Between Yosef Ben Matityahu and the Netanyahu family: A former minister only wants a settlement, but supporters shout in the studios

The gap between Netanyahu's and his lawyers' approach to the plea agreement and the statements of his supporters is sad and a little funny.

Meanwhile, Mandelblit cools down and it's good that way;

It is clear why Netanyahu wants to close an agreement before retiring;

And this is exactly the reason why the decision should be left to the consultant who will replace him

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20/01/2022

Thursday, 20 January 2022, 12:21 Updated: 13:49

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In the video: Netanyahu meets again with his lawyers (Photo: Niv Aharonson)

If everything went well for Benjamin Netanyahu's attorneys, and in the coming days, during the tenure of the current Attorney General, Avichai Mandelblit, the plea agreement between Netanyahu and the State Attorney's Office would have been signed. It is not for nothing that Adv. Boaz Ben-Zur, a much smarter lawyer than his chatty colleagues who fill the air in the studios, is doing everything to make this negotiation a success. It probably won't work for him. Mandelblit has already hardened positions, both because he was convinced by the prosecution staff that they should be hardened, and also because he really believes that the race to the long-awaited arrangement in the next few days until the end of his term is an unreasonable, meaningless and illogical race. After all, if Netanyahu wants, he can continue to negotiate with his successor, or his successor. An argument is not a mo "From a coalition he is accustomed to doing in the last hours of the mandate he received from the president.

Sad and a bit funny ("Great Country" put it accurately yesterday), the gap between Netanyahu and his lawyers' approach to the issue of the plea bargain, and the statements of his noisy supporters in the studios. They recognize in him some symbol of tribal struggle, and therefore do not want him to confess, while he, all he is interested in, is to make sure he does not get behind bars.

In a particularly embarrassing performance this week, the veteran and senior defense attorney, Adv. Zion Amir, compared Netanyahu to the fortified leader of Masada. The appearance was embarrassing also because Amir is an experienced and knowledgeable lawyer, but mainly because he and Adv. Avigdor Feldman also signed a dream plea agreement many years ago, similar (with obvious differences in the type of offenses) to Netanyahu's.

Amir Kazkour represented the eighth president of the country, Moshe Katsav, who after investigations and drafts of charges against Katsav for multiple sexual offenses, including rape, reached a crazy plea agreement with Feldman, whom we journalists called the "kiss hugs" arrangement, hinting at what was left of him after the suspicions The giants for rape offenses, unlawful consensual intercourse and a host of other atrocities.

It was an agreed-upon, painfully ridiculous indictment that hardly even contained a description of a criminal offense.

This week, the then state attorney, Eran Shender, admitted that his decision and that of the then attorney general, Menachem Mazuz, to go over the plea agreement in this case was an unfortunate decision.

If Shender learned the lesson from the prosecution side about the very signing of the plea bargain, how is it that Amir from the defense side did not learn the lesson about his dumb explosion, which escalated to seven years in prison?

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So maybe Amir and his friends really see Netanyahu as a mythical figure, who has no body and no body figure? A kind of modern martyr? Who would rather see him in the House of Forbidden than sign a deal with the great devil, Avichai Mandelblit?

In this matter it is difficult to refrain from mentioning another relevant anecdote from that period.

The most hated woman on the Katsav defense team in those days, was actually the one who seemed to me like a great heroine (admits guilt), Adv. Her, who was also her friend, Orly Revivo - then nicknamed A. from the President's House. Amir, who treated her then, at every opportunity, with contempt and ridicule, sounded today as if reciting her messages. The way a wheel turns. An indictment against a public figure, all the more so in this case, must be clarified in court; therefore, for me, it would be good if both Mandelblit and Netanyahu listened to Barshi and Amir not to sign the deal.

One should flee from this arrangement like wildfire.

Mandelblit (Photo: Reuven Castro)

As for the other side, of Mandelblit, it is hard not to appreciate that if the negotiation thing had not been leaked, there was a pretty good chance that this arrangement would have passed. In closed conversations, he says that for a moment it did not occur to him to hide the negotiations if he had reached advanced stages when he went down to the details. Perhaps, but it can also be assumed that if the negotiations had passed his secret part For his actions - there was nothing to stop this move until the signing.

From the moment the deal was leaked before Netanyahu's consent to the disgrace, the eyes and ears of the media and the public are waiting for Netanyahu's clear consent to impose the disgrace on his actions. The chance of this happening is very low. Therefore, Ben-Zur tried yesterday to create a different work atmosphere, and clarified in one way or another to the State Attorney's Office that there is no complete denial of their condition, but asked them to lower it from a threshold condition to a standard requirement, one of its many requirements. The parties will formulate a full settlement and present it all to the parties and then to the public. Of course, it is clear to Ben-Zur and Netanyahu that the disgrace will be there, but in this way it will be easier for him to sell it, both to the Netanyahu family and to the supporting public.

On the day of Mandelblit's decision to file the indictment against Netanyahu in November 19, he stated that he had decided on the indictment against Netanyahu "with a heavy heart, but with a whole heart." As long as the contacts were quiet, Ben Tzur and his team had a chance to speak to Mandelblit's "heavy heart." An examination of his tenure reveals that he usually eased with Netanyahu and did not get worse with him, that his worldview as a prosecutor is soft and not tough. From the time the contacts were published, it seems that Ben-Zur already has to deal with Mandelblit's "whole heart" regarding the indictment he decided on, an indictment based on evidence of continuing and alleged systematic government corruption, evidence of favoritism, and uncontrollable lust for "hostile media."

Mandelblit did well to take a step back in the race to sign the plea agreement, and would do badly if tempted to sign at the last minute.

After all, the only reason to get a signature quickly, is the assumption of Netanyahu's lawyers and himself, that it will be easier to reach this settlement with Mandelblit and his heavy heart, because who knows what heart it has that will come or come after him.

With all due respect, once Mandelblit has realized that this is their consideration, and it is clear as day that this is the consideration, he should flee from this arrangement like wildfire.

On the contrary, if already, as a prosecutor who believes in hearing the Ipka it turns out, it makes sense that the next counselor who comes to this case as an empty board, will examine the defense attorneys' request, know the case closely about his weaknesses and strengths and make a clear and clean decision.

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