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Politics : GENEVA ACCORD
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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (178)1/23/2004 2:28:34 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 190
 
These corruption probes are a perma-feature of Israeli politics. Barak and Netanyahu had theirs too. My suspicion is that if the prosecutor had the stuff to actually make an indictment, we would be seeing an indictment. He doesn't, so he's waving the possibility about to creat maximum damage. This just gets more attention than Bibi's or Ehud's cases because the BBC et. al. hate Arik so much more.

I don't know the details of it, but it sounds an odd case: Mr. Appel supposedly hired Gilad Sharon as a lobbyist, to further a Greek island real estate deal (how much control do Israeli officials have over Greek islands?), which never actually materialized. Hello? Where do you find a bribe in that? I thought bribery cases were nearly impossible anyway, because anyone big enough to get one would also be smart enough never to simply take the money. This is certainly as confusing as trying to figure out what the Whitewater charges against Clinton were supposed to be.
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