Bibi Netanyahu indicted! (One of the Trump-Kushner crime family's closest friends!)

[ArtTownsend]

Israel's Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced Thursday that he was indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.

Netanyahu has previously denied any wrongdoing and has said he is the victim of a politically orchestrated "witch-hunt" by the media and the left.

It comes while Netanyahu is serving as Israel's caretaker prime minister after he failed to cobble together a government last month.

Netanyahu had hoped to pass legislation that would prevent him from being indicted but has been unable to do so because he failed to form Israel's next government following the Sept. 17 election.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/11/21/israeli-pm-netanyahu-indicted-on-charges-of-fraud-bribery.html

I’ll never forget the blatant disrespect he showed President Obama (with the close cooperation of the Republican Congress of course), how he did his best to sabotage the Iran nuclear deal, or the ways in which he interfered on Trump’s behalf in the 2016 US presidential election (it wasn’t just Russia!), or the blatant Islamophobia he stoked in both Israel and the United States (and Europe) even as he cozied up to Saudi Arabia (!), the UAE, and the brutal military dictator Sisi in Egypt, the extreme white nationalists he also cozied up to in Europe (Viktor Orban in Hungary, for example) - not to mention, the white nationalist-infested Trump administration here in the US - and, of course, the ways in which he used the Israeli Far Right to his own shameless, cynical political advantage as he expanded Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories in defiance of international law, the “Jewish nation-state” law, all the ways he made treatment of Palestinians worse, the media crackdown he intiated in Israel, the open indulging in far-right conspiracy theories regarding George Soros (!!!!) and other “self-hating Jews”, all of the ways he has made Israel worse off as a country.

Oh, and last but certainly not least, back in the 1990s, Bibi absolutely exploited and stoked the anger and hatred against then-Israeli PM Rabin after the signing of the Oslo Accords - and Rabin was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli extremist. Rabin’s own family holds Bibi at least partially responsible.

The indictment couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

[dewsgirl]

1. That's the thing about witch hunts...sometimes they are successful.

[triron]

4. Ha ha.

[wryter2000]

2. There is justice somewhere in the world

Just not here

[triron]

3. Trump should too!

[Gothmog]

5. From Prof. Hasen

Link to tweet

[flotsam]

6. Why does it seem like all over the world

Liberals engage in witch hunts and nowhere do they seem to come home empty handed?

[ArtTownsend]

7. Original post edited. I'd encourage people to check out my...editorializing.

[UpInArms]

8. From the authoritarian handbook:

politically orchestrated "witch-hunt" by the media and the left.

To which I respond with a firm STFU, you criminal POS.

[ArtTownsend]

9. Agreed. Criminal POS!

[Norbert]

10. Any bets on when tRump will say "I don't really know him."

[RainCaster]

11. So Israel has a 'witch hunt' as well?

I could imagine DFT spewing his support of Bibi.

Sigh

[ArtTownsend]

12. Oh he will. He's very exposed re: Bibi crimes, and Ivanka and Jared even more so.

And of course, there’s Sheldon Adelson, who’s not just Trump’s biggest donor, but one of the biggest donors to Republicans in general and likely the single wealthiest and most prolific donor to extreme pro-Israel/Israeli Far Right causes, including all the illegal settlements.

There are a lot of people who have a lot to lose if/when Bibi is locked up and the full extent of his crimes and corruption are exposed, and their overlap with important Republican figures and people in the Trump administration, including the President and his family, is pretty fucking yuge.