Nailing a war criminal for corruption would be as delightfully ironic as nailing Capone for tax stuff.
Well, then we should probably nail every Western leader in the past decades for corruption if we want to achieve peak irony. Most of them, after all, commited much worse "war crimes" than Netanyahu did.
Also, I'm not yet ready to rejoice about his downfall- I'm waiting for an actual indictment, then I can be cautiously optimistic. We sorely need change from this disgusting first family.
Did you read what Netanyahu called the reports? He pulled a Trump and called the reports about his alleged corruption as 'fake news'. The Trump-Netanyahu bromance is strong after the unprecedented US ass kissing of Israel sadly.
I don't think you really get just how much "US ass kissing" was needed to repair that relationship after Obama's unprecedented betrayal.
I'm not sure why USA needed to mend anything with their uppity Middle Eastern client state.
You wouldn't.
You mean because I'm not a plastic Israeli who live in a country where you won't suffer the consequence of Bibi being a incompetent populist, but instead citizen in a small country a little smaller in population than Israel, and with a economy around the same size (except for somewhat healthier and with a bigger and more diversified export sector with greater focus on high tech products) as Israel. Who have a understanding of the importance of the government being on friendly terms with our main allies, even when these are lead by governments we dislike?
Yes Bibi poisoning the relationship with American governments aren't a life and death danger for Israel, as the Israeli nuclear arsenal protect Israel from destruction. But the tech sector Israel are so proud of depoend on favoured import and investment policies from USA, if a American government decides to treat Israel as any other foreign country, the Israeli industry would suffer, not so much in the short term, but in the long term as their R&D will slowly deterioate.
As such the main foreign policy goal outside Israeli survival should be to keep friendly with any American government no matter what party it belong to. Israel have enjoyed a periode where both American parties are friendly to Israel, and any competent PM of a small state like Israel should understand how important it is to keep this status quo going.
Especially because both parties have a strong anti-Israeli faction, which to Israeli luck have been kept away from power (No Obama wasn't one of them).
At the same time the support to Israel build on a weak fundament, broadly among the Democrats it build on strong Jewish presense in the party, but Bibi have done his best to alienate this group. While among the Republicans it build on Christian Millennialism, a faction wich have grown weaker and those support could change based on change of theological focus among the Religious Right.
