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JERUSALEM, April 9 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's long-running corruption trial ‌will resume on Sunday, the courts' spokesperson said on Thursday, hours after Israel lifted a state of emergency imposed over its war with Iran.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/halt-iran-attacks-means-netanyahus-corruption-trial-will-resume-sunday-2026-04-09/

(So I now expect Israel to attack Iran after sundown on Saturday.)

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Oberst Enzian 2d ago

@cstross Bibi needs a war to stay out of prison. The wars, therefore, will never end.

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Sablebadger 1d ago

@oberstenzian @cstross that's kind of Trump's strategy (and I use that term loosely here) as well.

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Oberst Enzian

@Sablebadger @cstross Pretty much! Though Trump’s real trump card is his vague hope that DHS will be his brownshirts, deployed against us in the event of the collapse of his Coalition of Fascist Collaborators.