Ian Carroll Exposes Benjamin Netanyahu's Corruption Trial and the Banned Documentary Revealing Israel's Dark Secrets

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Ian Carroll Exposes Benjamin Netanyahu's Corruption Trial and the Banned Documentary Revealing Israel's Dark Secrets

Ian Carroll uncovers the truth behind Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial and reveals where to find The BB Files, a documentary mysteriously pulled from all major streaming platforms. The film features leaked police interrogations of Netanyahu, his wife Sarah, and billionaire donors Miriam and Sheldon Adelson, exposing alleged bribery, media manipulation, and government corruption. Through understanding Netanyahu's legal troubles, Carroll argues, you gain critical perspective on Gaza, Israel's far-right government coalition, and how one man's desperate attempt to avoid prison may have pulled the entire world toward conflict. This documentary changes everything about how we understand the current Middle East crisis.

June 11, 2025

The Documentary They Don't Want You to See

A new documentary about Benjamin Netanyahu and corruption in the Israeli government was mysteriously pulled from all major streaming platforms. The BB Files, which was shortlisted for an Oscar nomination, contains serious revelations including leaked police depositions from Miriam and Sheldon Adelson, testimony from Netanyahu's lifelong best friend, his campaign manager, and co-conspirators in a long list of alleged crimes. Most importantly, the documentary sheds light on how the Middle East reached its current state, how and why Netanyahu took Israel to war with Hamas, and why he has no intention of ending that conflict.

Many Americans don't know enough about Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial. Through understanding his corruption trial, you come to understand the current state of the Israeli government and the ultra-right-wing party in power. Tragically, you gain a whole new perspective on what's happening in Gaza and Israel's military actions around its borders.

The documentary includes leaked police interrogation footage not only of Netanyahu and his wife Sarah, but also of Miriam and Sheldon Adelson, two of the most powerful Jewish political donors in the world. It features footage of the interrogation of Arnon Milchan, ex-Israeli spy and Hollywood mogul who stands at the center of the trial. It includes Netanyahu's lifelong best friend, former associates, former personal assistant, campaign manager, and a wide cast of Israeli sources.

In one police interrogation, Miriam Adelson specifically says, "What can I say? If this comes out, I'm dead." Well, it got out and then mysteriously it was pulled from all streaming platforms, essentially wiped from the internet. Amazon Prime where it had been available simply showed "this video is currently unavailable to watch in your location." Using a VPN reveals it's unavailable in any location. Or at least that is apparently what Netanyahu would like to happen. But the internet has a way of holding on to things, especially things you try to bury.

Who Is Benjamin Netanyahu?

Benjamin Netanyahu was born in 1949 to secular Jewish parents, meaning non-religious. He is the longest-serving prime minister in Israel's history, having served for a total of 17 years so far: 1996 to 1999, again from 2009 to 2021, and then after a quick break, he was elected again in 2022. That last gap from 2021 to 2022 becomes crucial because that is where everything changed dramatically.

To understand that shift, you have to understand how much power went to his head during his incredibly long time atop Israeli politics from 2009 to 2021. That is 12 consecutive years throughout basically all of Obama's two terms and through Trump's first term. Eighteen-year-olds serving in the IDF today have basically never known Israel without Netanyahu.

During that 12-year period, Netanyahu and his wife Sarah became more and more corrupted by power, wealth, and influence. Netanyahu had many corruption cases over the years. In 1997, he was investigated for appointing the attorney general in some corrupt deal. Later, he was interrogated for receiving gifts. There was also a case about the submarines deal that Israel has with Germany. But he was never prosecuted. When you do something wrong and get away with it once, twice, three times, ten times, twenty times, you begin to think that you are immune, that nothing will touch you.

Sarah Netanyahu's Role in the Corruption

Sarah Netanyahu is extremely important as a decision maker in everything that goes around Netanyahu. She deals with hiring in the office, gets to decide who will be the advisor, decides his schedule, and decides policy. They are almost like a couple that runs the country together.

It's been proved in court that Sarah Netanyahu abused workers and treated them in the most humiliating way possible. According to their bodyguard, whenever they'd return from the White House, it was difficult because Sarah wanted to be treated just as nicely as Melania Trump with all the same stops pulled out as for the American president and first lady. The bodyguard describes how they know how to steal things that they want to have, that invoices had to be falsified because the state wasn't willing to pay, and her budget was always approved.

He describes her drinking habits, noting she drinks a lot, which explained why her behavior was sometimes friendly, sometimes angry. When Sarah got in the car after drivers loaded her trunk with boxes of champagne, she would take a glass of champagne to go. Her favorite champagne is expensive, and they've racked up quite the bill through gifts provided by their rich friends over and over.

Netanyahu has a very sharp mind apparently, but not so sharp when it comes to remembering all the gifts that he and his wife received over the years.

The Three Criminal Cases Against Netanyahu

In 2016, Israeli investigators opened an investigation into the Netanyahus and their wealthy friends. In November 2019, Netanyahu was officially charged. Israel actually has a legitimate history of putting their politicians in prison when found guilty. In the past 20 years, they have imprisoned a minister of finance, a president, and a prime minister for crimes like corruption, bribery, lying under oath, and rape.

Netanyahu stands accused of three separate but related offenses titled Case 1000, Case 2000, and Case 4000.

Case 1000 revolves around Netanyahu receiving a 20-year supply of gifts from ex-Israeli spy turned Hollywood tycoon Arnon Milchan in exchange for illicit government favors like extending a tax loophole that would have saved him millions of dollars, pressuring John Kerry for help with Milchan's visas, and interceding on behalf of Milchan's investments using Netanyahu's government authority. By the way, Arnon Milchan openly bragged about his time as an Israeli spy when he helped Israel steal nuclear technology from the US for their secret nuclear program.

Case 2000 involves Netanyahu's relationship with the publisher and controlling owner of one of the most popular Israeli newspaper publications, Yedioth Ahronoth, named Arnon Mozes. The allegation is that Netanyahu was trading political favors for positive media coverage of him and his wife. This is especially concerning because the relationship came into focus surrounding the 2016 election where the two allegedly collaborated to weaken Netanyahu's opponent and presumably win him the election.

Case 4000 is similar to Case 2000. It involves Netanyahu forming a relationship with the owner of one of Israel's top online news platforms named Walla. He used it to run positive coverage of him and his wife as well as negative coverage of his opponents.

Netanyahu has allegedly fashioned himself more and more as the supreme ruler of Israel, wielding his power to corrupt the media, exchange favors, and enrich his family through his position of power. Even Netanyahu's son, Yair, got in on dictating content to Walla. Yair is ultra-right-wing, even more right-leaning than his father. Netanyahu told his best friend one day that Yair can replace him, floating the idea of his son replacing him like it's a monarchy.

Netanyahu's Dangerous Alliance With Extremists

Netanyahu had been aligning more and more with right-wing factions in Israel for some time. Many Israelis point to the 2015 elections which he won with the alleged support of his corrupt media mogul friends involved in his criminal charges. But he was okay because he was in power and able to use that power to protect himself and his friends.

In 2021, he was beaten in the election and suddenly became very vulnerable. He was facing multiple serious charges and his seat of power from which he had allegedly been ministering favors to his rich friends was gone. Netanyahu's only path forward was to get back into office as quickly as possible and to do something to bury these charges forever. This is where everything gets really dark.

Netanyahu decided that given the choice between facing his charges and probably going to prison or taking Israel down a supremacist path, he chose the latter. He chose to go to any length to retake power and escape prison.

Meet Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, two of the most prominent examples of the path Netanyahu has taken his country down. Both live in illegal Israeli settlements on stolen land in the West Bank. Both have participated in and support Jewish terrorism in the past. They represent the most fervent fascist religious extremism of the Israeli right-wing. They represent the beliefs of many Jewish supremacists in Israel that the Palestinian people should be eliminated and ethnically cleansed at any cost.

Now they have a stranglehold over Benjamin Netanyahu. Because they represent the right-wing coalition that elected him, if Netanyahu doesn't appease them, he will almost surely lose his position and maybe be locked up.

Smotrich not only lives in an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank, but he actually lives outside of its borders as an active expansion of that settlement. He was arrested in 2005 for being a Jewish terrorist, though the investigation never pursued charges. As finance minister, he is working to cut off the Palestinian Authority from Israel's financial system, using his authority to stop transferring tax payments and preventing the return of Palestinian workers to Israel. Security forces are now alerting about the collapse of the Palestinian Authority and the dire consequences for Israel's security. Smotrich understands the security dangers but this is exactly his goal.

Itamar Ben-Gvir also supports this vision of chaos. During Jerusalem Day celebrations, Ben-Gvir stated that his policy is that Jews would be allowed to carry out religious rituals on the Holy Temple Mount. This faction dreams of the day when they can destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and rebuild the Jewish temple on the Temple Mount, which is the symbolic center of the global religious conflict between Judaism and Islam. That course of action would almost certainly spell global war, quite likely nuclear in nature.

Ben-Gvir spoke openly in support of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who signed the Oslo Accord peace treaties with the Palestinians. He was once filmed holding a hood emblem he claimed was from Rabin's car, saying "we can get to Rabin as well." A Jewish extremist assassinated Rabin three weeks later. Ben-Gvir was not recruited to military service because he was condemned in court as one who supports Jewish terror. He is a follower of a racist movement and wants to expel what he calls disloyal Arabs.

Ben-Gvir was also a member of the Kach Party based on Kahanism. The Kach Party was outlawed in Israel and the US State Department designated it a foreign terrorist organization. It's based on the theology of Meir Kahane who founded the Jewish Defense League, a Jewish terrorist organization operating in the US and Canada. The JDL's means of "protecting Jews from anti-Semitism" included bombing Arab and Soviet properties in the United States and assassinating people they deemed enemies of the Jewish people.

The Assault on Israeli Democracy

Netanyahu allies with Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, wins the election in December 2022, and then in the first week they begin to undermine the power of the Supreme Court in Israel. Ben-Gvir is now the minister controlling the police, bringing his racist violent ideology into the entire policing system inside Israel. Smotrich wants to do ethnic cleansing based on his published plan.

These guys have zero interest in the corruption cases because Netanyahu is their means to achieve their fantasies, their dreams, their vision to annex Judea and Samaria and kill once and for all the idea of a Palestinian state. What was the difference between 2023 and the 20 years that came before? Only one thing: the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court was perceived by his partners as the rival of what they want to achieve. If you are an annexationist, the Supreme Court might stop you, so you need to castrate the Supreme Court from being able to stop you. At the same time, Netanyahu realized judicial reform could be a way to legislate his way out of his legal predicament.

One week after Netanyahu returns to power with the help of the supremacist far right, they take active steps to undermine Israel's democracy. Protests break out in the streets with renewed vigor. Violence escalates, spurred on by Ben-Gvir's zealotry in command of the police force. The situation quickly grows to a fever pitch throughout 2023.

October 7th Changes Everything

Then Hamas attacks on October 7th. The documentary shows actual footage of the attacks to remind us all how brutal it was, without embellishing it with questionable stories. As soon as Israel is under threat, the entire country comes together and shifts dramatically toward the right-wing. Suddenly, the focus is no longer on Netanyahu, no longer on his assault on Israeli democracy. Now, the existential threat is Hamas.

Despite the fact that Netanyahu propped up and facilitated millions of dollars of funding for Hamas for years specifically to keep the Gaza Strip destabilized. Despite the fact that his own IDF ordered their helicopters to fire indiscriminately on vehicles returning to the Gaza Strip, likely killing dozens or even hundreds of Israeli civilians and potential hostages. Despite the fact that it came out later that Netanyahu's intelligence services had known of the attack in advance and had not acted on that intelligence. In fact, they had coincidentally moved two full companies of IDF commandos away from the Gaza border just two days before the attacks.

When the investigation into what really happened on October 7th got too hot, the court that Netanyahu was in the process of strangling ordered a suspension of the investigation. Nothing to see here.

The documentary makes a point of showing in graphic detail the destruction that was subsequently inflicted upon the Palestinians. By the end of the sequence, you can't help but feel the plight of both peoples and rage for the corruption and immorality that led to this situation.

Why This Documentary Matters

This documentary is important because it makes plain for everyone to see that this is a more complex issue than just the Jews versus the Palestinians. It's more complex than just "Israel is evil," more complex than blaming an entire group of people for the world's problems. Israel is being preyed upon by a parasite. It is infected by the fringe extremist ideology of Jewish supremacy that has been a significant but not always controlling mindset in Israeli politics until recently.

This war has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians at the hands of a US-backed and armed military led by extremists who openly state their intentions to ethnically cleanse Gaza and all of Palestine. Netanyahu is so corrupted and absorbed by his own self-preservation that he will go along with just about anything that ensures he holds on to power.

Protests have resumed in the streets over his handling of the war and his apparent indifference to the lives of the hostages still held by Hamas more than a year and a half later. The head of the Shin Bet, similar to Israel's FBI, resigned a few months ago, stating that he believed Netanyahu was dictatorial and power-crazed. He claimed that if there were to be a constitutional crisis, Netanyahu would expect him to obey the prime minister and not the courts, and that Netanyahu had asked him to use the Shin Bet to spy on Israeli citizens who participated in and supported the protests.

Netanyahu denied the allegations exactly as he has with every other allegation. If there is one thing Netanyahu is good at, it is acting however he needs to act in order to escape justice for one more day, to hold on to power for one more day, to delay the inevitable one more day. But the inevitable is coming.

A Call for Accountability

The ultimate tragedy of this situation is that in many ways, it's only possible because this one cowardly man would rather watch the whole world burn than face the consequences of his corruption. He would rather tear down Israel's democratic system, the only democracy in the Middle East. He would rather let his own people remain in Hamas captivity, let his own people continue to die in war, his own economy crumble, his own nation and people's goodwill evaporate all around the world than face justice.

Benjamin Netanyahu has opened the gates to the most vile supremacist fascist wing of Judaism to take power in Israel and to slaughter Palestinian men, women, and children. He has opened Pandora's box and crossed a line we will never return from. He's doing it all just to save his own skin. But his cowardice is being used by extremists in Israel to achieve their own messianic goals, by those profiting off another forever war, by the surveillance state to test dystopian technologies, and by the ruling class to further divide the people.

Jewish people face a unique and difficult reckoning. If Jewish people want to maintain a strong sense of national identity and unity, what happens when members of your tribe commit atrocities for corrupt reasons and then turn the world against you? If Jewish people are going to maintain such a strong global identity, the burden falls to them to a certain degree to hold all other Jews to the highest moral standard. Otherwise, how can you blame people for collectively blaming Jews when it is Jews who group up collectively and defend the actions of a man like Netanyahu at any cost?

Many Jews don't do that. Many Jews think critically and are outspoken about the corruption in Israel and the insanity of its current course of action. All Jews are individuals and should be treated as such. Jews should not treat Israel as an infallible project. Israel has committed many atrocities and has much to answer for. Tying your identity to a corrupt government is a horrible idea. As an American, the job is to loudly criticize the government for its crimes and call for it to do better. Jewish people should do the same for theirs.

With every dead Palestinian child, the world turns more and more against Israel and those who stand with her. Violence and hate only begets more violence and hate. It was that cycle of violence that got us into this mess, and the only way out of it is with Netanyahu behind bars.

Where to Watch The BB Files

Netanyahu got his way and had the documentary taken down off all major streaming platforms, but it's still available from the producers on their website. You can support the producers by going to their website, where you can stream it through Vimeo. For the price of about a Big Mac meal, you can vote your support for the brave men and women who made this film at great personal expense and risk. They have done an immeasurable service to the world.

This is the truth and it matters to everyone around the world because whether we like it or not, Israel is pulling the entire globe into this conflict. Our own politicians are pulling us into this conflict by funding it, endorsing it, and passing speech laws in America if you question it.

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