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Netanyahu plays the victim card, again

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has managed to shift the public's focus from his son Yair's nauseating behavior to trying to legislate the ability of workers to make recordings of government ministers.
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The audio recording of Yair Netanyahu’s night of excess continues to make waves in Israeli politics. On Jan. 11, three days after the recording was aired, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and several of his most loyal ministers began calling for new rules and legislation to prevent themselves from being recorded by workers in their immediate vicinity. These calls served to stir attention away from the discussion surrounding the junior Netanyahu's behavior.

The prime minister skillfully diverted the discussion at a Cabinet meeting originally scheduled to go over the state budget, turning it instead toward the “need” to take urgent steps to protect ministers from being recorded and extorted. Netanyahu couldn't have hoped for better spin. After all, the whole world has been privy to the nauseating way his son spoke about women and his visits to strip clubs with a state-appointed, taxpayer-funded driver and security guard at his beck and call.

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