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Jerusalem, Israel – The global reaction to the FBI raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was mostly muted on Tuesday, with even his close allies and supporters in Israel refraining from commenting on the events that took place. created controversy in the United States
“A lot of people here [in Israel] they are aware of what is happening, but it is not causing the kind of protest that is seen in the United States right now and it is understandable, “said Marc Zell, an international lawyer, who serves as president of Republicans Overseas Israel and vice president president. by Republicans Overseas International.
He said that “as a general rule, Israelis don’t know much about American politics and are distracted by their own problems.” Zell highlighted the hostilities last weekend between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, the threat of Iran and the upcoming national elections, also in November.
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President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office on Tuesday, September 15, 2020, at the White House in Washington.
(AP Photo / Alex Brandon)
Zell, who condemned the FBI raid in a tweet, said, however, that parallels could certainly be drawn between Trump and former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Trump and Netanyahu are often compared,” he said. “Both are very outspoken leaders, very strong-willed leaders, which is something that many Israelis admire and, likewise, many Israelis despise, both of these people tend to elicit intense reactions from their supporters and their enemies.”
Dr Gadi Taub, a professor of US history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, told Fox News Digital that the similarities between the two leaders and the criminal investigations they both face now, after being ousted from power, are still closer.
“I think the arming of state agencies in both countries is pretty clear,” Taub said. “I think we can’t fully interpret this if we don’t understand that at the heart of it all is an alliance between the left-wing media and state agencies.”
Aside from Zell, Taub and a handful of others, there has been mostly silence on the raid, which Trump supporters say was unprecedented and undermined public confidence in the US judicial system.
In other countries, political leaders, experts and the media also refrained from commenting or criticizing the Biden administration or US authorities for the raid.
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“So far the Russian media has refrained from openly attacking the Biden administration’s justice department or directly supporting former President Trump,” said Rebekah Koffler, chairman of Doctrine & Strategy Consulting, a former DIA intelligence officer. and author of “Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America”.
“The coverage of the FBI raid on President Trump’s estate is largely neutral, as the Russian media is simply reporting the news that comes out of the Western media,” he said.
Koffler noted, “However, the focus of the report is on criticism from GOP officials who criticize the FBI for targeting President Biden’s political opponent and potential future presidential candidate. The most important issue is that 100 agents FBI dropped at Trump’s Florida home. “
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In the UK, the picture was similar, with most media gathering news from the United States, although the left-wing newspaper The Guardian ran an opinion piece stating that “development has hit Trump and his side hard. family. Or conveniently, depending on how you look at it. “
