Barak on the settlement for Netanyahu: Mandblit has no backbone, such a deal will be a disgrace to generations

In an interview with 103FM, the former prime minister called the plea deal a "professional and moral bankruptcy," claiming that Spokesman Mandelblit had failed to lead the war on corruption. He said of the Supreme Court president:

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17/01/2022

Monday, 17 January 2022, 07:48 Updated: 08:03

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In the video: The Netanyahu family concludes a consultation on the plea deal at the defense (Photo: Yotam Ronen)

Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak this morning (Monday) criticized the negotiations under way for the settlement of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plea deal. At the same time, he said in an interview with Golan Yokpaz and Anat Davidov on FM103, he was surprised that Mandelblit decided to act to approve the deal in the last two weeks of his term in office

. I imagined that in the last two weeks of his tenure he would dare to try to initiate such a plea deal.

"This is a person who was Netanyahu's appointment after serving with him in the most intimate and personal way. He closed 6-5 cases to the prime minister's wife without writing. Prevented a parallel investigation of the couple in the Alpine files did not order an investigation into the shredding of documents did not investigate the disappearance of the gifts, did not investigate at the time the shares and transfers from the cousin, did not enforce the conflict of interest agreement.

I say that Mandelblit's failure to lead the war on corruption, in my opinion, has caused demoralization among the prosecution.

Such a plea deal would be a disgrace to generations and a professional and moral bankruptcy. "

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"I had no idea that in the last two weeks of his tenure he would dare to try to initiate a plea deal."

Mandelblit (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Barak referred to the support of former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak in the plea deal and said that "I want to make it clear that in the overall picture Netanyahu is responsible for all this tangle, the problem is not that there is a rift here. This man is a genius in the field and an icon of law and I have a huge appreciation for him as a moral failure. I do not know how to explain, the behavior is that of Macher. Secretly over the years.

"" Macher's behavior is huge, this is the man who forced Rabin to resign for breaking the law, they held an account, their wife held an account in Washington.

The same person is talking about a prime minister who is on trial for corruption on fraud and breach of trust, who was actively involved in the destruction of democracy about which he is willing to go to the adviser and talk? ".

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