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Israel's President is YET ANOTHER sexual pervert/predator in high places
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Police: Indict Katsav for rape
By Yuval Yoaz and Jonathan Lis
Attorney General Menachem Mazuz is expected to decided within two to three weeks to indict President Moshe Katsav for sexual offenses and other crimes, including personal corruption. The expected charges include an allegation that has not yet been publicized: using state funds to buy personal gifts.
Although the actual indictment is not expected for a few more months, police and prosecution officials said yesterday that they consider an indictment to be a fait accompli.
A report summarizing the police inquiry, which was handed to Mazuz and State Prosecutor Eran Shendar yesterday, indicates that in addition to the three investigations of Katsav's alleged misconduct that have already been reported - regarding sexual offenses, improper clemency procedures and illegal wiretapping - the president is also suspected of having dipped into state funds for several years to pay for dozens of personal gifts to associates that were worth hundreds of shekels each.
Police have found sufficient evidence on this matter to charge him with fraud and breach of trust.
Mazuz will not make a final decision on the indictment before holding a hearing at which Katsav can argue his innocence. Before this hearing can take place, Mazuz will need to give Katsav's attorney a few months to go over the investigative material and prepare their case. Mazuz is expected to refuse any plea bargain or agreement under which Katsav would agree to retire from public life in exchange for the case against him being closed or certain charges being dropped. In any case, Katsav can be expected to resign as president due to public pressure.
The police recommendations submitted yesterday did not refer to the possibility that senior officials at the President's Residence other than Katsav, or some of the president's other associates, could also be indicted. Several of his associates were questioned on suspicion of involvement in some of the illegal activities of which Katsav is accused. Police are expected to submit recommendations regarding Katsav's associates within the next few days.
Katsav suspected of raping two women
The bulk of the evidence against Katsav relates to the sexual offenses of which he is accused. Police have found evidence that Katsav raped two women: the principal complainant, a former President's Residence employee identified only as A., and another woman, also identified as A., who worked under Katsav while he was minister of tourism. Police have also found significant evidence linking Katsav to forcible indecent acts, nonconsensual indecent acts and sexual harassment.
Investigators have collected a large amount of evidence to support the contentions of the women who accused Katsav of rape, but the evidence is purely circumstantial, including testimony from family members and friends of the women who were told of the incidents at the time. Police concluded on the basis of this evidence that the women were credible witnesses. But despite their efforts, police were unable to locate more tangible evidence, such as semen stains, that would support the complainants' contentions.
Police have not found sufficient evidence to charge the principal complainant with attempting to blackmail Katsav.
Altogether, there appears to be sufficient evidence to indict Katsav for sexual offenses involving five women. Additional complainants are expected to be summoned to testify against him at his trial to reinforce the argument that Katsav had a specific modus operandi in relation to women.
Police have also found sufficient evidence to indict Katsav on charges of illegal wiretapping: He was found to have installed equipment on telephones that allowed him to listen in on the conversations of President's Residence employees.
However, there is insufficient evidence to charge him with improprieties in the clemency procedure.
Katsav is also suspected of obstructing justice and harassing a witness. Both Katsav himself and his associates allegedly exerted pressure on several of the women who accused him of sexual offenses. However, the investigation of this matter has not yet been completed, and police will question the president once more on the issue.
"There are a few people who felt themselves to be under pressure, from Katsav himself and from his people," said a senior legal official familiar with the case.
Police sources said that parts of Katsav's testimony, which he provided during five days of questioning, were baseless.
Mazuz, who has been personally following the investigation of the president, has already read some of the key witness testimony in the case and is expected to adopt most of the recommendations made yesterday by the head of the police investigations and intelligence division, Major General Yohanan Danino, and the head of the task force that investigated the case, Brigadier General Yoav Segalovich. However, the police still have to tie up a few loose ends in the various investigations.
The Jerusalem district prosecution has spent the last few weeks analyzing the evidence collected thus far and is preparing an opinion for Shendar and Mazuz. It is also working on a draft indictment against Katsav.
However, Justice Ministry officials stressed that much work remains to be done. "The work of the prosecution is expected to continue over the next few weeks," said one.
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Analysis: An election there will be
Anshel Pfeffer, THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 23, 2007
Theoretically President Moshe Katsav could still be exonerated in court, but asides from the effect that a not-guilty verdict will have on Katzav personally and his family, for the country it will have been too late.
Katsav might eventually evade the stiff penalties accorded by law to the offenses he is being charged with but his presidency is over, our second consecutive Head of State forced out in disgrace. The damage done to the highest office in the land will not end with Katsav's departure. Whatever the outcome of his trial, it will be an ugly and vicious saga, filled with embarrassing intimate details of the goings-on within the walls of the state mansion in Rehavya and ultimately cause many of us to question the very necessity of the institution.
It should have been easy to summarize Katsav's term in office, at least his first six years. None of the initiatives he launched resulted in very much and his influence in public affairs was negligible; but he received a great deal of credit for restoring stability and decorum to the presidency that had been rocked and buffeted during Ezer Weitzman's tumultuous years. That was enough. The last months have totally eliminated that sole achievement.
Without any significant powers or responsibilities, the President should supply a focal-point and a sense of identity to a divided nation; instead what we'll remember of the last two presidents is Weitzman's meddling in politics finally ended by the Saroussi financial scandal and the deep shame of Katsav's ignominious end. Why should we bother at all with the business of electing a new president? Let's just convert the mansion into a cheap housing project for young couples, it's ugly enough.
But a presidential election there will be; though there is considerable support for electoral reform that will abolish the dual positions of president and prime minister, there is no way that the intricate necessary legislation can be completed on time. And surprisingly perhaps, there are still a few people willing to run for the job, despite the almost unbearable scrutiny that a prospective president can now expect into all his affairs.
That will almost certainly keep away all but the most seasoned and hard-boiled politicians, immune after years under the spotlights in the media arena. Names mentioned in the past like Professor Amnon Rubinstein and Rabbi Yisrael Lau are almost certain not to appear on the presidential short-list. The job simply isn't worth the risk of humiliation.
Labor's Collette Avital and Likud's Rubi Rivlin are two MKs who feel they have nothing to hide and are so far the only ones to have taken the plunge and announced their candidacies.
The lack of a candidate so far from the ruling party is yet another sign of Kadima's weakening grip on power; Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres, the eternal candidate is still waiting for progress on the new law to turn the Knesset vote into an open one, without he is loath to risk yet another electoral defeat; if he doesn't run, his prot g Knesset Speaker Dalya Itzik, very soon to be the caretaker president might well announce her candidacy but unlike her predecessor on the podium, the avuncular Rivlin, acid-tongued Itzik has made few friends across the aisles and her chances against him in a secret ballot are not rated highly.
But despite the political prestige involved, the selection of a new president is far from being the most pressing matter on the national agenda.
Attorney General Menahem Mazuz's decision to accept the harsh recommendations of the police investigation team over Jerusalem District Attorney Eli Abarbanel's opinion that lighter charges be brought against Katsav, hot on the heals of the decision last week to launch a criminal investigation against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in the Bank Leumi sale, the earth-shattering investigation at the Tax Authorities and Mazuz's controversial to press charges of sexual harassment against former Justice Minister Hayim Ramon all exhibit a newfound intolerance towards corruption and criminality at the highest level.
Former Attorney General Amnon Rubinstein and Mazuz at the start of his term, were reluctant to press charges against the mightiest in the land. Prime Ministers Binyamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon all underwent police investigations but none of them reached the charges threshold that would have forced them to leave office. With more impending investigations against Olmert and other senior ministers, Mazuz is sending a clear message, the threshold has been lowered.
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Re: Israel's President is YET ANOTHER sexual pervert/predator in high places
This is the next-to-last paragraph in the article that Joseph posted above:
“Attorney General Menahem Mazuz's decision to accept the harsh recommendations of the police investigation team over Jerusalem District Attorney Eli Abarbanel's opinion that lighter charges be brought against Katsav, hot on the heals of the decision last week to launch a criminal investigation against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in the Bank Leumi sale, the earth-shattering investigation at the Tax Authorities and Mazuz's controversial to press charges of sexual harassment against former Justice Minister Hayim Ramon all exhibit a newfound intolerance towards corruption and criminality at the highest level.”
For this reason, I started a new topic in this same forum, devoted to the criminal investigation of Olmert, that I titled; “Israel’s PM, Olmert, is facing CRIMINAL charges at home!,” at this URL:
http://com3.runboard.com/btheowlsnest.f17.t10816
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Re: Israel's President is YET ANOTHER sexual pervert/predator in high places
Aaron,
Along with others on different subjects in TFTF, you've "brought home" your points about Israel's top government officials being NOT typical of God-fearing and Morality-driven leaders, but instead greedy and lustful men with little regard for human lives.
By implication, this also proves Joseph's and your position, that the modern State of Israel CANNOT BE the one as was described and promised by the scriptural prophets, which position is widely held among the JEWISH ant-Zionism organizations that you'd named and linked for us.
I separately applaud and thank you for your time and efforts in bringing these aspects to our attention, and for using mostly pro-Zionism Jewish and Israeli web sites as your sources.
Bob
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