Former Israeli defence minister Avigdor Lieberman has demanded a criminal investigation into Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged treason, accusing the prime minister of pressuring military leaders into a confrontation with Iran to avert electoral defeat. In a letter to Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, the leader of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party alleged that Netanyahu had spent the past month pushing security chiefs to take steps that could trigger a “miscalculation” with Tehran. “The attempt to drag the State of Israel into war on the eve of elections, together with the willingness to sacrifice Israeli army soldiers solely out of fear of...
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