage to call it out wherever it occurs. Even among our allies,” Warren wrote.
“First embracing right-wing extremism. Now manipulating a free press, accepting bribes, and trading government favors,” she wrote, accusing Netanyahu of delivering a “cut to the heart of a functioning democracy.”
Netanyahu has been criticized in Israel and beyond for facilitating a deal including a far-right party ahead of April’s national elections that would help to ensure that a right-wing coalition emerges in the Knesset.
The pending indictment against Netanyahu accuses him of taking bribes and interfering with the media for positive coverage of himself. Denying the accusations, he said in a speech televised to the nation Thursday that the indictment will “fall apart” and “was rushed to manipulate the elections.”
Warren followed with a link to a post describing her foreign policy goals of opposing “right-wing demagogues.”
She has criticized Israel’s policies toward Palestinians. Warren voted in favor of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and skipped Netanyahu’s controversial March 2015 speech to Congress opposing the agreement.
And this is coming from someone who comes from an Indian tribe
She is really crazy!!!!
Fauxohantas who lied about her race for decades to advance her career is one to talk
Perhaps the United States should call out the esteemed Senator from Massachusetts.
“Forgetting about the presumption of innocence — in Israel, in the US, or anywhere else — is a cancer that threatens democracy. We need to fight back. And we can start by having the courage to call it out wherever it occurs. Even among our senators”
“manipulating a free press, accepting bribes, and trading government favors” — he hasn’t been convicted yet, or even officially indicted yet, and we don’t want to hear this from Warren or from any other leftist American politician — but among unzera we unfortunately know it’s true.
Netanyahu might be 0.001 % Palestinian so take it easy
One wonders what does interfering in a foreign election mean if this itself is not such an interference.
Look who is talking, a person faking Native American heritage, who has had free education most of her life because the lie of being a Native American. Us little tax payers have been furnishing her this education with our tax dollars. Where did she think all that money was coming from that furnished her that education to the finest top school in the country??? Talk about a fraud, and you all are going to vote for her for????? Let Israel take care of Israel and United States take care of United States problems, we have enough without worrying about some one else’s country.
If pocahontas has any understanding of law, whether in the USA or Israel, she should consider that anybody is innocent till proven guilty. Coming from this liberal/trash liar, nothing shocks me. just understand that her only concern is if she can paint Israel or Jews in a bad light.
So lying about your pedegree is not corruption? Pocahontas needs to worry about herself and her constituency, and leave Bibi – who hasn’t been charged let alone convicted – alone.
She’s right.
Shes a crazy politician but happens to be right on this one.
Bibi is no saint, but currently he is the elected Prime Minister of Israel, and has held that office just about longer than anyone in recent history. More than any individual, he represents the Israeli government. And the State of Israel is considered by most gentiles to represent the Jewish people.
If she is attacking our leader, she is attacking the entire Jewish people. But this is not news. She has already taken sides with the enemies of Israel before.
POS
She has no chance of winning the democratic nomination… won’t even come in second or third.
But as bad as she is, bernie is the greatest danger the Jewish people face if he would be elected president of the US. Watch out for him.