SO let's se if we have all of this clear.
The Israeli Minister of Finance is evidently a crook who stole oodles and got caught trying to transport a quarter million dollars in evidently criminal cash out of Poland. (Caught by the Poles!) And the Israeli media and police hush it up for ten years. Not a whisper in the press.
Then nary a day goes by without new information about Olmert's own criminality. The heads of the income tax administration get arrested for taking bribes. Haim Ramon gets convicted for sexual harassment but is still Olmert's choice to replace the current Minister of Finance when HE goes to prison. Ehud Barak, probably the most corrupt politician ever to head the Labor Party, is the leading contender to take it over again and has never been indicted for HIS many corrupt financial dealings. Amram Mitzna was never indicted for his dirty deals with oligarchs and just managed to hornswaggle the taxpayer into subsidizing housing in his new hangout Yeruham in enormous amounts. Half the mayors in Israel should be in prison for intentionally creating astronomical deficits that the Histadrut wants to dump on the taxpayer. A Labor Party Knesset Member gets drunk and beats up guards at a club.
The Olmert junta is trying to suppress information on its colossal failure in the war last summer. Maariv reveals that one of the katyusha missiles Ehud Barak placed in Lebanon landed smack in the middle of the Haifa refineries and only by divine intervention did not set the place ablaze, giving off poisonous gas. And the paper says there were OTHER hits still classified.
And after ALL of that, who is actually going to jail? Poor little Naomi Blumenthal.
Who? Naomi Blumenthal was a Knesset backbencher in the Likud. Frankly I never liked her and think she is a fool. However, she is also one of the politicians in Israel LEAST deserving of being imprisoned. Her heinous crime? At a Likud primaries evening vote, she paid for some hotel rooms for party central committee voters who lived too far to go home after the vote and who cast votes for the Likud slate composition.
It is not even clear that there is anything wrong with that. So Naomi just lost her last appeal and will do prison time to create the impression in the press that Israeli politicians are intolerant of criminality and lawbreaking.
The Israeli Minister of Finance is evidently a crook who stole oodles and got caught trying to transport a quarter million dollars in evidently criminal cash out of Poland. (Caught by the Poles!) And the Israeli media and police hush it up for ten years. Not a whisper in the press.
Then nary a day goes by without new information about Olmert's own criminality. The heads of the income tax administration get arrested for taking bribes. Haim Ramon gets convicted for sexual harassment but is still Olmert's choice to replace the current Minister of Finance when HE goes to prison. Ehud Barak, probably the most corrupt politician ever to head the Labor Party, is the leading contender to take it over again and has never been indicted for HIS many corrupt financial dealings. Amram Mitzna was never indicted for his dirty deals with oligarchs and just managed to hornswaggle the taxpayer into subsidizing housing in his new hangout Yeruham in enormous amounts. Half the mayors in Israel should be in prison for intentionally creating astronomical deficits that the Histadrut wants to dump on the taxpayer. A Labor Party Knesset Member gets drunk and beats up guards at a club.
The Olmert junta is trying to suppress information on its colossal failure in the war last summer. Maariv reveals that one of the katyusha missiles Ehud Barak placed in Lebanon landed smack in the middle of the Haifa refineries and only by divine intervention did not set the place ablaze, giving off poisonous gas. And the paper says there were OTHER hits still classified.
And after ALL of that, who is actually going to jail? Poor little Naomi Blumenthal.
Who? Naomi Blumenthal was a Knesset backbencher in the Likud. Frankly I never liked her and think she is a fool. However, she is also one of the politicians in Israel LEAST deserving of being imprisoned. Her heinous crime? At a Likud primaries evening vote, she paid for some hotel rooms for party central committee voters who lived too far to go home after the vote and who cast votes for the Likud slate composition.
It is not even clear that there is anything wrong with that. So Naomi just lost her last appeal and will do prison time to create the impression in the press that Israeli politicians are intolerant of criminality and lawbreaking.
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