Trump plan won’t bring peace, helps Netanyahu, raises risk of binational state

https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-plan-wont-bring-peace-helps-netanyahu-raises-risk-of-binational-state/

On one of the darkest days of Benjamin Netanyahu’s long and lively career, Donald Trump handed him one of his greatest victories.

On Tuesday morning, the prime minister abandoned his doomed bid to secure parliamentary immunity from prosecution in the three graft cases against him, and shortly afterwards, the attorney-general formally filed the charges at the Jerusalem District Court — giving Netanyahu the unhappy distinction of becoming the first Israeli premier to be indicted while in office.