TEL AVIV, Dec 5: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a sharply worded public attack against Tel Aviv’s state prosecutors on Thursday on the bribery case trial against him. In an English-language video posted, he slammed the prosecutors, and alleged that the corruption cases against him were farcical, a “political trial” designed to remove him from power.

The message, posted days after he formally sought a presidential pardon, was framed as a response to questions he said he had received from international audiences about the nature of the charges.

Netanyahu is standing trial in three cases: bribery in Case 4000 and fraud and breach of trust in Cases 1000 and 2000, though he has consistently denied all charges.

In the video, he dismissed the core bribery accusation – that

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