Israel’s Netanyahu seeks pardon to end corruption trial • FRANCE 24 English

Netanyahu Aaron is still supposed to testify in trial tomorrow. His trial has not yet been cancelled. Although, as you correctly said, that is de facto what he’s requesting. Netanyahu, more than anything else, has once again thrown a big flaming hot wrench into the Israeli political system. and his statement today and his letter and his lawyer’s 111page submission to the president of Israel are as much political a kind of defiant political statement as a legal effort. Let me explain why that is. Under the law of the state of Israel, in order to be pardoned, you have to be a convicted criminal. That is the the current law. The president in fact doesn’t really have the ability to pardon anyone who is not a convicted criminal. And Netanyahu not only is uh trying to prevent his trial from going to term um and for there to be any verdict but has been trying de facto to cancel his trial as you alluded to for even longer than this war. His efforts to cancel this judgment began at least a year before the war uh when he was reelected to power and launched what has been called the reform of the administration of the state. His so-called judicial reform uh kind of civilian coupeta to change the balance of power between the judiciary the executive um and um the legislation in Israel. That is what we’re seeing. So Netanyahu has not accepted any responsibility for any of the crimes of which he’s accused and in fact his letter submitted to the president of Israel which is a required phase. You have to personally request a pardon in Israel does not ask for pardon. The word pardon isn’t listed there. So we are going to have to take a step back and see um how the president responds and how the legal system responds because the president though he is the titular head of state doesn’t have absolute power there’s still a system through which requests for pardons have to go and Netanyahu has a long way to go before uh I believe we will see any real resolution following this very dramatic uh request announced today. So it sounds like Noah that a lot of things have to fall into place in order for him to be eligible so to speak uh for pardoning. But as we wait for that to happen I mean if all of those things do happen rather what are his chances in your view of his being pardoned? So this is the you know milliondoll question right now. To what extent has Netanyahu already submitted the institutions of the Israeli state after many years of an effort to take over the levers of power? To what extent has he already succeeded? Um there were some indications today in the reaction the initial reaction that appeared coordinated with Nataniel’s uh request the reaction from the president of the state who said and I’m quoting that he will take very seriously that he will seriously um examine this request. The president of course had the ability from the first minute to say this is not an actual request for pardon. It doesn’t mention pardon. The prime minister isn’t taking responsibility. I’ll wait and see what else he does. The president left it understood that he will take this request seriously. So we may actually see a complete about face and a precedent in which the prime minister in fact is determined not to be subject to the rule of law in Israel. That is what Netanyahu is asking and that is what the entire population of Israel is now waiting to see. There are already protests on the street in front of the president’s home demanding that he reject this outright. There is a tremendous amount of concern and the um leader of the Democrat party, the the Labor Party in Israel has already said, quoting President Trump um that only someone guilty requests a pardon. I mentioned this because Netanyahu provided two reasons for this request in a videotape statement he made today. In one, he said that he was making this request so as to give peace to the people of Israel. He said it was his own interest to pursue the trial and to prove his innocence, but the people of Israel need a rest bit. The second reason he gave is that he said President Trump has already requested that he be pardoned and so he is respecting that request. That is the very precipice where things stand right now. Um, and I think we’re going to have to wait to see how legal matters develop over the next few days before we can really gauge what Netanyahu’s chances are to annull his corruption trial that has threatened his rule on Power.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the country’s president on Sunday for a pardon in his long-running corruption trial, arguing that the criminal proceedings were hindering his ability to govern and that a pardon would be good for Israel. Under Israeli law, however, the president does not have the power to pardon someone who is not a convicted criminal, FRANCE 24’s Noga Tarnopolsky said, noting that no verdict has yet been rendered on Netanyahu, who is actively seeking to prevent his trial from reaching its conclusion.
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40 comments

  2. I CALLED NETANYAHU “ SAITIN YAHOO “ 25 years ago for a reason
    ( The Devil was condemned in hell because he is a masterful LIAR )😂🤣

  6. Wasnt he becoming increasingly unpopular even before the "glider event"?

    Isnt that country home to one of the most protected borders?

    Doesnt it have one of the most infamous INT agencies in the world?

  7. Usually people ask for a pardon after confessing or being convicted. So is he confessing? He could bring the trial to a quick end.

  18. Netanyahu will end up in Hague as Milosevic. He can lie and twist and make Israel from democratic country to authoritarian corrupt cess pit, but he can't do that with Europe and ICC!

  19. Thank you, President Trump for suggesting a pardon for Benjamin Netanyahu you both are saviors of the state of Israel 🇮🇱 ,of the Jewish people never again famous words we were chosen by God we are righteous, and the only evil people are a barbarians that committed October 7. God bless America. God bless state of Israel.

  23. His people have a right to know what he did.

    If he is convicted then he can ask for a pardon.

    If he confesses to the charges of the trial and is convicted, then he can ask for a pardon sooner.

  29. Netanyahu has alienated Jews the world over and good job! It was about time we all see them for who they really are and how it was that we fought the wrong enemies in WWII (and most likely WWI as well, although my knowledge of it is shady at best). "We fought the wrong enemy" – George S. Patton (and I truly believe he was talking about Jews and Russia as being the correct enemies in this case) He knew right away after going through the press exclusion zone, that the Jews in Germany had stolen it's wealth for themselves, leaving most Germans without enough to buy a loaf of bread. That's why the press was excluded – so they could cover up the truth of the matter! Raegan was under their control. Trump is under their control. One impoverished us with his "trickle down economics" scam, and the other is back to finish the job. Conservatives are complicit in this. We have a BIG PROBLEM on our hands in that Jews cannot be trusted to reside or do business in Canada/America any longer and nobody is acting to protect us because our protectors have apparently all been bribed by Jews! I fear this will get so bad as to cause WWIII, which I predict will begin in May of 2026 as Trump goes mad and effects a junta against the American people, seizing control of the military in order to attack a weakened, impoverished Canada. This was all the Jew plan from the beginning and our governments are complicit.

  30. Well that's a new one. Pardoned before you're even sentenced 😮 Guilty much? These rich people & these politicians really need to stop with the special treatment.

  40. Bari Weiss( at the new cbs) at her Free Press substack will give you a bucket load of reasons for Bibis Pardoning. After all of this , he has to go to trial , but I think he's afraid of ending up like bolsonaro , unable to talk his way out of a sentence

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