Benjamin Netanyahu corruption trial delayed on diplomatic and security grounds
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Netanyahu's Corruption Trial Delayed After Trump Threats
Above: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement during a visit to the site of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel on June 20, 2025. Image copyright: Jack Guez/Pool/AFP/Getty Images
The Spin
Pro-establishment narrative
Trump's unprecedented intervention in Netanyahu's corruption trial is a direct threat to Israeli democracy. An American president has effectively never threatened to suspend military aid to Israel, with Trump directly endangering Israel's security in a bid to protect his ally Netanyahu.
Pro-Israel narrative
Trump is well within his right to call for the end of the sham trial against Netanyahu. Trump is the most pro-Israel president in American history, and he has single-handedly helped Israel destroy and weaken its enemies. The fact that Israel's left would attack the prime minister via lawfare while the country fights a war for its very existence is ludicrous and wrong.
Pro-Palestine narrative
Nothing that Trump says changes the reality that Israel is committing a U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza that it seeks to replicate in the West Bank. The plan has been the same since day one — destroy Gaza and starve its people until no one is left. This war was never about the hostages, as Israeli leaders have repeatedly said recently, and was always about destroying the Palestinian people.