Posted on 05/25/25
| News Source: JPost
Israeli ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter was summoned by the Director General of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Attorney Eden Bar-Tal, for a hearing regarding remarks he made during an interview with conservative media platform PragerU on Thursday.
This is in accordance with the directive of the Director of the Senior Disciplinary Division at the Civil Service Commission.
While being interviewed by PragerU last Thursday, Leiter spoke strongly against Israel's legal system that "exhausts Netanyahu, who has not broken," the "evil" opposition, and left-wing voters who fabricate "blood libel."
"If you call the number one Jew in the world a war criminal, then Jews are war criminals, they are like their prime minister, so why shouldn't there be antisemites?" he argued.
Leiter attacked those who claimed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prolonging the war to evade the charges against him, stating, "These are very serious charges. Did someone bring him cigars, or did he ask a news site to publish positive articles about him? Is this a bribe? It's just an insult. Everything is crumbling, one after the other. The charges are collapsing like a house of cards, these are castles in the sand, they just built sand castles. And the idea was to wear him down until he broke. That was the plan. And he didn't break."