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Opinion | A plea deal will bury the truth Israel today

2022-01-23T00:32:34.695Z


The entire public has an interest in shedding light on the affair, not overshadowing it • So what is the counselor afraid of? He is probably afraid of the sunlight shining on things like state blackmail Nir Hefetz


The interruption of Benjamin Netanyahu's trial - if the parties do decide to enter into a plea deal - is a defeat for the entire public, for Netanyahu's haters and lovers, and for those who are neither these nor those, but want to know what judges in Israel will rule on the accusations leveled at the former prime minister.

The "deal" is a cowardly move, and the affair resembled the Arlozorov affair, which we do not know to this day who murdered him.

The truth will be hidden from our eyes.

We will not know if a bureaucratic coup took place here and officials managed to harm the election of the most prominent leader in Israel.

It is an unbearable development that will severely harm us.

The public interest - there is such a thing, above and beyond the quarreling parties - requires an exhaustive clarification of the accusations.

We have no one but judges to rule, and it is very bad that the accusations will be buried without a decision.

It is understandable why Netanyahu is interested in ending this treatise. He persevered surprisingly and unprecedentedly in the struggle against those who rose up against him, and one can understand the personal fatigue that is his lot in such a struggle. True, he and the Likud bear a heavy responsibility for the serious situation of the enforcement systems in Israel and for its repair. But a person who has been charged so heavily will not be able to lift the burden of correction. His ability to do so was diminished due to negotiations with Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, mediated by retired Supreme Court President Aharon Barak. The lawsuit (will be blasphemous, because he remembers his words to his son that he has nothing to give to the lawsuit).

But Advisor Mandelbit - why is he even considering a plea deal?

Very serious accusations were leveled at Netanyahu and his supporters and at the enforcement system under him: turning the State Attorney's Office into a political entity fighting for its power, selective enforcement, inventing precedent-setting offenses, extorting and torturing a witness, an adviser blackmailing the State Attorney, a criminal alliance with the media.

So why is the counselor willing to interrupt the trial without clarifying them, without proving at trial the justice of the system he heads?

What is his motive?

The entire public has an interest in shedding light on the affair, not overshadowing it.

So what is the counselor afraid of?

He is probably afraid of the sunlight shining on things like extortion to the state Nir Hefetz, for example.

In general, prosecution witnesses, not the defense, repeatedly present it as an empty vessel.

If he wants to stop the trial, it is only because he is afraid of a subsequent crash.

The good, very many people, who are convinced of Netanyahu's guilt - actually want, rightly, for the trial to continue.

Unlike them, the attorney general is interested in arresting him, because he is probably not really convinced of the accusations he made against Netanyahu.

All of us, painfully divided in this affair, have no interest in interrupting the sentence.

Adviser Mandelblit has an interest in interrupting him, so that his disgrace will not be exposed.

Even if the harmful plea deal does not materialize in the end, the fact that Mandelblit wanted it still testifies to the depth of decay that has spread in our enforcement systems.

Whoever has all the power of the enforcement system, and he exercises it in faith, must clearly want allegations that he has violated the law and has unlawfully exercised political power.

The fact that he wanted to evade clarification - is in itself proving that we all have a serious problem with our law enforcement systems.

What is the conclusion from all this?

It is not helpful to sink into passive depression.

What is revealed to our eyes thanks to the trial, including the mediation of the "switch" Barak, must rise up.

The defeat can be leveraged into a comprehensive struggle for our political freedom, because the defeat also exposes the intoxication of power and the deterioration of the morals of the "winning" prosecution.

We must not fail in the struggle, and it is in our hands.

A struggle for political freedom cannot depend on any leader.

The Netanyahu trial further revealed that what became clear to him in the cases of Ruth David, Gerstel, Rivlin and Ne'eman, the unclean stable that Aharon Barak built in the heart of our democracy, and therefore he opens the way to clean it.

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Source: israelhayom

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