A-G, State Attorney Hail Ramon Verdict
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For those counting, another proponent, Haim Ramon, who was complicit in the Expulsion from Gush Katif and the Shomron has fallen by way of court conviction for indecent behavior. MB
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Attorney General Menahem Mazuz and State Attorney Eran Shendar expressed their satisfaction Wednesday over former justice minister Haim Ramon’s conviction of committing an indecent act against a female soldier who worked for him at the Prime Minister’s Office. However, the two stressed that “the day on which an Israeli minister is convicted is not an easy one.”
Regarding the court statement on the issue of failures in transferring investigative material to the defense team, Mazuz and Shendar said that it had already been decided that a professional investigation would be conducted, irrespective of the case’s outcome, into the use of wire-tapping. “This investigation will be carried out by the vice president of the Tel Aviv District Court who had already agreed, before the conviction, to take the investigation upon himself,” read a statement from the two.
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Ramon’s Other Failures, By Akiva Eldar (Haaretz)
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Were we to bring Ramon to such a trial, the kiss, on the doorstep of war and on the doorstep of the Prime Minister’s Office, would have only been a peripheral issue in the indictment. Ramon should have had to answer for his significant part and responsibility in two of the greatest failures of recent years: the shattering of secular central authority in the territories, and the obliteration of the peace camp in Israel.
Exhibit “A” in the public trial of the architect of the disengagement and the engineer of convergence, using the do-it-yourself method, is a collection of photographs of the war raging in the Gaza Strip. In order to emphasize the implications for Israel, we should include reports on preparations for a Gaza version of Operation Defensive Shield. In the Israel Defense Forces, as was reported in Haaretz yesterday, there is concern that the violence will not stop at the borders of the Strip. It is worthwhile to add to these quotes from an interview that Ramon gave to Ari Shavit several months prior to the disengagement. “I think that there will be no war,” the minister asserted last spring, and explained that the Palestinians will have something to lose. Their living conditions will be much better, he said.