As Republican losses in the US midterm elections came into focus, President Donald Trump said he would accept the results. The same cannot be said of Benjamin Netanyahu, the man Trump endorsed in Israel.
A week after Israel’s October 27 election, Netanyahu, whose bloc lost its majority, is still challenging the officially certified results. He and his Likud party allege, without presenting evidence, that the vote was “stolen” by Israel’s Arab parties and foreign actors.
The post-election dispute deepened this week after the David Zini, chief of the Shin Bet internal security service and a Netanyahu loyalist, pushed to investigate the leaders of the Arab parties. The attorney general, a longtime target of Israel’s right-wing, refused to authorize such an investigation without evidence.
by CNN Trump said he’d accept the election results. Netanyahu is challenging the outcome of his
