I have said it before, and I will say it again.

The systems might be corrupt, or the systems might not be corrupt. Benjamin Netanyahu has presided over the systems as Prime Minister for the past ten years, and then before that as well with some gaps. And the Likud has presided over the systems for many of the past 35 years or so even when Netanyahu was not at the helm.

So the system, which might be corrupt, was largely appointed and overseen and administered by Netanyahu and the Likud. Many of the people serving in top positions in that supposedly/possibly "corrupt" system are direct appointees of Netanyahu.

So even if it is corrupt, Netanyahu and the Likud are either to blame for fostering a corrupt system or for doing nothing to fix it until it affected them personally, now. They were happy for it to do its magic when it was bringing down political opponents such as Ehud Olmert (and other lesser politicians), but when it turns on Likudniks then it is corrupt.

And no, it is not just Netanyahu and the Likud. Israel Hayom did some digging and discovered that in the past when the issue of passing a law allowing a Prime Minister under indictment to continue serving was on the table, it was MKs from the Labor and Meretz parties, along with Tzippi Livni, Rubi Rivlin and the Arab parties, that supported it.

So all the politicians, or many of them if I would not be cynical, just do things and support bills that will help them and their parties rather than what is good for the country. But that is not really a new revelation.

So, is the system corrupt? I do not know. It might be, but if it is, Netanyahu is as much, if not more, to blame as anybody else.