"...sources say if he wasn`t PM , he would have been arrested" Friday`s English edition headline proclaims. But your sources apparently refer only to `accusations` and `suspicions`. Should we infer that citizens of a democratic Israel are liable to be arrested on the basis of accusations and suspicions, rather than reliable, factual evidence? If that is the case, then it is our judicial system that is in jeopardy, as much as the Prime Minister.
Elsewhere, you report that Olmert`s legal team are seeking a court injuncion to allow them access to documentary evidence. In any acceptable legal system, isn`t the accused guaranteed free and open access to the evidence against him? It is only the defense that has the legal right to conceal evidence that might incriminate the accused.
I expected much more of the Ha`aretz reporters and its Editorial Board. Or do you dislike and distrust Olmert so much that you think it necessary to mislead, rather than inform your readers? |
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