For the past eight years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu has been under continuous investigation on charges of serious corruption. His brazen but fruitless attempts to avoid legal action have dramatically shaken Israel’s stability, both domestically and internationally.

Many Israelis believe that Netanyahu’s attempts to delay his own trial are the key to understanding all recent events, from his endorsement of the illegal expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, his controversial approach to negotiating hostage releases (in effect, a refusal to negotiate), and his military decisions that have created a dangerous situation that the UN Secretary General has described as “a moral stain on us all.”

Political maneuvering

The film The Bibi Files, which has debuted at a Canadian film festival, for the first time lifts the veil on leaked videos of Netanyahu’s interrogations by police, and appears to be a strategic “chess move” by the West, as part of a wider campaign to manage public opinion should Netanyahu be forced to abdicate. Israeli media had already published compromising evidence in the form of these interrogation videos, and thus the film does not reveal any new information. Western countries, particularly the United States, have been criticized for constantly “fueling” Israel’s military machine in Gaza by providing the regime with unwavering military support in addition to huge political and financial assistance. In recent months, there have been large-scale protests in the United States, Canada and European countries against the war in Gaza and the West’s support for the offensive.
Moreover, Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, or, to put it more bluntly, the massacre of Palestinian civilians, have exacerbated the........

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