Netanyahu to be Indicted

This is pretty big news that has been brewing for some time.  Author Joel Rosenberg weighs in.

Let's remember to pray for Netanyahu and his family. 

(Jerusalem, Israel) -- After months of rumors that it was coming, a thermonuclear legal and political bomb hit today.

Israel's Attorney General is moving ahead with indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in three separate cases involving corruption and bribery.

Netanyahu insists he is innocent and will be vindicated.

Friends of the Prime Minister are calling the indictments "a political hit job." 

It should be noted that a previous Israeli Prime Minister -- Ehud Olmert -- was indicted while in office. His government coalition unraveled. He was forced to step down as premier. He was eventually convicted and sent to prison.

Several years before that, a former Israeli President -- Moshe Katsav -- was also indicted, removed from office, convicted and sent to prison.

It's far too early to say how these cases will play out legally. But the political stakes could not be much higher for Netanyahu personally, and for his Likud party.

"In a move that drastically shakes up Israeli politics less than six weeks before general elections, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit decided Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be charged with criminal wrongdoing in three separate cases against him, including bribery in the far-reaching Bezeq corruption probe, pending a hearing," reports the Times of Israel.