Four Years Of Deception FINALLY Catches Up With Netanyahu!

Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu has finally run out of time and trainers, he can run no more and lo, he finds himself at the courthouse to finally face up to those corruption charges he’s spent 4 years running away from, using the pandemic, not to mention the matter of a certain invasion and the committing of atrocities in Gaza, together with the wider war that followed. He figured the nation being at war would keep him safe from the law, place him above the law in effect, but that hasn’t worked.
Reverting to type he calls the entire affair a witch-hunt, you could have turned this into a drinking game he’s so predictable in his responses, now choosing to directly attack the judges, the police and the media who as he sees it are all out to get him. These are the actions of a sociopath with such a massive ego and inflated sense of self importance, not to mention having made a career out of playing the victim, that he’s going to try every trick going to make out that he’s hard done by, when really he just thinks he’s above the law. Here’s hoping due judicial process indicting the sitting Prime Minister deals with Netanyahu and by association Israel and it’s ongoing war plans if his removal ends up being ordered.
Right, so for the first time in Israel’s not at all that long history, despite their claims to the lands they occupy, a sitting Prime Minister is being prosecuted for corruption.
Benjamin Netanyahu has been stringing this process out since 2019, when he was brought up on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, these charges having been divvied up against him across three separate cases, the imaginatively titled Case 1000, Case 2000 and Case 4000.
By way of a catch up if you aren’t familiar with the charges Netanyahu faces, Case 1000 alleges that Netanyahu and his wife Sara received gifts from an Israeli Hollywood producer called Arnon Milchan and an Australian billionaire and Israeli citizen called James Packer. These gifts it is alleged were given in exchange for political favours, so the charges here are of fraud and breach of trust, which under Israeli law carry prison sentences of three years. Milchan has already testified in the case and confirmed he gave Netanyahu gifts in June of 2020.
Case 2000 accuses Netanyahu of negotiating with one of Israel’s daily newspapers, Yedioth Aronoth for favourable coverage, in exchange for legislating to inhibit and slow the growth of a rival publication. This also charges Netanyahu therefore with fraud and breach of trust.
Case 4000 is perhaps the biggest one in terms of potential prison time as in this case Netanyahu is accused of again trying to negotiate positive coverage for himself and his wife, by offering regulatory favours to Israel’s biggest Telecommunications company, Bezeq Telecom Israel and to do so via a news website controlled by the Chairman of Bezeq Telecom. Bezeq already in trouble as it happens as I covered in another video as the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund has spent the last 12 months ridding itself of tens millions of dollars worth of shares in Bezeq as their Council on Ethics ruled them to be unethical to possess and if that isn’t an indictment of Israel’s actions in Gaza and beyond I’m not sure what is. This case also carries charges of breach of trust and fraud, but also bribery in this instance, with bribery carrying a sentence of up to 10 years in prison or a fine, which is weird, but there we are.
It isn’t clear that if found guilty of all of these charges in all of these cases that Netanyahu could be sentenced to serve jail time concurrently or consecutively, but The Cradle has stated he faces up to 10 years in prison, so consecutively seems to be the thinking.
So Netanyahu’s trial began on Tuesday, he’d managed to wangle and 8 day delay to his trial after trying for 10 weeks based on a lack of preparedness due to the war. Now there’s an excuse that he could keep making the more war he ends up making and evidently the judges thought so too, because they refused to have a bar of it and so finally on Tuesday, Netanyahu turns up to court and he had to make the whole show all about himself didn’t he? Press conference. When does the person on trial call a press conference, well, he had to make sure everyone heard that this was a witch hunt didn’t he, it’s his go to response every time he is pointed at in the name of blame. This happened on Monday, a televised address to the nation to plead his case to the court of public opinion, to try and swing matters to his side and I’m sat here thinking, it’s because you tried to dupe these people behind the scenes and raise positive coverage for yourself that you’re now facing charges of corruption and so at the last minute he just ditches the pretence and goes straight to the cameras himself anyway! Why not just do this to start with? More ineffective I daresay when people don’t trust him even his own nation, but his ego wouldn’t let him go down without trying to influence those watching the proceedings.
Well, it might have blown in his face slightly. His critics came out of the woodwork, from opposition members of the Israeli Knesset, slamming Netanyahu for such self serving manoeuvres when the war in Gaza should be his priority, but lets face it, this war has done a wonderful job of stalling this trial for as long as it has, it is grinding Netanyahu’s gears no end that it hasn’t kept on working to keep him out of court, especially when he’s spent the last two years at least, since he cobbled together this far right coalition government of his, to undermine Israel’s judiciary as flawed and once again wailing he’s a victim of a corrupt legal system. He’s the longest serving Israeli Prime Minister ever lets not forget, if it was always so corrupt, why didn’t you fix it, or rather why didn’t you notice until they came for you and you suddenly realised you weren’t above the law? He even went so far as to try and get the Israeli security agency Shin Bet to put a stop to the proceedings arguing it was unsafe for him to be in any one place for any given length of time and even when he entered the court room on Tuesday his case seems to hinge upon prosecutors going after him as a person rather than seeking to prove a crime.
Also going against him is the fact that a fly on the wall documentary called The Bibi Files is airing during the trial, which contains interviews with others implicated or connected to Netanyahu and/or this corruption trial, as well as containing leaked footage of police interrogations of Netanyahu concerning these corruption allegations which have landed him in court, so that Monday night public broadcast had an enormous amount of heavy lifting to do and I can’t imagine it’s going to have helped much, just allowed his critics to point and jeer at his patheticness in the face of the law ostensibly catching up to him.
On top of that, there is the even more recent scandal involving the leaking of classified intelligence via his personal aide Eli Feldstein to German paper Bild and the right wing hack rag that is the UK’s Jewish Chronicle, intelligence that claimed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar planned to smuggle the Israeli hostages held in Gaza, allegedly with the intent they end up in Yemen or in Iran. The accusation now is that this fake intelligence as it was demonstrated to be, was leaked with Netanyahu’s knowledge so that goes against him as well and all of it can be seen as failed attempts to try and keep out of court, along with dragging the genocide in Gaza out and the fact he really has never put any real effort into rescuing hostages at all, those protesting outside the courthouse on Tuesday containing a number of family members still affected by this and where by luck and by his own judgement he’s managed to keep this corruption case stalled up until now, it has nevertheless caught up with him finally.
Three days of evidence are being given initially, so today being day three, Netanyahu’s own testimony though begins tomorrow, so whilst the charges have been laid out against him and the evidence of that presented, he hasn’t yet had his own say, but that’s coming tomorrow and I daresay that’ll be the really interesting performance in a case that is expected to take months, months where Netanyahu will no doubt continue to try and find ways to hold matters up.
He needs a distraction, he’s rather good at using distractions to cover up his actions elsewhere, as whilst our attention was diverted to Israel’s actions in Syria, their invasion, along with the fall of the Assad regime to Al-Qaeda leftovers, Israel ramped up their atrocities in Gaza once again, showing the danger of not keeping an eye on everything Israel is doing, a more and more difficult task, the wider Israel conducts its war.
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