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Interesting timing…
Is it a coincidence that Shin Bet is investigating Netanyahu and his family for bribery and corruption, and that the destruction of Gaza just began again over the weekend?*
A remarkable documentary entitled, The Bibi Files, may help you decide that.
For unknown reasons, you have to actually watch the trailer on YouTube. (Just click on the “Watch on YouTube” in the box.)
You can watch the film HERE and you can read the latest article on the controversy in Israel HERE.
As with current events in America, the judicial branch of the government is pushing back on Netanyahu’s actions. Netanyahu is hinting that he will ignore the courts decisions.
That sounds familiar too.
He’s seeking the dismissal of Israel’s Attorney General as well.
As in America before the re-election of Donald Trump, Netanyahu is actually on trial in three separate corruption cases right now.
I think this is an important film which helps us understand not only what’s challenging democracy in Israel right now, but which also has remarkable resemblances to the authoritarian drift in the U.S.
Anything that wounds one of the strongest democracies in the world has the potential to wound all democracies.
*(More than 50,000 people have been killed, including more than 13,000 children and more than 1200 Israelis during the initial attacks by Hamas which prompted the War.)