{"id":179422,"date":"2018-02-13T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/02\/13\/pass-the-popcorn-16\/"},"modified":"2018-02-13T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T01:19:00","slug":"pass-the-popcorn-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/02\/13\/pass-the-popcorn-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass the Popcorn"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>It’s taken a while, but Israeli police have finally recommended that Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted for corruption<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Israeli police announced on Tuesday that there was sufficient evidence indicating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> took bribes in two separate cases and acted “against public interests.” <\/p>\n

The two cases are the so-called Case 1000<\/a> \u2013 in which Netanyahu is suspected of accepting lavish gifts from wealthy benefactors in return for advancing their interests \u2013 and Case 2000,<\/a> which alleges that Netanyahu tried to strike a deal that would have provided him with positive coverage in Israel’s second largest newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, in exchange for hurting its free rival, Israel Hayom. <\/p>\n

According to the police, in Case 1000, Netanyahu received champagne, cigars, jewelry and clothing, by demand and systematically, valued at over one million shekels (around $280,000). The gifts he received from the Israeli-American Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan increased significantly once Netanyahu was elected prime minister.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously, after spending almost $3000.00 on “Ice Cream” in 2013<\/a>, criminal profligacy should surprise no one.<\/p>\n

As a supporter of Israel, I consider Netanyahu to be a bigger threat to the safety and security of the Jewish state than Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, so I pleased at this news.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s taken a while, but Israeli police have finally recommended that Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted for corruption: The Israeli police announced on Tuesday that there was sufficient evidence indicating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took bribes in two separate cases and acted “against public interests.” The two cases are the so-called Case 1000 \u2013 in which …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,488,374,486],"class_list":["post-179422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-israel","tag-politics","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}