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Post by Daniel on Feb 14, 2018 9:44:01 GMT -5
Caroline Glick: Israel’s ‘Deep State’ Targets Netanyahu with Bogus Charges
by Caroline Glick
13 Feb 2018
The Israeli police investigation against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows remarkable similarities with the Special Counsel probe against President Donald Trump in the United States.
During the prime time news broadcasts Tuesday evening in Israel, the dramatic news was announced that Israel Police investigators are recommending that Israel’s Attorney General, Avichai Mandelblit, indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on bribery and breach of trust charges in two investigations.
The news raises a number of obvious questions about Netanyahu’s political future. But it also raises an equal, if not greater, number of questions about the purity of the police service’s intentions and its trustworthiness.
Let us begin by considering the specific cases that form the bases of police recommendations against Netanyahu.
The first investigation has been dubbed Investigation 1000 by the Police’s main criminal investigations unit, Lahav 433. The investigation surrounds the relationship between Netanyahu and his old friend, Israeli businessman and Hollywood movie producer Arnon Milchen. The police have recommended that Milchen be indicted for paying bribes to Netanyahu. The police recommend indicting Netanyahu for taking bribes from Milchen and acting illegally on his behalf.
According to Israel’s Hadashot television news, this investigation was the top story in terms of volume of coverage during 2017.
more
www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/02/13/caroline-glick-israel-deep-state-targets-netanyahu-bogus-charges/
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Post by Daniel on Feb 14, 2018 10:55:52 GMT -5
The Netanyahu scandals – good for a laugh in America.
Jack Engelhard, 14/02/18
...Come on, this is not Watergate. This is cigar-gate. That is barely worth a headline -- though The New York Times, dancing as they wrote this, kvelled azoy, or like this – “Netanyahu should face graft charges, Israeli police say.” Yes, this is a story tailor-made for the Left, for whom Trump and Netanyahu can always expect nasty coverage.
That for both the evidence is scant to silly to non-existent, makes no difference to the Left. All they need is a scent to keep them in business.
So he took gifts? To us in the US that amounts to a hill of beans, and Netanyahu says so himself. Gifts – and what else did he do?
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Did Netanyahu botch a sting operation – Fast and Furious, it’s been tagged – that ended up so misbegotten that thousands of USA weapons ended up in the wrong hands and into the laps of Mexican drug traffickers? No, that wasn’t Netanyahu. That was Obama’s Eric Holder again…and we don’t know what he was smoking.
Was Netanyahu so careless with his email server that thousands of government secrets may have turned up in, say, Iran? No, that was Hillary Clinton.
Now speaking of Iran, did Netanyahu stuff billions of dollars into the terrorist arms of Iran’s ayatollahs? No, not Netanyahu. That was Obama.
Did Netanyahu use Israel’s Tax Authority to thwart his enemies? No, that was Obama using the IRS.
Did Netanyahu use Israel’s secret services to spy on Israeli citizens, plus the political opposition? No, that was the Obama Administration against Trump.
That, so happens, is the scandal of the moment, USA.
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www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/21710
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Post by Daniel on Feb 14, 2018 11:07:36 GMT -5
Tax breaks, visas, et al: The 6 frauds for which police want Netanyahu charged
By Raoul Wootliff
Police recommendations that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be charged for a raft of bribery and breach of trust transgressions caught both pundits and politicians by surprise Tuesday evening, both for the severity of the charges and the specifics of the accused crimes.
According to police leaks that had filled news reels and reams of paper day after day, the year-long probes of the so-called Case 1000 and Case 2000 had uncovered a fair bit of quid (in the form of gifts given by billionaire benefactors to the prime minister, and a promise for better coverage from the media outlet most antagonistic to him) but not much quo.
Even the most recent reports had indicated that in return for the gifts, perhaps the most significant example of a favor Netanyahu had done in return was helping arrange visas.
But Tuesday’s announcement, which came in the form of a 2,000-word statement detailing the recommended charges, demolished the assumption that the allegations involve little more than cigars and a little bureaucratic help.
Police are recommending that Netanyahu stand trial in both cases not only for fraud and breach of trust, but also for the much more serious crime of bribery.
more
www.timesofisrael.com/tax-breaks-visas-et-al-the-6-frauds-for-which-police-want-netanyahu-charged/
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Post by Daniel on Feb 15, 2018 11:22:47 GMT -5
'The Opposition refuses to accept the will of the People'
Arutz Sheva Staff, 14/02/18
...Standing in front of the Knesset, Hotovely said, "A huge storm is passing over the Israel's lawmaking body in the wake of the police recommendations. I am here to remind us all of the basic rules of democracy."
"Everyone talks about morals and values, and the value of the rule of law, but the rule of law in Israel is first of all to honor the nation's choice.
"You, the Israeli voters, chose Netanyahu and the Likud party to lead the State of Israel in democratic elections. That was the will of the majority of Israelis.
"This house is divided into a coalition and opposition, a government and a minority who want to replace the government. Unfortunately, it seems that this minority never accepted the voters' will. Again and again we see wrangling, which is legitimate when you're discussing opinions or alternative ideas, but which is not legitimate when you systematically pressure the government's Attorney General to indict someone no matter what the cost."
Hotovely also noted that "this isn't about a desire to expose the truth, and there's no real desire here to obey the rules of Israeli democracy. There's a desire to replace the government in a way other than the one laid out by Israeli law."
"We all want to know the truth, but you need to remember: There is a huge difference between police recommendations, which are not obligatory, and the Attorney General, who is the only one who is responsible for trying publicly elected figures.
"Yes, we all want Israel's public figures to have clean hands, and we all want clean elections, but we need to remember: When we're discussing serious accusations, such as bribery, there needs to be actual proof in order to try someone. If you're talking about accepting gifts from friends, there's a huge question of whether the police actually have proof that it is bribery, in the classic sense of receiving something in return. I think it's clear to all of us that the truth is neither exposed nor revealed.
"The most absurd part is that the police's main witness is the very person who sees himself as replacing Netanyahu.
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www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/241944
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