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>>The case revolves around suspicions that confidants of Netanyahu promoted regulations worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the Bezeq telecom company in ex
by onetimemanytime 8y ago
>>The case revolves around suspicions that confidants of Netanyahu promoted regulations worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the Bezeq telecom company in exchange for positive coverage of the prime minister on Bezeq's subsidiary news website, Walla.
If true, lifetime ban from politics and 20 years in jail. This is messing with the core of democracy--and by using state /people's money. Those hundreds of millions in "gifts" are a cost to Israeli people.
- smsm42 8y agoWait, isn't that what every populist politician doing every day - doing something beneficial to an interest group X in exchange for being praised by this interest group and thus raising his chances of being elected again? If a politician recommends a subsidy to the solar industry, knowing he would be positively covered in New York Times and MSNBC, or, alternatively, proposes an increased military budget, knowing Fox News and Rush Limbaugh would praise him for that - is that something that one has to be jailed for? I am afraid if we'd do that then it'd make most sense to just convert the Capitol Hill to a jail, and the same with every state legislature, because everybody there would be jailed anyway.