I always liked and respected Mr. Netanyahu, I hope he weathers this.

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-N...bery-tomorrow-581950

Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit is expected to announce his intent to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery on Thursday, in a decision that could decisively impact the April 9 election.

With Netanyahu’s Likud Party and Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Party close in the polls, if the prime minister loses even a few seats due to the accusations against him for public corruption, it could turn the tide.
Even if Netanyahu wins re-election, there is a strong chance that Mandelblit, after holding a series of pre-indictment hearings with Netanyahu’s lawyers, will issue a final decision to indict him in the next three to 12 months. This could lead the High Court of Justice to force his resignation, if he does not voluntarily step down.

Sources close to Mandelblit have previously told The Jerusalem Post that if he moves to indict Netanyahu for the serious charge of bribery – as opposed to a lesser charge – he would not defend Netanyahu before the High Court if a petition would be filed to force the prime minister to resign.

Mandelblit is expected to indict Netanyahu for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in Case 4000, the Bezeq-Walla Affair, and for breach of trust in Case 1000, the Illegal Gifts Affair. No decision has been formally leaked regarding Case 2000, the Yediot Aharonot-Israel Hayom Affair, but indications are that either the case will be closed, or the charge will also be only for breach of trust, not bribery.

The attorney-general’s likely move to indict the prime minister is a tectonic shift for Israeli politics. But if Mandelblit overrules the vast majority of the prosecution staff who want a bribery charge in both Case 1000 and Case 2000, his decision will ultimately be middle-of-the-road.

Mandelblit is also expected to rule in favor of Sara Netanyahu, closing charges against her in Case 4000 which the police had recommended and which many prosecutors also supported.

The attorney-general is expected to move toward indicting Bezeq and Walla owner Shaul Elovitch for bribery and obstruction of justice as well as his wife, Iris, and a range of other top Bezeq officials.

Case 4000

There are two premises to the accusations against Netanyahu in Case 4000.

The first premise is that Netanyahu fired Communications Ministry director-general Avi Berger and hired his loyalist and ex-campaign manager Shlomo Filber to ensure a government policy that improperly favored Elovitch’s interests in Bezeq.

Filber has since turned state’s witness against the prime minister – a critical breakthrough in gathering evidence of the regulatory half of the bribery case.

The second premise is that in exchange for the positive treatment for Bezeq, Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, directed Elovitch’s online news site Walla to give him favorable coverage.

This was arranged through Elovitch, his wife, former top Netanyahu aide Nir Hefetz, who also turned state’s witness against the prime minister, and some of Elovitch’s top Walla employees.

Hefetz’s becoming a state’s witness against Netanyahu was considered a critical turning point in building the media-interference half of the bribery case.

This allegedly constituted bribery, as Netanyahu worked to set government policies that would increase monetary profits for Elovitch in exchange for positive media coverage.

Whereas many news reports have discussed alleged Netanyahu-Elovitch interference with Walla coverage since 2015, the police dated the criminal interference back to 2012, continuing into last year.

Mandelblit is expected to agree with the police recommendation to close the case against Yair Netanyahu, the prime minister’s son, due to insufficient evidence.

Both Sara and Yair Netanyahu were allegedly involved in campaigning to get Walla to toe a certain line in media coverage of the Netanyahu family, but the police believed there was more evidence relating to Sara Netanyahu.

Yair Netanyahu, though technically an adult, will likely be let off based on two arguments: he was viewed as not being as fully aware of the situation as his mother, or he might not have known the difference between a media campaign and a bribery-injected one.

Ultimately though, Mandelblit is expected to overrule the police about Sara, closing the case against her as well.

Previously, the police had disclosed that they questioned some 60 witnesses in 176 sessions and gathered massive amounts of documents and recordings, including from foreign countries. Hefetz reportedly taped the Netanyahu and Elovitch families frequently without their knowledge.

Other top officials who Mandelblit is expected to indict based on police recommendations for a combination of bribery, fraud and breach of trust include: former top Bezeq official Amikam Sorer; former Bezeq CEO Stella Handler; Netanyahu and Elovitch family friend and Israel Bonds CEO Zeev Rubinstein; Elovitch’s son, Or; and Eli Kamir.

While the Bezeq-Walla affair dates back to 2015, until February 2018 Filber and Elovitch were the lead suspects. Only after Filber flipped against Netanyahu did the prime minister become the primary suspect.

Filber had been adamant for years that he had acted legally, but upon turning state’s witness he admitted to deceiving the Communications, Finance and Justice ministries about his activities to help Elovitch’s interests in Bezeq and with the Bezeq-Yes merger, all under order from Netanyahu.

Filber also owned a large portion of Yes and is estimated to have profited somewhere between NIS 680 million and more than NIS 1 billion.

Netanyahu denies the charges, saying that the Bezeq-Yes merger was approved by the bureaucracy and that Walla did not give him positive coverage, or if it did, that it is not illegal.

Case 1000

Regarding the Illegal Gifts Affair, Netanyahu is accused of, and admits to, receiving a range of expensive cigars, champagne and other items.

He has denied that he received these gifts for any improper purpose and claimed that the gifts were part of a long-term friendship with billionaires Arnon Milchan and James Packer.

In Case 1000, Netanyahu could face Milchan, Packer, Milchan’s secretary, Yair Lapid, and former chief of staff Ari Harow, who turned state’s witness.

The police recommendations focused on the years 2007-2016. For the vast majority of this time, Netanyahu was prime minister, or at least knocking on the prime minister’s door.

Allegedly, he received a staggering NIS 1 million of illegal benefits from Milchan and Packer.

Milchan and his secretary have made statements to police that even though part of the gift giving started as friends, at some point it evolved to being involuntary.

The police have alleged that part of the evidence against Netanyahu that the gifts were illegal and not part of a standard friendly relationship included the constancy, regularity and involvement of Sara and a bureaucracy of secretaries, drivers and assistants in delivering the gifts.

Allegedly, the prime minister knew about Sara’s requests for gifts, and even intervened on her behalf when her requests were denied.

Late in the investigation, evidence emerged that Netanyahu tried to get a law passed that would get Milchan potentially millions or even hundreds of millions of shekels in tax exemptions as a returning Israeli citizen.

The police have said that Netanyahu even leaned on then-finance minister Lapid to push the law through, but that Lapid or his team blocked the law as against state interests.

Other allegations have been raised about Netanyahu helping Milchan, including the prime minister trying to get him a US visa, but the tax exemption issue is the core quid pro quo.

Case 2000

Yediot Ahronot was losing millions of shekels to Israel Hayom.

Yediot owner Arnon (Nuni) Mozes allegedly asked Netanyahu to use his power to eliminate or reduce Israel Hayom so as to get those millions back.

In exchange, Yediot would allegedly not merely give the prime minister a favorable interview, but entirely shift its coverage – a shift that could be decisive whenever elections came around. The value in such a shift in coverage could be viewed as priceless.

The opinion of the vast majority of the prosecution, reportedly including State Attorney Shai Nitzan and prosecution team leader Liat Ben-Ari (who took down former prime minister Ehud Olmert) as well as the official police recommendation, have been to indict Netanyahu for bribery or attempted bribery.

Indications are that Mandelblit will overrule them and either close the case or reduce the bribery charge to breach of public trust on multiple grounds.

The first reason he might overrule most of his staff would be that, unlike Case 4000, the alleged bribery scheme fell through and never took place. He has viewed proving attempted bribery and intent to bribe without an actual transaction as extremely difficult.

In addition, Mandelblit has been concerned about interfering with politicians’ relations with the media and free speech rights.

Netanyahu says the negotiations with Mozes were an elaborate act and expresses frustration that other politicians involved in similar schemes have not been criminally probed.

Though this same concern existed in Case 4000, there Mandelblit is expected to indict Netanyahu anyway because he views the Bezeq-Yes merger, with hundreds of millions of shekels going into Elovitch’s pocket, as trumping the concern of respecting political-media relations.

Finally, the latest leaks indicate that even though Netanyahu will not be indicted for bribery, Mozes will be.

Another article here also:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/...ry-charges-thursday/

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I haven't been following the case or Israeli domestic politics too closely. I hope this charge isn't true. Netanyahu has been such a blessing for Israel and the world.

Anyone have any informed opinions on the subject? Is it a serious charge or politically motivated?

Always liked Bibi, cool military history, US educated, tough on Palestine. Obviously I know nothing about Israeli politics, but if his actions are out of line of what is expected there and illegal then he needs to face the music. If it's similar to Trump Derangement Syndrome and it's all political I hope he prevails.

He is worth over $11M USD which is a lot of freaking Shekels. Why does he need financial assistance? Without any kind of full knowledge of the situation it smells like bribery to me.

Netanyahu to stand trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust, pending hearing

https://www.timesofisrael.com/...ust-pending-hearing/

AG’s decision is legal bombshell ahead of April 9 elections, marks first time in Israel’s history that serving PM is told he faces
criminal charges; premier to speak at 8 p.m.

In a decision that drastically shakes up Israeli politics less than six weeks before general elections, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be charged with criminal wrongdoing in three separate cases against him, including bribery in the far-reaching Bezeq corruption probe, pending a hearing.

The decision marks the first time in Israel’s history that a serving prime minister has been told he faces criminal charges, and casts a heavy shadow over Netanyahu’s re-election campaign.

Netanyahu will be charged with fraud and breach of trust in Cases 1000 and 2000, and bribery, fraud and breach of trust in Case 4000, unless he can persuade Mandelblit to reconsider in the course of the hearing process.

“This is hugely significant — for the prime minister and for all of us,” said Suzie Navot, a professor of constitutional and parliamentary law. “This was an investigation conducted with caution, with restraint — some would say too much restraint, over too long. The evidence was checked and re-checked.” The attorney general knew full well how dramatic would be the political fallout, she said. “And yet the decision was taken to indict, in all three cases.”

Despite reported recommendations from the state attorney and police that the prime minister stand trial for bribery in all of the cases, Mandelblit opted for the lesser charge of fraud and breach of trust in two of the affairs.

Mandelblit said he would not pursue legal action against Netanyahu’s wife Sara and son Yair, who had also been suspects in the cases.

Responding to the decision, Netanyahu’s Likud party continued to insist that “there is nothing” to the cases against the premier. It accused “the media and the left” of pressuring the attorney general into the decision. “No one is surprised by the announcement,” the party said.

It further claimed that “the witch hunt against the prime minister began with an attempt to hit him with four bribery cases. Even before the hearing, three of those have collapsed.”

Netanyahu was set to give a statement to the media on the decision at 8 p.m.

The prime minister is currently seeking reelection in the April 9 elections against an opposition invigorated by the entry into politics of ex-IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz.

Thursday’s announcement of the intention to indict the prime minister — who long argued that the decision should be postponed until after the vote so that it would not affect public opinion — places Netanyahu’s legal situation front and center in the campaign.

The decision to press charges, pending a hearing, in the criminal investigations against Netanyahu could have a game-changing impact on the elections, a Times of Israel poll published earlier Thursday showed. The ruling Likud party could lose both a significant chunk of support, as well as its ability to form a coalition after the vote, the survey, published overnight Wednesday-Thursday, indicated.

Netanyahu can request a hearing to contest the planned indictment, in a process that could take up to a year, during which time he is not legally obliged to step down. Israeli law only requires that a prime minister step down if convicted, but experts have suggested that Netanyahu could have a “problem” if he seeks to stay in office after a formal indictment is filed at the completion of a hearing process. Under law and High Court of Justice precedent, ministers other than the prime minister are required to step down in such a situation. There is no clear legal rule regarding the prime minister.

Thursday’s announcement came after a last-ditch attempt to prevent Mandelblit from announcing the charges. Netanyahu’s Likud party filed a petition with the High Court of Justice Thursday morning, seeking to stop the attorney general from publishing his decision, but the court rejected the plea on Thursday afternoon.

In Case 1000, involving accusations that Netanyahu received gifts and benefits from billionaire benefactors including Israeli-born Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan in exchange for favors, Mandelblit said he intends to charge Netanyahu with fraud and breach of trust — the latter being a somewhat murkily defined offense relating to an official violating the trust the public has placed in him. Milchan is not to be charged.

In Case 2000, involving accusations Netanyahu agreed with Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper publisher Arnon Mozes to weaken a rival daily in return for more favorable coverage from Yedioth, Mandelblit will seek to also charge the premier with fraud and breach of trust, while Mozes will be charged with bribery. The case is said to have been a contentious one in Mandelblit’s office, with many prosecution officials reportedly arguing that Netanyahu should be charged with bribery, while Mandelblit considered not charging the prime minister at all.

In Case 4000, widely seen as the most serious against the premier, Netanyahu is accused of having advanced regulatory decisions that benefited Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder in the Bezeq telecom giant, in exchange for positive coverage from the Elovitch-owned Walla news site. In that case Mandelblit announced he intends to charge Netanyahu with fraud and breach of trust, and both Netanyahu and Elovitch with bribery.
Shaul Elovitch arrives at the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court for a remand hearing in Case 4000, February 26, 2018. (Flash90)

Mandelblit’s decision broke with the conclusions of State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan in several instances, by opting to press lesser charges against some of the suspects, or to drop charges all together.

Netanyahu has denied any wrongdoing in all three cases, and has alleged that the investigations against him are a “witch hunt” involving the left, the media and the police relentlessly pressuring a “weak” attorney general.

After being notified of an impending indictment, suspects are usually provided with the full case materials against them. However, according to Justice Ministry sources, Netanyahu’s defense team asked that case files be withheld until after the April 9 elections, reasoning they could be used for political purposes and campaign propaganda.

Alan Dershowitz, a prominent American lawyer, came to Netanyahu’s defense earlier Thursday, publishing an open letter to Mandelblit in which he warned that an indictment against the prime minister ahead of elections would undermine the democratic process. “I’m very worried for freedom of the press and freedom of government in Israel if they start indicting people for trying to get good coverage from the media,” Dershowitz also told Army Radio, referencing Cases 2000 and 4000, which revolve around alleged illicit deals in which the prime minister allegedly offered favors in return for favorable media coverage. “I don’t know of any other country that has criminalized trying to get good coverage and make that a basis of bribery or any other corruption investigation.”

On Sunday, the State Comptroller’s Permits Committee rejected for the second time a request by Netanyahu to fund his legal defense in the three cases via payments from wealthy associates, including his cousin.

Ehud Olmert, the country’s first former premier to serve prison time, stepped down from office in 2008 during the investigation into him, but before the intention to file charges was announced. He served 16 months in prison on corruption offenses and was released in July 2017.

You can bet our very own Hadji is neck deep in this shit and giggling like a little schoolgirl.

Netanyahu, unfazed by indictment, vows to be prime minister for years
Netanyahu on corruption charges: "This house of cards will collapse."

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-N...ls-cases-fake-582085

nly the voters will decide if I remain in office, not bureaucrats, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after Attorney-General Avihai Mandelblit announced on Thursday his intention to indict the premier on multiple charges of fraud and breach of trust, and one bribery charge, pending a hearing.


Netanyahu gave a very political speech from the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, focusing on the timing of the charges and arguing that they are meant to bring down the Right, repeatedly using the phrase “witch hunt.”

The prime minister opened by talking about his recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and comments US President Trump made overnight Wednesday, calling him tough and smart. He argued that he and the Likud have made Israel stronger than ever before.


"These connections are not to be taken for granted," Netanyahu said. "The Left knows they cannot compete with these achievements in the voting booth, so they put massive pressure on the attorney general to indict even though there is nothing, in order to influence the elections and put the Left in charge."


Netanyahu expressed confidence that most voters won't be influenced by the announcement, but said that even if it influences a few not to vote for him, it will bring the Left to power.


"I've never seen the Left so happy...They're sewing suits" to wear because they expect to become ministers, Netanyahu said.


As for the timing, 40 days before the April 9 election, Netanyahu said "every citizen knows this is outrageous and meant to bring down the Right.


"I am not being given the chance to disprove [the accusations] until after the election - and I will disprove them all," he added.


Netanyahu appeared to choke up with tears when he talked about the "seven circles of hell" his family has been through in recent years. He specifically referred to an accusation that he tried to have an article about his son dating a non-Jewish Norwegian woman removed from Walla, saying: "What father wouldn't defend his son?"

"It all began when they accused my wife and me of six cases of bribery. It's a house of cards that will collapse. Five of those six cases already fell apart, and the rest will too. They'll be like dust. They won't be remembered," he said.


The prime minister also referred to a letter from American jurist and Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, arguing that the charges dealing with relations between politicians and the medai are a danger to democracy and that there is no precedent in the world of positive media coverage being considered a bribe.


"There are 2.5 friendly articles on the Walla website in a sea of articles," Netanyahu said. "I am the most vilified person in the history of Israeli media."


"If positive media coverage is a bribe, why didn't they even consider investigating Yair Lapid?" he asked.


"There are rules for everyone, and other rules for Netanyahu and the Likud. This whole house of cards will fall," he said.


Netanyahu said he has "the strength to stand up to this witch hunt" thanks to his family, his knowledge that the accusations are baseless, and support from Israelis.


"I plan to continue serving you as prime minister for many more years, but it's up to you, not the bureaucrats or the commentators and reporters. Don't let the witch hunt confuse you," Netanyahu concluded.

I know nothing about Israeli domestic politics.

I do know that Netanyahu is a great leader & man.

I’m betting this is the Jewish version of “Russian collusion”.

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Originally posted by maximus_flavius:

I’m betting this is the Jewish version of “Russian collusion”.

Bingo.

The Israelis have form for indicting, and actually sending to prison, even top politicians. As mentioned in some current reports, Netanyahu's predecessor Ehud Olmert was also the subject of long investigations over pretty much the same charges. Back then in 2008 Netanyahu called for Olmert to resign and, after he did, have snap elections, which eventually brought him to power. In 2014 Olmert was sentenced to 19 months of prison, of which he served 16.

Additionally in 2007, serving Israeli president Moshe Katsav was charged with raping and sexually harrassing up to ten former female staffers. While an attempt to impeach him failed, he resigned two weeks before his term's regular end. In 2011 he was sentenced to seven years, of which he served five.

This has been going on for years now.

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This has been going on for years now.

Some Americans are trying to Trump that.

I'm sure the Israeli Left is thick as thieves with this as Bibi is basically the Trump of Israel.

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I do know that Netanyahu is a great leader & man.
I’m betting this is the Jewish version of “Russian collusion”.

Yep.
The left is going after him just like the "deep state" is going after Trump.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by maximus_flavius:

I’m betting this is the Jewish version of “Russian collusion”.

Bingo.

I agree! Typical liberal BS where they try to get rid of a conservative opponent because they know they cannot win an election.

Judicial Watch says the documents reveal former President Barack Obama’s State Department meddled in the foreign elections of Israel, Russia, Macedonia, Albania, Libya, Egypt and Great Britain.
“The list you gave was the foreign policy of the Obama administration,” Farrell said on “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” referring to the outlined list of countries.
The documents obtained by Judicial Watch under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State and USAID reveal instances where USAID funds were funneled through that agency’s Civil Society Project to back Soros’s left-wing Open Society Foundations.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/po...tions-judicial-watch


intervened to help Trump win.
John McLaughlin, an American who served as Netanyahu's pollster in the 2015 elections, said after Obama's election to the US media that Obama had intervened in the Israeli election campaign, accusing him of uniting the Arab parties and contributing to the V15 that worked to replace the government.

http://www.israelnationalnews....ews/News.aspx/249070

The State Department paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers grants to an Israeli group that used the money to build a campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in last year’s Israeli parliamentary elections, a congressional investigation concluded Tuesday.
Some $350,000 was sent to OneVoice, ostensibly to support the group’s efforts to back Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement negotiations. But OneVoice used the money to build a voter database, train activists and hire a political consulting firm with ties to President Obama’s campaign — all of which set the stage for an anti-Netanyahu campaign, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said in a bipartisan staff report.
In one stunning finding, the subcommittee said OneVoice even told the State Department’s top diplomat in Jerusalem of its plans in an email, but the official, Consul General Michael Ratney, claims never to have seen them.

/multimedia/collection/obamas-biggest-white-house-fails/

He said he regularly deleted emails with large attachments — a striking violation of open-records laws for a department already reeling from former Secretary Hillary Clinton’s handling of official government records.
Mr. Netanyahu survived the election, and the U.S. spending was not deemed illegal because the State Department never put any conditions on the money. Investigators also said OneVoice didn’t turn explicitly political until days after the grant period ended.

https://www.washingtontimes.co...oney-oust-netanyahu/

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The left is going after him just like the "deep state" is going after Trump.

Now if the left is using bribery charges to go after Netanyahu, who got into power in elections he demanded after his predecessor stepped down over bribery charges like Netanyahu previously demanded him to, does this mean that Netanyahu is ... a leftist and going after himself now?

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Olmert: I have no intention at all of resigning

PM pleads with Kadima MKs to give him the benefit of the doubt; says he'll give his side of the story soon.

By GIL STERN STERN HOFFMAN, Herb Keinon / May 28, 2008 21:30

https://www.jpost.com/Israel/O...-at-all-of-resigning

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Netanyahu: Under no circumstances will I resign

Netanyahu's Likud party threatened that Mandelblit will be attacked mercilessly if he publishes his decision before the elections.

By Sara Rubenstein / December 27, 2018 07:34

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-N...f-Im-indicted-575549

How Netanyahu Beat Obama


On March 3, 2015, Benjamin Netanyahu took a major gamble. Two weeks removed from Israel’s election day, sagging polls showed the prime minister narrowly behind the opposition Zionist Union. For the first time in a long while, it seriously looked like Netanyahu might lose—which made his presence in a foreign country, an ostensible break from the campaign trail, all the riskier.
That day, late in the morning, Netanyahu became only the second foreigner to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress three times—the other being Sir Winston Churchill. But unlike Churchill, Netanyahu arrived for this third speech without an invitation from the sitting president and fully intending to denounce the administration’s signature foreign policy priority at the time: the Iran nuclear deal....

...The entire trip was something of a diplomatic slap in the face. President Barack Obama pointedly did not meet with Netanyahu during his March 2015 stay in Washington. House Speaker John Boehner had invited the prime minister to speak before Congress without first informing the White House, and Netanyahu had accepted the invitation in the same manner. His address before the House chamber had one major theme—branding the product of the Obama-backed nuclear negotiations with Iran as a “very bad deal”—and one clear goal: giving his own reelection efforts a jump-start in the closing weeks of the election.

In the end, Netanyahu’s speech did not prevent the implementation of the nuclear deal with Iran; Obama won that fight. But it did help him recover in the polls and, against all odds, win another term as Israel’s prime minister—a victory that ensured Netanyahu’s political career would outlive that of his American rival.


Netanyahu outmaneuvered Obama. But Netanyahu’s success wasn’t entirely a product of his own achievement—much of it was the result of Obama’s self-inflicted damage.

Netanyahu understood that Obama was merely dangling his feet in the water at the prospect of a peace process, and was not risking any substantial political capital. The Obama administration made lots of noise but took no real action until it was too late. It was a route Obama took up into his last full month in office, when, on Dec. 23, 2016, the U.N. Security Council voted to condemn Israeli settlements. Rather than using its power to veto the resolution, the U.S. abstained—a classic case of taking action at a point when it no longer much mattered.
With the Obama era now over, Netanyahu knows that he has seen off yet another political rival and has emerged with a deep understanding of the importance of tactical maneuvers and political trade-offs in order to achieve his major strategic goals and aims. And while nobody is entirely sure what challenges President Donald Trump will bring to the Middle East, Netanyahu understands that he beat Obama on the most important issue, Palestine. He sees the fruits of his success whenever he travels across the West Bank in his helicopter: Jewish settlements scattered across the land, and the chances of a viable Palestinian state receding by the day. For many observers around the world, this is an unacceptable reality; for Netanyahu, it represents evidence of a mission accomplished



https://www.politico.com/magaz...n-transformed-214779

They're acting like democrats.

Looks like BiBi is going to pull out a victory in today's election.

Must be driving the Democrats here nuts.

Link

MIGA!