Report: Netanyahu to be investigated for bribery, fraud

[SecularMotion]

Source: Times of Israel

A months-long inquiry into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s affairs took a new twist on Monday, with police reportedly convinced that they will be able to open a full-blown criminal investigation against him in the next few days.

Police recently received new documents as part of a secret inquiry that began almost nine months ago, Channel 2 reported. Based on thpse files police have already turned to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit requesting that he allow them to open a full criminal investigation. The report stated that among the suspected offenses are bribe-taking and aggravated fraud.

A spokesperson for the prime minister said that “it’s all nonsense,” Haaretz reported. “Since Netanyahu’s victory in the last elections and even before, hostile elements have used heroic efforts to attempt to bring about [Netanyahu’s] downfall, with false accusations against him and his family. This [latest attempt] is absolutely false. There was nothing and there will be nothing.”

In June, it was reported that Israel Police Chief Roni Alsheich gave his go-ahead on the secret investigation by special police unit Lahav 433, but that he had demanded full cooperation on secrecy and that no details be leaked to the media.

Read more: http://www.timesofisrael.com/report-netanyahu-to-be-investigated-for-bribery-fraud/

[47of74]

1. Oh please

[Mc Mike]

2. Explains why he likes dRumpfenfuhrer so much, I guess.

Birds of a feather.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Hence the prickled indignation

best to make a lot of noise when trying to keep a lid on things

[Chasstev365]

4. If true, Israel has more of a democracy than the USA

How sad is that?

[Sunlei]

5. 'someone' hacked their emails,& starts to destablise another government from within.

[mopinko]

17. this

like him or not, here we go again.

[Sunlei]

19. watch, now couple 'Pals' will push back over the settlement over-building rush & that will be excuse

to escalate into a war? Republicans war contractors of course will be happy to be hired to help move out Pals.

Only take a little bit of crafted media 'stories', propaganda to start the ball rolling.

[mopinko]

20. what does a strongman in a corner do?

let's slip the dogs of war.

yep yep. just a little nugget that gets chewed on over, and over, and over. like, i dunno, someone's emails is a good one.

[DK504]

21. Trump is 2 timing Pootie Poots.

Bebe will get jealous.

[Sunlei]

24. trump & putin will gang-up to push out/control pals. (they'll call them the terrorist threats)

maybe even claim IS has infiltrated them.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

6. YESSS!!

[zippythepinhead]

7. This man is leading us into WWIII

With drump's help.

Put him under the jail.


















[block quote]

[coco22]

8. What took so long?

[Sunlei]

23. remember Republicans met with him many times. even the Republican 'charity' paid millions to fly-

every Republican to Israel for closed door 'meetings' in Israel last year. remember Republicans had him over in washington dc and met with him. Had him make a speech. Republicans invest in Israel, new homes are gaining mortgages. more settlements, more new home loans are good for investments. (there will be a mortgage bust in a decade, guaranteed)

Our country needed a couple more years of a humane president.

[Dustlawyer]

9. We have a shadow government here that makes sure there are no investigations

or indictments of powerful people unless they screw someone more powerful.

[karynnj]

12. You forget both major party's nominees for president were subject

To at least one investigation. Trump settled the investigato on into Trump university. Scneiderman, the NY AG, is still investigating the Trump Foundation.

Netanyahu has been investigated for more than a decade. It seems he, at minimum, stretches what is legal.

[Dustlawyer]

15. Both major Party's nominee's were opposed by powerful blocks of powerful people.

Wall Street got a pass for massive world-wide fraud and continues to do so, sometimes paying a relatively small fine when word leaked out. The Pentagon lost over a billion dollars and they cannot even get an audit, much less indictments. Washington is awash in Quid Pro Quo's and NO ONE is looking into that! D.A.'s fail to indict bad cops, or when public pressure is too high and they must, they usually still fail to convict these same cops even when there is clear video evidence of a crime.

It works a different way too. Marijuana is listed as a schedule 1 drug, no medicinal or other value, when the evidence is clear that it is a wonder drug. That is because powerful Lobby's like Law Enforcement, private prisons, alcohol manufacturers, and drug companies do not want a loss in profit, or in the case of Law Enforcement, huge cuts in manpower and money.

BP intentionally cut corners on the Deepwater Horizon to the point that Trans Ocean and Haliburton objected to what they wanted to do. BP told them to do it or look for other oil companies to work for. This argument occurred on the rig the day of the explosion. The only ones charged were a couple of poor sacrificial mid-level guys. Eric Holder refused to revoke the probation BP was under for killing 15 and injuring 6,000 in 2005 in Texas City, and in fact let BP off early retroactively before the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

The media would not report the truth of the aftermath for fear of losing all of the ad dollars BP started spending after the spill.

All of this stems from the root problem in our Democracy, we allow legal bribery of our elected officials!

[nycbos]

18. You are quite right.

Bibi does seem to know exactly where the line is. He walks right up to the line but is careful not to breach it.

[Equinox Moon]

13. Is that how the banksters got away with it all these years?

[Bradical79]

29. Not sure I'd call it a "shadow" government :-P

[Cosmocat]

10. Right wing asshat

pretty much fits the profile.

[mountain grammy]

11. Three corrupt leaders of the new world order

Bibi, Vlad and Don the Con.. of course, don the con has no intelligence, but he'll be useful.

[karynnj]

14. BiBi does not belong in that group, though it flatters him

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Putin and Trump will head the two most powerful countries in the world. Israel is nowhere near that level.

[mountain grammy]

16. Yeah, I know, but he thinks they are,

must be all that American cash. In Bibi's mind, he's the 51st state with all the benefits and none of the obligations. trumpers love Bibi as much as Putin, at least that's what I hear from my brain dead nephew. We all have to get our news somewhere.

[karynnj]

26. Yeah, almost like the many toy dogs, who see the world held aloft by their owners, who thing THEY

are the big dog. We had a maltese who barked at all the big dogs and scared the deer away. He never saw that he was just 7 pounds.

More seriously, the American media treats Netanyahu with the respect that decades ago was routinely given the President. I was shocked that the media reported the Netanyahu charges against Kerry and Obama when he lied while they were working with the international community to get a ceasefire in Gaza, before Netanyahu wanted one.

Here is what Netanyahu did. Kerry, representing Obama was in Paris where various countries were working on a ceasefire. Israel chose not to go. Because the US and Israel do not speak to Hamas - the other side of the conflict, Hamas passed its proposal to the Paris based group. As happens in this intentional game of "telephone", the Hamas proposal given to the group was then sent to Netanyahu for his counter proposal by Kerry. Rather than make a counter proposal, Netanyahu dishonestly went to the Knesset, called it the US proposal and got a vote condemning it. The Israeli media covered it more honestly than the US media did. ( I guess Kerry should have tweeted he told Netanyahu that "friends do not lie about the position of their friend". )

The problem is that Israel has moved far from its roots and is now pretty right wing. Netanyahu's cabinet contains many people - as much as half - to his right. He needs to maintain support from 60 members of the Knesset to stay in power. (The United list (the Israeli Arabs) have 20 seats - and other than Meretz, which has (I think 6 seats) - no party would be in a government with the Arabs. Meretz is the party on the left that praised the resolution. ) Netanyahu has tried to get Herzog, the leader of Zionist Union to join his coalition and he has refused and even had he agreed many in his party, which combined Labor and Kadima, were unwilling to go with him. This means that Netanyahu could not jettison the right wing half of his coalition and replace them with people on the left - and his number one goal is seen as Netanyahu remaining as Prime Minister.

(I welcome anyone who understands these parties better correcting what I wrote - especially Israelis.)

[mountain grammy]

27. Thank you for that very clear explanation.

I have a 12 pound shih tzu/maltese mix who thinks he's the big dog. Should have named him Bibi, or even donald.

Yes, Kerry and Obama should have responded, and that would have been a perfect tweet.

[grantcart]

25. Russia no longer ranks as a top level power country

with a GDP less than S Korea and an economy dependent on commodities with low value. They can be dangerous though.

[vkkv]

22. Come on! Take this creep down! n/t

[Auntie Bush]

28. Netanyahu is a sleeze bag! Would love to see the creep in jail.

The minute he was elected I said there would never be peace in Israel! So sorry I was right.