Tel-Chai Nation: Ehud Barak tried to influence state attorney in trumped-up case against Netanyahu

It turns out the former prime minister Ehud Barak, still apparently trying to be a bad influence as a leftist, tried intimidating the state attorney over the petty case against Benjamin Netanyahu:

Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak attacked Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit on Saturday, claiming he was whitewashing criminal investigations of the Netanyahu family.

"Mandelblit is inclined not to file an indictment against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu based on Case 2000, contrary to the position of senior Justice Ministry officials, although the decision could still change," Channel 13 news reported on Friday.

If Mandelblit tries to close Case 2000 – which involves an alleged quid pro quo agreement between Netanyahu and Yediot Aharonot publisher Arnon Mozes – contrary to the recommendation of the State Attorney’s Office and police investigators, Barak said, “[and] if the High Court does not intervene, a state commission of inquiry will be required.”

The former prime minister also called Mandelblit “unworthy,” “a disgrace,” and concluded by calling upon the attorney-general to “come to [his] senses.”

Barak has publicly attacked Mandelblit since the Harpaz Affair, which went on for more than four years. That case was an alleged 2010 plot by Boaz Harpaz to illegally undermine then-defense minister Barak’s choice of Yoav Galant to succeed Gabi Ashkenazi as IDF chief of staff, as part of a battle between Barak and Ashkenazi that allegedly involved spying and spreading misinformation about the other.

The Likud filed a complaint Saturday night against Barak for disruption of legal proceedings, claiming his comments were a clear attempt at extortion.

What's particularly laughable is the allegations Netanyahu tried to assist Mozes in shutting down Israel HaYom, a paper that happens to support Netanyahu and also thought the allegations were ridiculous, and Barak actually upholds those too, despite how flimsy they are. And what are the chances Barak was involved in spying and misinformation? Well now something serious has come up, and Barak would do well to take responsibility, apologize, and remove himself from all proceedings altogether.

And that's not all the meddling Barak's done. There's also his involvement in getting Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid to join together for the election campaign:

Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak and his staff could be behind a campaign that urged the center-left parties to unite and run on a joint ticket in the April 9 election, according to a document revealed by Channel 13 on Saturday evening.

The campaign slogan was "Bli ichud, hakol avud," a play on words that can mean either "Without unity, all is lost" or "Without unity, the vote is lost."

The document, which was signed by Barak confidant attorney Oshi Elmaliach – who also oversaw the nonprofit group National Responsibility, which was behind the campaign – states that "With the announcement by Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid, Bogi [Moshe] Ya'alon, Gabi Ashkenazi, and others that they will be running on a single list, we hereby inform you that a very successful campaign has come to an end and [that] we are ceasing all activity.

"Generally speaking and as required by laws on party funding … continued activity following the announcement by most actors that they are running together could lead to needless restrictions on party funding. Our mission is complete and ended the moment a major merger was created on the Center-Left," the document states.

Barak's staff issued a response to the Channel 13 report: "In the past two and a half years, Barak has worked extensively, sometimes alone, to bring together a fighting opposition. In recent months, Barak has done a lot of work to achieve mergers on the Center-Left.

It's clear Barak's seeking revenge against the right-wing for achieving successes he failed to obtain, and wants to damage Israel's stability as he did years before. This is very disturbing, and indicates that, at 70 years of age or so, he's decided to make this his idea of a "mission".

Labels: Israel, Knesset, Moonbattery, political corruption

Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:

The security of Israel is not assured.

Israel is the only nation in the world whose
very existence is threatened by enemies,
external and internal, supported by a majority
of the United Nations.

It is the only nation in the world whose
national movement, Zionism, has been declared
a form of racism by the United Nations.

It is the only nation in the world threatened
by genocidal war, the purpose of which is not
military victory alone, but extermination.

The genocide of Israel’s Jewish population
– a population roughly the size of the Polish
Jewish population at the beginning of World War II
– is not an unrealistic nightmare.

Nothing today prevents it other than Israel’s
military superiority over the combined Arab armies
and terrorist organizations. If the Arab armies
and terrorists were capable of defeating Israel,
destroying its Jewish population, and “reclaiming”
ALL of current Israel, there can be little
doubt that they would try to do so.

Indeed, if any Arab leader were militarily capable
of destroying Israel, but refrained from doing so,
he would be replaced by someone who would at least try.

...Although there are some moderate voices within
the Palestinian and Arab movements, these voices
are listened to only because Israel is too strong
today to be defeated totally.

SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
(chapter 7, page 247) published in year 1991
by Little Brown & Co ISBN: 9780316181372 ISBN: 0316181374

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Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:

“Too few of Israel’s critics seem to understand the
Jewish determination to avoid another Holocaust,
this one in Israel. Too few understand why Israel
cannot and should not trust its survival to
nations that stood idly by while millions
of innocent Jews were destroyed.

Too many nations seem willing to have Israel
take risks for an uncertain regional peace
that they themselves are unwilling to take
for a more important world peace.”

SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
(chapter 7, page 248) published in year 1991
by Little Brown & Co ISBN: 9780316181372 ISBN: 0316181374

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Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:

“...if Israel’s military power were ever
to be diminished to the point that the
combined armies of the Arab world could
defeat it, I believe there would be
another Holocaust.

No Arab dictator who could defeat Israel
and forebore from doing so would survive
the continuing frenzy for jihad
[Islamic holy war against non-Muslims].

And an Arab military victory over Israel
– unlike the Israeli victories over the Arabs
– would not result in a mere occupation
or even detention of Israeli Jews.

It would result in a mass slaughter,
designed to rid Arab holy land of Jewish intruders.
Most Jews know this, though they rarely speak of it openly."

SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
(chapter epilogue, page 352) published in year 1991,
by Little Brown & Co ISBN: 9780316181372 ISBN: 0316181374

Posted by Mr. Cohen | 2/24/2019 09:03:00 AM

Mr. Patrick Condell said:

“…if the Israelis were to lay down their
weapons, they would be massacred
- men, women and children alike."

SOURCE: Why I Support Israel
A YouTube video by Pat Condell, 2014 June 18
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHC8KC5cLs8

complete transcript of this YouTube video:
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/09/why-i-support-israel-by-pat-condell.html

MICROBIOGRAPHY:

Mr. Pat Condell is an atheist, who
was born in Ireland around 1950 CE,
and raised in England as a Roman Catholic,
and educated in Church of England schools.

He has no Jewish ancestors and no religious
beliefs that might cause him to favor Jews.

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Mr. Patrick Condell said:

“It is often said, because it is true,
that if the Arabs laid down their weapons,
there would be peace; [but] if the Jews
laid down their weapons, they would be
massacred, because the Arabs
(that’s the Muslims Arabs for all you
hair-splitters out there) don’t want peace,
they want the Jews DEAD.”

SOURCE: Useful Idiots for Palestine
a YouTube video by Mr. Pat Condell, 2011 November 4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeGYAfh9A1k

complete transcript of this YouTube video:
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/09/useful-idiots-for-palestine.html

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Professor Abraham H. Miller said:

“AIPAC and other pro-Israel organizations exist,
in part, to ensure that Israel maintains a competitive
military and technological edge so that the
Arabs don’t overrun it and commit the
second Holocaust they repeatedly promise…”

SOURCE:
Progressive calls for Jews to support Rep. Ilhan Omar
by Abraham H. Miller 2019 February 20
www.jns.org/opinion/progressive-calls-for-jews-to-support-rep-ilhan-omar/

MICROBIOGRAPHY: Abraham H. Miller
is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science,
University of Cincinnati, and a distinguished fellow with
the news and public-policy group Haym Salomon Center.