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> How’s Netanyahu’s corruption trial going? Curious how that timing works out, haven’t heard much about since Israel started leveling Gaza… It's been going pre
by nolongerthere 2y ago
> How’s Netanyahu’s corruption trial going? Curious how that timing works out, haven’t heard much about since Israel started leveling Gaza…
It's been going pretty poorly actually as the defense actually had time to build a case and the prosecution has been shown to be purely politically motivated with very flimsy evidence such as "he didn't say it but his eyes implied it". Basically there isn't a case and it turns out that he's about as guilty as your average politician in any western country.
Which is... kinda guilty but also so is everyone... so if you're gonna treat him like enemy number one for accepting gifts from long time friends, then to actually make it fair you'd need to basically take out the entire elite-class in the entire western world in a french style revolution. Obviously there's no appetite for that, and all the people who will say "yea lets do that" don't actually think they'll be expected to follow through on dropping the guillotine or axe on any one's neck. So can comfortably pretend that they want "justice" when really all they want is their political rivals removed from power.
Which is fine, but don't pretend you're actually looking to root out corruption, as we saw with trump. Both sides were only willing to call out the other side's president for being careless with classified documents, while making every excuse for their own political leaders "mishaps".