Haaretz: Triggered By His Trial And A TV Expose Of His Wife's Gruesome Attack-Dog Tactics, Netanyahu Is Escalating His Assault On "Enemies On The Left And In The Media" With A Video Rant Which Was Also A Barely Disguised Threat

Haaretz Title: 'Networks of Poison and Panic': Netanyahu's Attack on the Media Goes Nuclear

Throughout his six non-consecutive days of testimony in his criminal trials, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been defending himself against his charges in Case 4000. According to the indictment, Netanyahu struck a deal with a media mogul to give his company regulatory benefits in exchange for positive coverage on the Walla news website.

The prime minister strongly denies this, saying that there is no deal – he'd just talked to Bezeq controlling shareholder Shaul Elovitch a few times about tweaking Walla to line up with the latter's own right-wing ideals.

This push, he claimed, came from his own sense of liberalism and the free marketplace of ideas. The Israeli media machine is infested with leftists and doesn't reflect the public's views, he claimed; Elovitch should have made personnel changes in the name of diversifying the national discourse and, apparently, the existential threats facing the country. Netanyahu further claimed that even when the quid pro quo would have been in place, the website was hostile toward him and his family.

Those arguments broke free from the courtroom on Thursday, with a four-minute video posted by the prime minister to social media. In it, he says that the allegations in his indictment are falling apart each day in court, but that's not the concern here – that would be his "enemies on the left and in the media."

This speech seemed to be inspired by "Uvda," an investigative news program hosted by journalist Ilana Dayan (no relation), which last week delved into how Sara Netanyahu directed attacks against perceived threats toward the first family – even if they were the attorney general, the prosecutor in the prime minister's criminal case, or bereaved families. But Netanyahu made it very clear that the program's sins are shared by the entire media ecosystem.
He decried the "networks of poison and panic" that spread fake news. "What happens on these poisonous channels is daily, hourly incitement against the right wing, against the Haredi community, against the settlers – that is the real poison machine."...

At the end of the video, he nonchalantly offers a suggestion to the media: "Enough. Get over it. The nation is smart, and it's tired of you. It doesn't believe your lies anymore."

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