MK Dov Khenin (Hadash) reacted Tuesday afternoon to the sentencing of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Olmert was handed a six-year prison sentence Tuesday, and will apparently be the first Prime Minister to be incarcerated in Israeli history.
MK Dov Khenin during a protest meeting in front the Holyland Project in Jerusalem (Photo: The Association for the Defense of Nature)
“Olmert’s sentence joins the parade of shame bourgeois politicians into the walls of the prison and is indicative of the real danger to democracy – the corruption of public officials,” MK Khenin said. “The Holyland Affair demonstrates that behind every environmental injustice is corruption,” Khenin fired. “Planning and construction, using big money – it’s tempting to take shortcuts.” “We therefore need to strengthen transparency and control over big projects,” he continued. “We need to move in the opposite direction of Netanyahu’s neo-liberal reforms, who seeks to erase the gatekeepers and remove environmental protection in favor of backdoor real estate deals,” added.
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