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Netanyahu’s political party says his claims of ‘election fraud’ are different from Trump’s

(JTA) – When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims that his rivals are perpetrating the “greatest electoral fraud in the history of the country,” he’s not actually talking about voter fraud or negating a peaceful transfer of power, his Likud party said.

In a series of tweets in English Thursday, Likud sought to dispel the idea that Netanyahu was casting doubt on the actual results of the recent Israeli election or opposing a peaceful transfer of power.

The tweets came after Netanyahu said in a speech that the incoming government set to replace him is the result of historic fraud and “endangers the State of Israel in a way we haven’t seen for many years.” In the United States and Israel, the speech drew comparisons to then-President Donald Trump’s rhetoric ahead of the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol.

The Twitter postings seemed designed to rebut that comparison.

“When PM Netanyahu speaks about ‘election fraud’ he isn’t referring to the vote counting process in Israel in which he has complete confidence,” Likud wrote. “There is also no question about the peaceful transition of power. There always has been a peaceful transfer of power in Israel and there always will be.”

Main Photo: President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet in the Oval Office on the occasion of signing normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, Sept. 15, 2020. (Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images)

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