Indictments against him .. Does Netanyahu holed up the peace plan to resolve the elections?

Mohamed Mohsen Wedd - occupied Jerusalem

While the Israeli Attorney General filed an indictment against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the latter opened his campaign from the White House, after he withdrew his request from the Knesset to obtain immunity, prior to announcing - alongside US President Donald Trump - details of the US peace plan.

Trump's announcement of the plan with the interim government of Netanyahu, which is in transition in Israel, did not win the confidence of the Knesset, so the president of the "Blue-White" coalition, Benny Gantz, was called to consultations in the White House to give the crystallized deal between Trump and Netanyahu a "legitimate character". .

Netanyahu is betting on the deal with Trump to be the savior in the third elections, but with indictments filed against him and his decision to withdraw the immunity request from the Knesset, the new plan described - according to observers - a kind of lame duck, knowing that Netanyahu is competing with a coalition led by three army chiefs of staff who adopted The US plan is in full swing, notably Gantz, who defeated him in last September's elections.

What is noteworthy - according to Israeli analysts - is that the plan, which some consider "historic" despite not obtaining the legitimacy and consensus of Zionists in the Israeli electoral scene that is being formed by the third elections to be held on the second of next March, was launched quickly and quickly.

It is not unlikely, according to analysts - that Netanyahu - who sees the deal as a lifeline to exporting his internal crisis due to corruption and trial charges - precedes the events and precipitates the announcement of annexing parts of the West Bank and imposes Israeli sovereignty over the settlements, the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea.

Exchange and attraction
Analysts agree that the actions of Netanyahu - who is holed up in Trump's peace plan to confront his trial and gain the trust of the Israeli public again - are the most dramatic, and perhaps irreversible, steps in the political history of the Hebrew state, to use that in his election campaign to divert attention from his trial and attract public opinion to resolve the elections in favor of a camp The fascist right and religious Zionism.

Political commentator and party affairs editor for the Haaretz newspaper, Yossi Fatter, asserts that the timing of the announcement of the Trump plan a month before the Knesset elections came to serve Netanyahu in the elections, and give him privileges to control the West Bank and the Jordan Valley, so that the American peace plan will be Netanyahu's paper to win voters and settle the elections despite submitting Indictments against him.

And about the possibility that Trump's plan would contribute to enhancing the chances and fortunes of Netanyahu to form the government; the party affairs editor played down this possibility, but stressed that Trump's third gift came at a crucial stage for Netanyahu's political future, whose popularity - such as his party's electoral strength - was declining in opinion polls, Thus, Ferter says, "The deal of the century is an oxygen dose for Netanyahu in the election campaign."

Gifts and discount
Nevertheless, he believes that Netanyahu will use Trump's plan to be a renewed lever for his shares, with the disappearance of the issue of immunity, provided that the agenda is concerned with the political discourse surrounding the future of the Middle East, the risk of a peace agreement with Jordan, or perhaps an escalation in the West Bank and Gaza until the election fund is resolved.

Ferter recalled the gifts Trump presented to Netanyahu prior to the first parliamentary elections last April, and that was American recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Syrian Golan occupied by Israel, preceded by the gift of Trump's unified Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish people and the transfer of the Washington embassy from Tel Aviv to the Israeli capital, Despite all these gifts, Ferter says, "Netanyahu has twice failed to form a government."

He noted that deliberations on Netanyahu's charges will take place, evidence will be presented, witnesses will be heard, and Netanyahu will be in the dock, stressing that there will be no escape from his trial, and that no one will be able to save him from punishment, even if Trump and Kushner allow him to annex the moon and the stars To build a million settlements and impose Israeli sovereignty on them.

Deal and immunity
From the viewpoint of political analyst in the newspaper "Maariv", Ben Caspit, the Trump plan will not end the Arab-Israeli conflict, nor will it bring peace to the Middle East, but it will undoubtedly be the savior to give Netanyahu the outlet to stay more in the political scene, stressing that Trump is a target of It was published just prior to the elections, to enable Netanyahu and the right-wing camp to gain 61 seats to form a far-right government in Israel.

And the political analyst believes that Netanyahu, no matter what happened from Trump's gifts, and no matter how he tried to take unilateral steps in the Palestinian cause, and announce the annexation to satisfy the right and religious Zionism before the elections; it is necessary to face the judicial track.

And with indictments being presented for the first time in the history of the state against an Israeli prime minister, Ben Kasbitt says, "The Netanyahu government will be condemned for bribery, fraud and breach of trust. There is no exit, no return from this path."

He stressed that Netanyahu will not be able to seek immunity from the next Knesset, since the indictment has already been filed against him in court, pointing out that the trial will take place even if Netanyahu gets eighty seats in the March elections, indicating that after the fund is decided and any government is not formed. Its composition matters, Netanyahu sedan on criminal charges. Then the political analyst says, "Only Netanyahu knows what the plan will be to get out of this strait."