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Katsav reneges on plea bargain
Aviram Zino
Published: 08.04.08, 15:24
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1. refuses ? who does he think he is
Simon ,   TA Israel   (04.08.08)
since when does a serial sex offender dictate when he should appear in court or not? its obvious he is making a mockery of the law and prevents justice at every opportuninty. Lets hope he will get a jail sentance and spend the rest of his days behind bars where he belongs!
2. this is what they call a respectable justice system
gid ,   jerusalem   (04.08.08)
3. Still considered inocent until convicted
Eric ,   Tel Aviv   (04.08.08)
He has not been convicted, and both sides have tried to modify the plea agreement along with working on other "proof". If the deal is off, then it is time to charge him and to let him defend himself. Enough of finding guilt in the press.
4. Israel's head in sand
MK ,   Atlanta,USA   (04.08.08)
Keep it up Israel. While you bicker and backstab, and your corrupt politicians scheme, Iran has just kick-started 6,000 new nuclear centrifuges and Hamas continues to stockpile weapons to kill your children and destroy your country. The US has bad leadership, but we would never sit still while rockets land on our cities and hostile neghbors plot our destruction. You people are unbelieveably stupid. Get it together before you find yourselves glowing with fallout.
5. 1. What's your proof Simon? Innuendo , hearsay.
S Judah ,   London   (04.08.08)
Well done Katsav - If you are innocent and I pray that you are. Prove the jackel;s of the media and the feminist hyena's wrong and guilty of their own disgusting behaviour.
6. If he were in America, Mr. Katsav would have a 95% chance of
Rivakh   (04.08.08)
being convicted on any charge whatsoever, with no regard to guilt or innocence, by a District Attorney's frame machine and false witnesses. That is the sad reality of what forme Wall Street Journal editor Paul Craig Roberts called the American INjustice System in an article in the November 2007 issue of Free American magazine. I hope Israel's justice system is better than that. The witnesses have changed their stories and lost their credibility when they did so. The Spanish Inquisition had only a 90% conviction rate and that was recognized by history as totally unfair since the Catholic Church was even digging up Jewish corpses to put on trial to steal their properties.
7. Unfortunately
Iris ,   Jerusalem   (04.08.08)
I agree with you #4 even after haing immirated here from the States 30 years ago. What a shame!!!
8. 4 MK: Wrong. The US gov't has FAILED to protect the States
Rivkah   (04.08.08)
from invasion. Mexican national troops routinely cross the US border in armed military vehicles with machine guns to protect the illegal drug runners. According to Noah Hutchings, there are THIRTY MILLION illegal aliens in America. A third of the prisoners in America are illegal aliens. Ninety-five percent of the outstanding murder arrest warrants in Los Angeles County are for illegal aliens. Illegals steal vehicles with impunity since no matter how many times you steal a car, it is still a misdemeanor not a felony, at least in California. They get drunk and crash into oncoming traffic, killing entire famlies. That happened to my husband who by a miracle walked away with a broken arm after a drunk Mexican illegal switched lanes going 65 or more mph on a two lane highway, crashing into my husband's truck head on. American taxpayers paid for the illegal's hospital bills and he is STILL in America, not having been deported and STILL working without being a legal resident and was never charged with a crime in the years since that happened. The Federal and State and Local governments of America are not protecting the citizens and legal residents by hunting down and deporting illegals like President Eisenhower did. You actually think the American government would CARE if bombs hit America? They attacked Afganistan and Iraq for the WTC and pentagon bombings when it was RED CHINA who trained the pilots, not Saudi Arabia, Al Quaida, or Iran or Iraq or Afganistan . Read "Unrestricted Warfare" by two Red Chinese Colonels to learn who was behind the WTC bombings. it was part of RED CHINA's war plans against America that will progress to nuclear attacks on cities.
9. Katsav is innocent
Brod ,   USA   (04.08.08)
How could a person rise up to such a high position in government if he has a track record of womanizing as his enemies would like to paint it?
10. Mrs. Katsav hearts go out to you...but...
Ami Israel ,   Jerusalem   (04.08.08)
one wonders are you silent because you are afraid or are you silent because you know what actually happened?
11. 9 Brod: Few rise to powerful positions unless those who
Rivkah   (04.08.08)
help put them there have something to blackmail them with. I, too, believe Mr. Katsav was framed since the witnesses have changed their stories which is what liars do. But great faults come with the great in office. As Daniel in the Bible put it: "God rules in the kingdoms of men and sets up over them the basest of men." Whether the faults are exposed to the public depends on who the great man or woman offended or could not be controlled by. Franklin Roosevelt had Lucy Mercer, but that was not publicly exposed until after his death. Dwight David Eisenhower was defamed by a mistress after he died, just as Robert and John Kennedy were tied to Marilyn Monroe after they died. That is what the Greeks called ostracism. When a person or a family becomes to powerful, they are slandered or some misdeed is exposed to force them into exile from the public arena or the area to reduce their influence. Guilt or innocence have little to do with the attacks.
12. Katzav reneges plea bargain
Oskar Prager ,   Petach Tikva   (04.08.08)
If Katzav is now being charged with rape, witness "A" will have to stand in the witness box, and her name will be banded around the world in the media. I am sure she will not be delighted with this, as wherever she will go in the future, people will snigger and make remarks about her. Moreover, from previous reports read in the media, she is an unreliable witness, as were some other claimants, and therefore the prosecution will have a really tough task to make any serious charge stick. Were Katzav being tried by Jury as in other parts of the world, I am convinced he would be acquitted. And here is where Justice Minister could make his mark - let the people judge, not the judges, and let all serious cases be tried by Jury.
13. 10 Ami: Mrs. Katsav is silent because the defense attorneys
Rivkah   (04.08.08)
will quit if their clients discuss the case before it is over.
14. Well done
(04.08.08)
Excellent decision, Mr. Katsav, well done! Let's end this horrific media persecution! Justice has nothing to do with lunatic media reports! Once again: well done!
15. #9 Probably guilty
Soeren ,   Cologne/Germany   (04.08.08)
I guess Mr Katzav might be guilty, I think he did commit the sexual offenses he is accused of. In fact, when people have tremendous power they often think the normal rules don't apply for them – and that they can do whatever they want. When reading about his behaviour at the court, I agree with Simon. "The former president's car traveled back and forth in the courthouse area." He's playing silly games, the court should call him back on earth...
16. No.4 needn't worry....
miri ,   israel   (04.08.08)
Israel's head is not in the sand. Those who are indoctrinated are well aware of the perils we could face and I am sure that the right decisions will be made. As for Katzav, his game is coming to an end and hopefully he will be convicted for abusing his various offices to intimidate young women. Let's not allow him to receive the millions he would have collected had he been an upright individual. Hoping justice will prevail.
17. Rivka
rebecca ,   jerusalem   (04.10.08)
Dear Rivka, you are giving me a headache ! You are just a frustrated and bitter person. I suggest you watch a good movie on Tv, take one sleeping pill and go sleep for a few hours. It will do you good.
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