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To: LindyBill who wrote (36606)	3/27/2004 4:48:39 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793677

I have never understood these charges, and the Israeli accounts aren't any clearer. Supposedly Richard Appel hired Gilad Sharon for some Vitamin P, as it's known in Israel (P for protectsia, which means about what it sounds like), for a Greek island real estate deal. But the deal never went through. So what can they prove against whom? It's exceedingly unlikely anybody said to Gilad, "Here, have a bribe and this is for your dad too", and Gilad said, "Here Dad, good news!". So how do they prove what against whom? You have to assume that the Sharons wouldn't be that dumb. So I don't get the scandal, but then, I don't get most Israeli corruption scandals. The impression I get is that corruption is quite widespread in Israel - after all, it's still a quasi-socialist system with an awful lot of patronage to spread out from government - and that politicians are always being indicted for practices that are normal to everybody else.