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« on: January 02, 2017, 02:37:10 PM »

Police investigators arrived at the official residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday evening to question him, indicating that Israel’s attorney general has upgraded a long-running graft inquiry into a criminal investigation

The Israeli news media has been awash in recent days with reports that a criminal investigation was coming, saying that Mr. Netanyahu is suspected, among other things, of having received illicit gifts and favors. On Monday evening, Channel 2 News showed images of a police car pulling up at the residence.

Local news outlets say the investigators are focused on two separate cases, one more serious than the other, but they have offered little detail on the more serious one.

The less weighty one, according to reports in the newspaper Haaretz and other outlets, concerns favors for Mr. Netanyahu, and possibly for members of his family, given by Israeli and foreign business executives. The Israeli police took testimony from Ronald S. Lauder, a conservative American businessman and philanthropist, and a close friend of Mr. Netanyahu’s, when he came to Israel in late September to attend the funeral of Shimon Peres, the former prime minister and president.

Since the 1990s, Mr. Netanyahu’s political career has been dogged by inquiries into his conduct, and that of people around him, though no charges have been filed against him. The inquiries have ranged from scandals involving travel expenses and garden furniture — the Netanyahus were suspected of having switched a new set bought for the prime minister’s official residence with an identical, old set in their private home in Caesarea — to a more recent one involving a billion-dollar deal with Germany for the acquisition of submarines.

That agreement came under scrutiny after it became known that Mr. Netanyahu’s personal lawyer also represents the Israeli agent of the German shipyard that builds the submarines, and other naval equipment purchased by Israel, giving rise to suspicion of a conflict of interest.
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« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2017, 02:57:12 PM »

He's been dogged by corruption allegations for decades now. If there's any substance to these, best to push him into resigning so the right wing can regroup for elections. There's a huge bench in Likud.
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« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2017, 02:58:51 PM »

He's been dogged by corruption allegations for decades now. If there's any substance to these, best to push him into resigning so the right wing can regroup for elections. There's a huge bench in Likud.

And that's why I think these ones aren't going very far either.   Plus, Trump will grant him asylum if he needs to run for it.  Wink
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« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2017, 04:03:22 PM »

Spineless AND corrupt. Nice addition.
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« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2017, 04:07:26 PM »

We have a general discussion thread for Israeli politics (not including Israeli-Palestinian dick contests) please don't open multiple threads
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« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2017, 06:12:00 PM »

Seems like Israel is as bad as New Jersey or Illinois with how many of its leaders end up behind bars for corruption.

If he (finally) goes, who's most likely to replace him?
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« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2017, 07:33:22 PM »

LOCK HIM UP!
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« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2017, 07:50:30 PM »

If he (finally) goes, who's most likely to replace him?

*insert right-wing demagogue/Netanyahu clone here*
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« Reply #8 on: January 02, 2017, 08:13:02 PM »

We have a general discussion thread for Israeli politics (not including Israeli-Palestinian dick contests) please don't open multiple threads
If we can get the retarded ignorant takes here and the informed posts in the regular thread that would be great. I'll just ignore this one.
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