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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Jessie Williams

Trump’s Iran deal, corruption trial and elections: Will Netanyahu survive his perfect storm?

It has been a momentous week for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Not only has a preliminary peace deal been agreed between the US and Iran, but the cross-examination in his trial has ended after over a year of questioning, drawing one of the most politically consequential trials in Israeli history into the final stretch.

With Mr Netanyahu’s corruption trial in the spotlight, along with criticism of the peace deal from Israeli politicians, and anger from a large majority of the population who say the US-Israeli war on Iran has not left them any safer, his chances in the upcoming elections look shaky.

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