Busted: Netanyahu caught on tape offering to cripple paper's competitor for favorable coverage
Source: RawStory
DAVID EDWARDS
08 JAN 2017 AT 09:15 ET
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly been caught on tape negotiating to limit the circulation of the countrys largest newspaper in exchange for favorable coverage from its top competitor.
Haaretz reported that the tape is the centerpiece of a corruption investigation called Case 2000.
The tape is said to have captured Netanyahu negotiating with Yedioth Ahronoth owner Noni Mozes. Netanyahu allegedly offered to suppress the circulation of Israel Hayom, a pro-Netanyahu paper owned by billionaire Sheldon Adelson, if Mozes agreed to help the prime minister get reelected. The Yedioth Ahronoths advertising revenue has reportedly taken a hit in recent years due to the popularity of Israel Hayom, which is free.
Netanyahu was questioned by investigators last week is a different case over gifts he received.
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PatSeg
(47,421 posts)Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Republicans and Netanyahu both place their countries citizens future best interests last & personal wealth building & wars first.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)Don't blame us all for that group.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)And Netanyahu has taken advantage of that?
An added Ps: How much will Adelson appreciate being burned when he has moved heaven & earth to keep BN in office?
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)He doesn't need the old "Adelson & RW gang" type of support or reputation tarnishing.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)PatSeg
(47,421 posts)how often that thought pops into my head. I watch some of these greedy assholes on TV and remind myself, they can't live forever. Sadly, some of them outlive their more principled adversaries, which I find perplexing and frustrating.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)lark
(23,099 posts)The world would be a better place absent little murderer at center stage. Can't wait until it's "our" murderer who is caught red handed. The day drumpf takes office he's violated the law over Hotel in DC and needs to be taken to court immediately.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)lark
(23,099 posts)groundloop
(11,518 posts)And even if they did somehow find the intestinal fortitude to do what's right that would leave us with Pence who is every bit as bad as tRump.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)he signed on knowing he's gonna be President one day.
You heard it hear first!
StealthIL
(5 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)deplorable things
lark
(23,099 posts)He will be sued in court in a district where the judge wasn't appointed by a repug and he will lose. Repugs will then have choice of impeaching him, a convicted criminal, or having a convicted criminal run the country. Don't think they would go for that. As long as the evidence is hidden, they can pretend he's OK. When he gets formally convicted and SCOTUS backs up the courts, think they will install Pence. He's as bad if not worse domestically, but he wont let PUtin run the show, so he won't be as bad internationally and we can survive until the next election. Pence would never win on his own.
Tommy2Tone
(1,307 posts)I loathe them equally.
Stuart G
(38,421 posts)blm
(113,053 posts)and its voters into doing his bidding.
Nitram
(22,794 posts)blm
(113,053 posts)Swings were being told by US media 24/7 in the last few weeks before election that there MUST be some truth to GOP congress' narrative that Clinton is corrupt and criminal as they devoted many hours of coverage where they repeated those empty charges, and then acted surprised afterwards when it turned out that none of the GOP's claims turned out to be true.
Nitram
(22,794 posts)did and said. Didn't make any difference.
blm
(113,053 posts)media had normalized Trump's stupidisms in the last few weeks, just as they did for W in 2000.
Time to face REALITY. Swings tend to go towards the end where the news they are hearing takes them in the last 2 weeks.
That is why Rove had Dept of Homeland Security issue a terror alert in 2004 and WH put out a video message from Bin Laden they were sitting on.
Mr blm worked for Knight-Ridder and McClatchy for many years - I know exactly why the news media DESERVES blame for elections when they elevate propaganda for Republicans and diminish the news that points to the facts.
JI7
(89,249 posts)And doesn't have as the control that putin does.
I'm hoping israel gets rid of him.
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Eugene
(61,881 posts)Bibi's lack of principles isn't a complete surprise,
but offering to screw over Sheldon Adelson takes
it to a new level.
Nitram
(22,794 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)you suck balls!
Might make a good cabinet pick for tRump.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Bonus points for pissing off one of your most rabid supporters!
TeamPooka
(24,223 posts)hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)As the Obama admin and intelligence community respond?