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Proclaiming innocence, ex-Israeli PM goes to prison
AP Via Washington Post ^
| 02/15/2016
| Josef Federman 
Posted on 02/15/2016 5:27:13 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday began a 19-month prison sentence for bribery and obstruction of justice, defiantly proclaiming his innocence in a farewell video as he became the first Israeli premier to be placed behind bars.
His imprisonment capped a stunning fall from grace that ended Israelâs last serious round of peace efforts with the Palestinians and ushered in the era of Benjamin Netanyahu, a hardliner widely criticized in the region and around the world.
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To: Kid Shelleen
Netanyahu is the villain of the piece in this journalist's mind.
Too predictable.
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posted on
02/15/2016 5:28:44 PM PST
by
wideawake
To: wideawake
The Washington Post hates Israel.
To: Kid Shelleen
Interesting. Has an America president ever gone to jail for any crimes committed? I
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posted on
02/15/2016 5:39:18 PM PST
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
To: faithhopecharity
Not yet, but we can always hope...
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posted on
02/15/2016 5:49:43 PM PST
by
opus1
(i'm new... hi)
To: opus1
Indeed! We live for hope ...
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posted on
02/15/2016 6:08:32 PM PST
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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posted on
02/15/2016 6:11:52 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
To: MarvinStinson
No, more accurately is they despise Netanyahu.
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posted on
02/15/2016 6:15:03 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Secret Agent Man
No, more accurately, they have been trying to wipe out Israel for DECADES, LONG before Netayahu was head of Israel.
To: MarvinStinson
The Washington Post has been trying to wipe israel out for decades? The newspaper?
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posted on
02/15/2016 6:36:38 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Secret Agent Man
You should familiarize yourself with it.
Post reporter Glen Frankel won awards from Arab-American groups for his “balanced” reporting on Israel.
That was decades ago.
Glen Frankel was the first to push the “Apartheid” crap against Israel.
Nora Boustany pushed how dastardly mean Israel was to Lebanon at the very time Syria was occupying all of Lebanon.
The Post was a major pusher of Arafat and the lovely PLO.
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
His imprisonment capped a stunning fall from grace that ended Israel's last serious round of peace efforts with the Palestinians and ushered in the era of Benjamin Netanyahu, a hardliner widely criticized in the region and around the world.
AP, short for AgitProp.
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posted on
02/16/2016 5:18:47 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: faithhopecharity
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posted on
02/16/2016 5:22:27 AM PST
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
To: bert
Well, we live for hope — there’s always a first time -— ð
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posted on
02/16/2016 5:58:00 AM PST
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
To: SunkenCiv
AP, short for AgitProp.
or Arabist Propoganda
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posted on
02/16/2016 4:06:57 PM PST
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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