Q&A: Plea Bargain for Netanyahu
Plea Bargain for Netanyahu
Question
What is the Rabbi's opinion regarding a plea bargain for Netanyahu?
Is it proper to end the story this way, or is it preferable that justice be clarified in court?
In addition, does the push for an agreement show anything about the conduct of the prosecution's office (that indeed everything was to remove him from power), or about Netanyahu (that indeed there was nothing there)?
Thank you
Answer
It is definitely not proper to end it this way. After all the uproar, the matter needs to be clarified in court one way or the other. In my opinion, nothing in the world can justify a deal in this case. If there is an evidentiary difficulty, then let the court decide and acquit him. And if there is no evidentiary difficulty, then there is certainly no justification for a deal.
Unfortunately, legal certainty in Israel is in very bad shape, so people cannot know what will come out in the verdict, and willingness to make a deal does not say much about guilt or innocence.
Discussion on Answer
Unless the purpose of the indictment is political liquidation, in which case a plea deal with moral turpitude delivers the goods, without needing to gamble on the judges cooperating with the conspiracy..
Aharon Barak is the great saint of the Israeli elite.
The meaning of the word elite in Israel today (and in the past as well—Plato's idea of the philosopher-king) is "those at the top of the public pyramid" in Israel who enjoy taxpayers' money every single day—whether right now in their actual positions or through a fat budgetary pension that reaches their bank account month after month.
Our dear Aharon Barak, after being exposed to the defense material and the continuation of the trial, knows very well that on the day Netanyahu goes to prison, the entire elite of the pyramid will collapse at once at the hands of the base of the pyramid—namely, the Jewish people who pay the taxes.
As Dr. Moshe Bar-Natan said, this is a historic milestone in which the "elite betrayed the people."
And therefore we are all watching the hourglass of the budget-pension grabbers running out, as they do not understand that as long as they betrayed their people and conspired against the elected representative of the base of the people,
they are drawing closer day by day to their great downfall.
Amen, may it be so.
Aharon Barak explains here why one should go for a deal: