T. Belman. Smotrich is right. The IDF is doubling down on their condemnation of the soldier as it would look very bad indeed if the soldier were acquitted. Given the fact that the public is with the soldier and not the IDF, this matter should be decided by a jury of the soldiers peers even if it has to go to a criminal court rather than a military court.
What is at stake here is our values. The IDF claims to be protecting those values. The people are saying you have our values wrong.
There are numerous cases in criminal law where the Jury refused to convict because to do so didn’t seem right to them or didn’t accord with their values.
MK Smotrich demands explanation for reports that IDF hired top private lawyer to prosecute soldier for shooting neutralized terrorist.
MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home) sent a letter to IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkott on Tuesday morning, following reports that the IDF put a lawyer from a large firm into the reserves in order to serve as a prosecutor.
Smotrich asked Eizenkott to explain the reasoning for the move, as well as how much the military is paying for the lawyer’s services.
Yediyot Aharonot reported that the military prosecutor decided to strengthen its ranks with a top-rated private lawyer, and enlisted him into the reserves. The lawyer, Nadav Weisman, is a prosecutor and senior partner in Israel’s largest legal firm.
Weisman is also a lieutenant colonel in the IDF, where he served as a prosecutor in the judicial corps. During his service, he handled a number major cases, including that of Staff Sergeant Assaf Waxman, who was killed when an APC overturned, and the case of Sergeant Roi Dror from Duvdevan, who dehydrated and died during a training exercise.
The report stated that the military prosecutor needs significant reinforcements in order to handle the legal team representing Elor Azariya, the soldier who killed a neutralized terrorist. His defense attorneys include former Deputy Military Advocate General Ilan Katz, Eyal Besserglick and Beni Malka.
Military sources were quoted as saying hiring Weisman shows that the prosecution does not intend to back down and is not afraid of taking the case to court, even if it means forcing officers and soldiers to take the stand.
Max Said:
Sorry about the link. Your above is correct. A reservation for Jews.
@ honeybee:
Link is no good.
@ Max:
@ bernard ross
Look a here boys, I have beendefending this young soldier on the “Times of Israel” for month, where were yawl.
Israel wages war on the IDF.
He did not kill a neutralized terrorist. Terrorists aren’t neutralized until they are dead.
What happened to Israelis? Most of their brains go potty?
You put the IslamoNazi in prison, it gives the rest of the Islamonazis motivation to go rescue him.
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Imagine doing this in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
If anyone thinks that is something that is finished, think again.
What is Israel but a Jewish Ghetto surrendered by murderous genocidal Nazis?
bernard ross Said:
this is a perfect example which shows the priorities of the BB Yaalon agenda. Returning the bodies swiftly is the goal.. who is that for, why the need to be swift? What about the soldiers, why are they less important than returning bodies of terrorists to those who want to kill them? I dont know… but the repetitive pattern which trashes the soldiers and nationalists and spends time and energy fulfilling the desires of enemy terrorists appears to me to be a very sick and disgusting agenda… something is rotten with Likud. Who knows what.. is it the deals with abbas, or the GCC, or egypt, or perhaps with Herzog? I am sure there is some sick agenda behind this MO of trashing Jews and giving terrorists what they want… like that port they are hoping to give to hamas.
I think there is more to it than just the usual political corruption of covering up ones mistakes. I dont know exactly what it is but I beleive it will relate to all his under the table political deals. Later we will see how this repetitive criminal MO, in fact a criminal conspiracy to influence justice, which started with Duma and involved at least BB, Yaalon, Erdan and Rivlin. I beleive it is all tied together and later we will see why… there will be an event, or a gain for BB, or some result which will shine a light on the why they are doing this criminal behavior. there can be no doubt that there is an obsessive vendetta taking place but I beleive it is actually a rational MO with a purpose and goal. The pattern indicates a rational, intentional, thought out agenda.
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I am sure that the fool Jews who have bee backing BB all along will once more continue to make excuses
Eisenkot is only a puppet of Yaalon the megalomaniacal Inspector Javits with an obsession to punish and incarcerate dissenters and Jews……
but then Yaalon is only a stooge and front for the Teflon Don BB, who very cleverly always makes sure to put distance between himself and any action unpopular with the fools who panicked from Bennett to vote for Likud.
the explanation to smotrich is simple: Yaalon BB and cronies have as I have been demonstrating, been following the same MO of publically and criminally abusing their positions of authority on a serial basis by repeatedly declaring dissenters guilty without evidence in order to intentionally and criminally influence the proceedings to end with a guilty. They did it with ettinger, uriel and the soldier.. its a criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice, hijack the system to their own ends in a manner which if properly investigated by a normal democratic nation would end in their impeachment and incarceration for crimes much worse than olmert or katsav.
Yaalon, on behalf of BB must make sure that the soldier is found guilty and incarcerated in order to maintain the big lie that he is not engaged in criminal conspiracy to obstruct and influence the justice process. In this I am sure they have the support of the foreign paid leftist moles.
BB is a greater political deal maker than trump… we cannot see his motives because they are always under the table hidden from view and covered with a fig leaf. But his pattern is repetitive… he is always getting something for what he does under the table, like this I predict:
so what will BB give to Turkey for this admittance to NATO? and folks thought Trump was a dealmaker. BB has deals with the gulf monarchies, abbas, egypt… but we never know what they are.. only that whenever he does something strange there is something rotten and secretive behind it.. here is a minor example of how he operates his Teflon Don MO:
did the fools who keep voting for Likued and BB notice what he did there:
First he appeared to be responding to his constituents who voted for him but I expect it was a fake like E1, etc. so what did he do next? He did not just return the bodies himself he first appointed a red herring stooge(the usual one) to give him distance and plausible denial of responsibility for his intended action and then he has his stooge take the action. Its well worked out, he uses it all the time, it works… his voters get angry with the stooge and direct their anger at the red herring…. and BB sits back to enjoy his teflon experience. those who seriously want to understand what is going on can see this same MO repeatedly during his admin. Bull shit announcements, followed by a betrayal, but first usually letting time pass and/or providing a stooge or fig leaf to allow him to escape responsibility. In this way they keep voting him back although he never has done anything to advance the cause, but tons to obstruct it.
@ keelie:
Trump is a more vigorous supporter of Israeli soldiers the the entire IDF command.
I guess this means that the IDF isn’t about to consider putting captured terrorist murderers to the firing squad.
If the IDF eventually goes after ISIS, the entire country will become one giant prison to contain the tens of thousands (at least) of ISIS members captured. And the hospitals will be working ‘way beyond capacity saving wounded ISIS members. Such (misplaced) morality. Tikkun Olam indeed! Israel might as well be part of Western Europe.