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Opinion | Disgrace will not tarnish Netanyahu's legacy either Israel today

2022-01-23T00:32:27.585Z


The attempt to establish legal disgrace today is just another means of trying to produce the public stain, which has not been achieved so far, despite the pressure cooker that has been exerted on the public for years


The undecided discussion of the plea deal drained this week to the question of disgrace.

It became clear that not only was this issue not legally anchored and dependent on the moral view of each judge, but that senior members of the judiciary conditioned the question of morality on the defendant's political positions toward the system itself.

However, even those (on the right) who understand that disgrace is another legal tool in the basket of means used to complete the political coup, tend - inadvertently - to err and play by the same rules of the game and the same framework of discourse set by Netanyahu's opponents.

The continued existence of the law, in order to expose the ills of the system and the injustice inherent in it - is unbearably important. But the claim, at the same time, that if a plea agreement is signed, it will tarnish Netanyahu's legacy, or even, God forbid, erase it - gives the wrong legal narrative the wrong power, and makes it predict everything. Netanyahu's legacy is greater and stronger than any legal aspect. It is forbidden, by mistake, to participate in attempts to write history.

Suppose for a moment that Netanyahu runs the trial to the end, and even if the ruling leads to the dismissal of the charges - will those who shout "disgrace", and shout for four years "bribery, fraud and breach of trust", change their minds? The question is rhetorical, of course. The story of the submarines is a clear example of this. Even after the police investigation ended with an explicit statement that Netanyahu was unrelated to the issue, those conspirators did not make the decision and continued to look for another path to harm him, this time through a commission of inquiry. Because Netanyahu's persecution, after all, was not born with the indictment, not even in the last decade. Netanyahu was defined as a "dangerous man" in an article by Yossi Sarid in Haaretz in 1988, when he did not yet have a significant political record. But the potential to become the leader of the national camp made him dangerous. Obviously dangerous.

The attempt to establish legal disgrace today is just another means of trying to produce the public stain, which has not been achieved so far, despite the pressure cooker that has been exerted on the public for years. Because for the person who turned the State of Israel into a political, security and economic power, there is only one story. One legacy. A legacy of power. It is too short to describe all his achievements, but I will agree on some of them. In the economic arena, Israel has for the first time since its establishment joined the prestigious club of the 20 leading economies in the world. Within a decade, Israel has moved from a situation in which it is dependent on Egyptian gas to a situation in which it supplies gas to Egypt and Jordan, and is already on track to transport gas to Europe. At the same time, Israel became a high-tech and cyber power. And above all, the transition to a free market economy is complete. In the security-political arena, Israel has led the stubborn struggle against Iran by all means and on all fronts. Netanyahu reduced the "Palestinian problem" to pre-Oslo dimensions, and signed four peace agreements that together brought about no less than a strategic revolution. At the same time, he formed new international alliances in Europe,In South America and Africa - which made Israel a regional power.

This legacy - which shows its signs in every home in Israel, hovers over every diplomatic meeting and is carried by the mouths of leaders from all over the world - no "disgrace" engineered in legal acrobatics will tarnish.

Because we are here to document it and tell it, as it is.

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Source: israelhayom

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