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Lapid: Stop the election bribery
Yuval Karni and Gad Lior
Published: 23.12.14, 14:08
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1. Lapid, a little shame on your part
Michael ,   Haifa   (12.23.14)
You sat in Nentanyahu's government and furthered all his policies until the bitter end
2. Meanwhile Israel becomes Bangladesh, Somalia and Yemen
Jewish Doctor ,   ATLANTA GA USA   (12.23.14)
Israel WAS the great shining democracy, and is going broke. It had the money but it's going to buddy-buddy favored positions and to the tyrannical minority of ultra religious groups who cow & bellow the most., but starving secular people and other low income people are being ignored, even shunned. All to keep the right wing settlers fat and paid off and from running further amok. It's called payoffs, graft, corruption, and of course the 10% rabbinates first and formost weapon, the ultras uniform use and encouragement of NEPOTISM. Nothing new here! Same olde graft.
3. How is releasing funds you held up for months bribery?
Eric ,   Tel Aviv & NYC   (12.23.14)
Mr. Lapid, can you explain how is releasing funds you held up for months bribery? It is rectifying your political efforts to discriminate against part of the Israeli population.
4. Netanyahu's fingers in the till
Mordechai ,   Beit Shemesh   (12.23.14)
Don't worry Bibi's time in the dock is to come. Amazing how the commentators here all seem to think they are right and the majority of the people are wrong. Keep bleating, we are sick and tired of your stealing from the State coffers. One thing is for sure there will never be a Greater Israel, just as every Israeli is sicken by the settlers brazen and open stealing from the poor, weak and sick. We need more hospitals but there is no money for them as it all goes to the pockets of the settlers!
5. So the Lunatic Anti-Bibi-Left can invent "Surveys/reports"
(12.23.14)
every couple of days, but we should play be the "rules"?!
6. Stop the election BS !
Jake ,   Jerusalem   (12.23.14)
Come on, if you have info that Bibi is doing something illegal, there is the police and the state's attorney. Give them the info and have him prosecuted. Or stop the BS!
7. "election bribery"
David   (12.23.14)
I have to thank Lapid for providing some comic relief. If anyone knows anything about demagoguery and designing budgetary policies for popularity and not for substance or effect, it would be him.
8. re: Michael
David   (12.23.14)
I don't seem to see precisely what "destructive" policies Lapid he is even criticizing. As for settlement funding, it is my understanding that he blocked all, not part of it. But after all this is a distraction. It is of geopolitical significance, but absolutely no significance to the budget. Anyone who thinks-- as he has strangely repeated often-- that the "money" for the budget is somehow disappearing into Jewish homes in the West Bank is a complete fool. Let us not forget that Lapid also fought over the defense budget, even in the midst of the summer war. There, of course, is a real budgetary issue-- but for some reason he prefers not to remind us of it. Perhaps because it doesn't make for nice slogans? Perhaps because his dealings on the issue revealed a willingness to invert the proper order of priorities-- and imperil both Israel's physical and financial security for the sake of his popularity? (Even the chair of the Bank of Israel disagreed with his proposals for financing the defense budget). Unfortunately, Israel is in a difficult neighborhood-- and nothing will get easier if we act irresponsibly and let our enemies take heart that we are either stuck with silly games, or that we have lost the will to fight. As far as I see it, even the isolated settlement projects are of some good utility in this regard.
9. Re: Mordechai
David   (12.23.14)
Why don't you get a copy of the last Knesset budget, and tabulate the amounts that are spent on defense, healthcare, education, etc., in actual numbers, and then please explain where all the money in Israel is disappearing. I don't think that the construction of a few dozen houses is exactly prohibiting the construction of new hospitals. Perhaps the defense budget is doing this to a certain extent, but I don't see how this will be improved if we keep retreating further toward the armistice lines, embolden our enemies, and inevitably have to cover Israel with more and more "iron domes."
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