Sarkozy didn’t say anything that the attorney-general, a civil servant, didn’t already say. He’s going to indict Lieberman one of these days for enriching himself in unkosher ways. In Israel unlike Britain where half the members of Parliament are thieves but no one gets sent to jail, crooks are put on trial. Just last week a former finance minister got five and a half years and a former labor minister got four years, from different parties in unrelated plunderings. Even Ariel Sharon, the great leader, only avoided jail because he structured matters in such a way that the trail ended with his oldest son, who went from being one of the most powerful men in the country to just another convict. And of course Olmert was forced out as PM and his trial will be coming up in due course.
Sarkosky and the rest of the effete western Europeans might be taken seriously if they would actually do something except prattle when it comes to helping Israel deal with its most serious problem, the Iranian nukes. Lieberman, a Russian by origin, has been able to move the ball a few yards in getting the Russians to listen to Israel’s concerns. It seems that Russia is going to buy some of Israel’s high-tech drones (on condition they don’t pass on the technology to the Arabs) and in return go slow in equipping Iran with a new air defence system. Peres, the president, was in Kazakhstan this week and got a promise from them not to allow shipment of nuke materials across their country although the scene seemed to be something out of Borat and the promise equally as credible.
