If you thought politicians in the Western world had the market cornered on sex scandals and the pious Islamic faithful in Palestinian Government could stay smut free, think again. There is a scandal bursting open in the West Bank that has all the elements: sex, politicians, videotape and blackmail. However, what makes this scandal unique is that the man executing the blackmail is doing it in the name of clean government.
Fahmi Shabaneh was the head of the anti-corruption unit in the Palestinian authority. He rounded up a pile of what he calls evidence of chronic corruption in the government. In that pile is a tape showing the Secretary General to President Mahmoud Abbas, Rafik Al Husseini. Shabeneh claims the tape shows Husseini doing things he doesn’t want his Mullah or wife to see with an unidentified woman.
Shabaneh deposited the incriminating documents and the sex tape with Israel Channel 10 reporter Tzvi Yehezkeli with instructions to publish the sex tape tomorrow night. Then he demanded that President Abbas take serious steps to clean up the Palestinian Authority. If not, Yehezkeli is instructed to go public with the rest of the documents in 2 weeks.
Like a good reporter does, Yehezkeli pulled a few stills off the videotape and released them to promo his upcoming reports.