Over the past few years, Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly explained that he does not consider making a plea deal with the prosecution, in which he will have to admit some of the charges or lighter charges.
Despite this, not many were surprised to hear that Netanyahu's people are working hard these days to reach such a deal.
He is allowed.
He did not owe anyone an accurate explanation of his moves in the legal process, and he may make efforts to evade actual imprisonment.
In the remaining days until the end of the term of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, it will probably be decided whether Netanyahu will have several years of deliberation before which he will fight for his innocence - or the process will be shortened and he will have to admit some accusations and take a very long, and perhaps eternal, leave from politics.
The decision to make a deal can be very tempting for a defendant who fears that the prosecution may prove his offenses, and that the agreement with her, on his partial confession, may escape him from a heavy sentence.
The eyes of the state and the world are not on him, neither on those who adore him nor on those who are eager for Ido, and if he succeeds greatly in his punishment and does not stand trial for transgressions he has committed - he has nothing but joy in his part.
But this is not Netanyahu's situation.
Netanyahu is a public figure, whether he is in office or not.
For him, a partial confession is a public confession of serious offenses that will bring him disgrace, whether it is an official disgrace or not.
It will be a very sad end to a meteoric and impressive political career - even in the opinion of his political rivals, who are convinced that he has caused Israel severe political damage.
I believe that Netanyahu will decide on plea bargains, which involve a confession, and perhaps also an apology for what he did - only if Japanese what the late Adv. Yaakov Weinroth offered him, when he estimated, apparently, that the offenses were indeed committed and asked to release his client Time - from the need to spend a few years in prisoner clothes.
A decision to give up the idea of a deal and continue with the administration of justice, out of a conviction of the justice of his way and his ability to convince his judges of it - is the most elegant, most expensive decision, and also the one that could lead him to prison.
It is likely that Netanyahu will choose her - in the face of the deal - only if he is sure that all the indictments against him are a mask of false allegations, and that this can be proven in court.
I suppose if he had thought so, he would not have been silent in the days since the publication of the news of the deal being made.
But it is also very possible that Netanyahu waited - as usual - for the last moment when he still has the decision whether to sign a plea deal, and then turn to the "Dreyfus option": to declare that he has been falsely accused, and that it is a connection between the media, police, prosecutors and the court. That he is right-wing, Jewish, well-to-do or Likudnik).
But Dreyfus is not.
The question is whether, when he is forced to admit his stumbles, he will remain an Israeli patriot - or will he prefer to do as Samson did, and discredit the law enforcement system in his country.
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