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kpete

(71,981 posts)
Mon Mar 2, 2020, 10:57 AM Mar 2020

Wow. Saying the quiet part out loud. Really loud.

In the newly revealed recording, he can be heard discussing the party’s campaign strategy with an unnamed person whom he is trying to recruit as a political adviser, according to the report. In the tape, Eshel says that Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit’s decision to indict Netanyahu in three corruption cases actually helped the premier in his campaign. “He went up by 20 percent” Eshel recalls, though it was unclear what numbers he was referring to.

“If you haven’t stolen, what exactly have you come [into politics] for? We’ve checked this. And to my shock, they [the public] do not understand [this notion] of going into politics to do what’s good for the nation. You go into politics in order to steal and you need to be a man,” Eshel claims, not yet specifying which public he was referring to.

“Now, in this public, I’ll call it… non-Ashkenazi…What gets them worked up? Why do they hate the press?… They hate everything and we’ve succeeded in whipping up that hatred. Hatred is what unites our camp,” Eshel says plainly.

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-aide-in-leaked-recording-hate-is-what-unites-our-camp/

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Wow. Saying the quiet part out loud. Really loud. (Original Post) kpete Mar 2020 OP
Context? N/t Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #1
Leaked recording reveals some truth: kpete Mar 2020 #3
Something really smells. brush Mar 2020 #2
Yep. Rightwingers everywhere. BComplex Mar 2020 #4

kpete

(71,981 posts)
3. Leaked recording reveals some truth:
Mon Mar 2, 2020, 11:12 AM
Mar 2020

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s senior aide Natan Eshel said that “hate is what unites” the right-wing camp led by the Likud party and that negative campaigning works well on “non-Ashkenazi voters” in a leaked recording revealed by Channel 12 on Saturday.

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