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Court okays plea bargain for Shula Zaken, Olmert's bureau chief who turned on her boss
Naama Cohen-Friedman
Published: 15.05.14, 10:29
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1. WIsh we Americans could jail obama
BUILD BABY BUILD !!!   (05.15.14)
he's committed more criminal acts than the mafia. KEEP BUILDING !!!!
2. #1
Michael ,   Haifa   (05.15.14)
Obama still has a great deal to learn from Israeli politicians
3. The question here ...
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (05.15.14)
... is why is the "loyal" minion taping conversations to begin with? What do you want to bet that Zaken was working on a nice little blackmail plan, designed to benefit exclusively herself? If the government hadn't blown the Holyland escapade sky-high, Zaken would have used the tapes to blackmail Olmert, not as a means of exonerating herself. Eleven months isn't enough.
4. Plea Bargaining
Maurice ,   Israel   (05.15.14)
In this case where bribery and kickbacks are being prosecuted as criminal, can we consider all bribery and kickbacks to be worthy of prosecution? Is plea bargaining a form of bribery, kickback, reward? If so then can plea bargaining be legitimate and further the cause of justice?
5. #1
Arthur ,   Houston, TX   (05.15.14)
Would you list all those crimes. Looks like you are watching Fox too much.
6. BUILD BABY BUILD, a brick wall over your stupid mouth
Leah   (05.15.14)
Look, is there any subject on earth that you cannot be obnoxious about? Just shut up.
7. 1. BBB: Edgar Cayce, the prophet, said that after two US
Rivkah   (05.15.14)
Presidents die in office (Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy died while in office after the prediction), that the USA would be ruled by the mob (mafia). BHO and GWB and WJC and GHWB and RR and JC and GF and RMN and LBJ ALL reflect mob rule. ALL. It is taking the nation down the path of judgment by Elohim. Watch The Harbinger DVD or read the book by the same name by Messianic Jewish Rabbi Jonathan Cahn of New Jersey and Jerusalem to see how far that judgment has come and what is about to unfold. On Elul 29 in 2015, the economic collapse of the USA and possibly the world will occur unless the nation repents and turns back to Elohim and His Son Yahoshua (Proverbs 30:4,5 says Elohim has a Name and He has a Son and His Son has a Name. Isaiah chapter 53 describes Yahoshua of Nazareth as Elohim's Son.)
8. Ex-PM Ehud Olmert has lots of company since in the USA
Rivkah   (05.15.14)
every person including babies commits at least THREE FELONIES A DAY, the title of a book that describes the absurdity of the multitude of laws that are on the books to ensnare people, not for justice. Such laws are to make sure that the government can prosecute anyone, including babies, at any time. If Ex-PM Ehuh Olmert would begin his sentence while the appeals are in process, it would pass faster and he could apply for a pardon from President Shimon Peres. I wish Omri Sharon would apply for a pardon. Those with great gifts often have great faults and if the faultless are put into office, the gifts are often less as Ex-US President Richard Nixon pointed out who was forced from office after he helped Israeli PM Golda Meir and helped Elohim save Israel in the 1973 war. BHO has done so many things that are far worse than President Nixon's faults and should be impeached and tried for treason. But he has done less for Israel so the Jew haters are content to let the nation be destroyed by a traitor in office rather than to impeach and prosecute someone who is not a friend of Israel as President Nixon was.
9. What a defilement of the name, Shula. Shula is the name of
(05.15.14)
a Lebanese woman who was a hero and suffered torture for years and the loss of an elegant lifestyle in Lebanon that her husband also lost for helping Israel. Perhaps this Shula's name should be changed to Sula. Ycch.
10. Plea bargain at the last minute?
Nora Tel Aviv   (05.15.14)
It should be presented from the start. The shark that says: "Here is the big shark" is no less shark. Now, concerning her role as an adamant secretary, the question arises on what purpose those eight tapes were secretly recorded by her if she was also actively participating on bribe taking.
11. Olmert + Zaken are being punished for their lack
barbara ,   Haifa Israel   (05.15.14)
of remorse - arrogance and "the law can't touch me" ideology will lose out in the end. They need to learn some humility. Imagine - Olmert went on lecturing trips to the states during these investigations and trials. Such hutzpa ! Couldn't he have behaved on a low profile ? No - well now maybe he'll learn some humility.
12. Al Pacino as Lt. Col Frank Slade ( Scent of a woman)
aliza   (05.15.14)
said: There are 2 kinds of people in this world, those who face the music and those who take cover, I take cover. Shula is of the 2nd group.
13. To: No. 9
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (05.15.14)
Hate to spoil your fun, but Ms. Zaken's name is Shulamit. "Shula" is just a nickname; not her given name.
14. To: No. 5
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (05.15.14)
Allow me. 1. He has reinvented himself -- he claims to be an American, and a Christian. While at Columbia University, however, he was the president of the Islamic Students Association and quite proud of his Kenyan birth. Was he lying then? Or is he lying now? 2. He has on occasion claimed to have been an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He was NOT an editor; he was the president of the Harvard Law Review, which is an elected position amongst the student body. The duties of the president of the Harvard Law Review are pretty much limited to going out for the pizza and soft drinks while the EDITORS do the serious work. 3. He has claimed to have been an adjunct professor of law. He was never an adjunct professor anything. He was, however, a teaching assistant at Columbia, before being fired for incompetence. 4. He claims to have severed ties with the thoroughly unscrupulous Rev. Jeremiah Wright, but you will notice a direct correlation between cronies (drug dealers, mostly) of the Rev. Wright and the annual Christmas list of pardons issued by Obama to "guests" of the United States Prison Service. 5. In an attempt to ease sanctions against Iran enacted by the Congress of the United States, Obama unconstitutionally ordered a lessening of some of the key sanctions under the claim that to do so fell under the mantle of executive privilege. It does not. Mr. Obama does not think that the Constitution of the United States applies to him. 6. Obamacare. Do you remember him gazing into the eyes of the American public and assuring us that all Americans could "keep our doctors" under the new federal legislation? Eighteen months ago, that became "most Americans will be able to keep their current physicians;" six months ago, that became "most Americans may have to change their physicians." 7. The debacle in Benghazi ultimately is the responsibility of the president of the United States. Obama is not Nixon, and Susan Rice and Jen Psaki are very DEFINITELY not Haldeman and Ehrlichman. There are quite a few more, but this should certainly suffice for the nonce.
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