Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country’s president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges, seeking to end a long-running trial that has bitterly divided the nation.
Netanyahu, who has been at war against Israel’s legal system over the charges, said the request would help unify the country at a time of momentous change in the region. But it immediately triggered denunciations from opponents, who said a pardon would weaken democratic institutions and send a dangerous message that he’s above the rule of law.
Netanyahu had submitted a request for a pardon to the legal department of the Office of the President, the prime minister’s office said in a statement. The president’s office called it an “extraordinary request,” carrying with it “significant implications.”
Remember the time when pardon was a complete humiliation that followed you for the rest of your life, because you basically admitted your guilt. What a time we are living.
A pardon? Those things you get when you definitely committed the crime in question? Significant implications, indeed.
Absolutely. Just do the following first…
- Officially apologize to every Palestinian family for every life lost in decades of conflict.
- Fully dismantle all settlements built on occupied land and return every home, school, and farm.
- Compensate for every square meter of land taken, including lost income and cultural sites.
- Ensure full and unrestricted access to Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem, with reparations for every blockade-induced hardship.
- Return all property confiscated during evictions or military operations.
- Admit and make amends for every instance of detention, displacement, or imprisonment without due process.
- Rebuild all destroyed homes, schools, hospitals, and infrastructure.
- Recognize all refugee claims and fund safe, dignified resettlement or return.
- Fully acknowledge and compensate for the psychological trauma suffered by generations.
- Publicly commit to ending all military occupation and systemic discrimination permanently.
- Implement complete equality in law, services, and political representation for all Palestinians.
- Renounce any historic narratives that justify oppression and commit to truthful education about past wrongs.
- Fund and actively support the creation of a fully sovereign, functional, and internationally recognized Palestinian state.
- Lead and finance the complete rebuilding of Gaza, including infrastructure, housing, healthcare, and education, to meet modern standards.
Fuck you, Bibi.
Never forget that Netanyahu allowed the Oct 7th attack to happen so he could use it as an excuse to scare congress into letting him declare martial law so he didn’t have to go to prison.
Every single Israli and Palestinian that has died as a result of this conflict since the attack, has their blood on Netanyahu’s hands.
yup. his only chance at avoiding consequences is to stay in power as a wartime president.
this is why the ceasefire isn’t a ceasefire. I hope Israel does better but… not holding my breath.
If we had done better with trump in 2016 or j6th none of this shit would have happened.
Give him a Capital punishment for the mass murder of the Gaza people
The president said there is no innocent civilians in Gaza
Sounds like an accomplice to me.
Children’s are innocent
Not according to Israel
Time to wake up the world ,keep it on the news
https://piefed.social/c/world/p/1524802/israeli-attack-kills-two-children-in-gaza-medics-say
Bro they’ve ran over Americans with bulldozers, they do not care and the us won’t back out because their intelligence assets in Israel are worth multiple trillions USD.
Grant it. Make it bluntly obvious for anyone still believing “The only democrcy in the Middle East” slogan.
Maybe Trump will try to pardon him. He thinks he has the authority to close the airspace over a foreign country, he probably thinks he has the power to pardon anyone in the world
“Lots of people think I am corrupt and using martial law to not get punished, which is dividing the country. Please say that I am a good boy and that I am above the law to fix that. BTW: you have to do it; you don’t want a divided nation in this atmosphere we created purposefully to give me this leverage and extra power, do you?”
A terrorist asking another to pardon him
who is the cause of that “momentous change in the region”, i wonder
