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elleng

(136,055 posts)
Fri Mar 1, 2019, 01:03 PM Mar 2019

Time for Netanyahu to Go.

'Israel’s prime minister increasingly resembles America’s 37th president.

When the final chapter on Benjamin Netanyahu’s political life is written — and it may be a long time from now — he is likely to go down as the Richard Nixon of Israel: politically cunning, strategically canny, toxically flawed.

The flaws came further to light on Thursday when Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced that he would indict the prime minister on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. Netanyahu called the inquiry “a witch hunt” and accused Mandelblit of being “weak,” sounding (surely not by coincidence) just like Donald Trump on the subject of Jeff Sessions and the Russia investigation.

Israeli law allows Netanyahu to contest the indictment through a hearing, a process that could take as long as a year. He has no intention of resigning and hopes to win a fifth term when elections are held on April 9.

Perhaps he will. He shouldn’t.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/opinion/netanyahu-israel-indictment.html?

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Time for Netanyahu to Go. (Original Post) elleng Mar 2019 OP
Seconded. Scurrilous Mar 2019 #1
Past time. Waaayyy past time. yonder Mar 2019 #2
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