In 2020, a lieutenant colonel in the Intelligence Corps received 28 days of bandage. Another officer of the same rank was dismissed from the army. An officer with the rank of brigadier general was reprimanded. What is the harsh punishment for? The senior officers used an agent to bring milling from the territories.
The standard of punishment in the army is moral and sharp: you made a mistake – you were eliminated. In 2015, he was dismissed from the service of a colonel who forgot classified documents in the car. Not long ago, an army major was given 25 days of probation and removal from duty because he participated in a demonstration wearing a uniform. If you pay for bringing boxes of milling from the territories in a bandage and at the end of your military career, what is the punishment for the people who made the wrong decisions that destroyed people's lives, damaged hundreds of millions of shekels and trolled an entire country?!
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Here's an equation that the attorney general and the prosecution don't know about – mistakes are paid for. Every indictment filed by the State Prosecutor's Office should make them tremble, not sleep at night. Human lives are at stake. The chances of people who got into trouble beating the system are slim. Along the way, they will lose their good name, their friends and their money to a lawyer. There is no room for error. When it comes to blaming a prime minister, caution should be much greater, on a personal and national level. This decision has implications for all of our lives – instability, rifts, rifts, political boycotts and re-elections. The damages are enormous.
Let's just say that retired judge Hila Gerstel, who was appointed auditor of the State Prosecutor's Office, is wrong. Let's just say we didn't believe her when she said that the State Attorney's Office has a problem of accuracy in telling the truth, that there is a problem of cutting corners and that something is sick in the system. Let's assume that Mandelblit, Nitzan or Elsheikh did not act deliberately, but only "made a mistake." What is the price of such a "mistake"? Who will pay it?
Let's assume he was "just" wrong. Who will pay for the mistake? Mandelblit, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
In these systems, everything is reversed. Shlomo Benizri was tried, denounced, imprisoned and ended his political career. Years later, the state's witness admitted that he had lied and asked for forgiveness. The police and prosecutor's officers not only did not pay for the malfunction - they were even promoted, and today they hold senior positions in their systems.
Who will be sentenced to 28 days in prison for Zadorov serving 16 years in prison? Who pays for serious and shocking suspicions against Aryeh Deri for taking bribes, which ended in Mandelblit's words as "the mountain gave birth to a mouse"?
Something about the balance of power is screwed up. For example, on the economic issue. A defendant who decides to manage such cases will lose millions of shekels out of his own pocket. How much money did Alsheikh, Nitzan or Mandelblit lose out of their own pockets on investigations worth hundreds of millions of shekels, which seek to accuse them of dramatic "bribery" but receive the cold shoulder from the judges?
On the way, he may lose his reputation and money to a lawyer. Netanyahu, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
It is precisely from this place that the audacity and audacity of Attorney General Gali Bahar-Miara come from. The judges say, "We heard the prosecution, get off the bribe," and Bahar-Miara insists on continuing. Why? What does she care? Is the administration of the trial out of her own pocket? This is the time to determine that the State Attorney's Office and the Attorney General will also pay a price. Bahar-Miara wants to continue the bribery charge? No problem, but if you make a mistake and fail after the judges signal that you will pay the price, what is the price? The army can teach.
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