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Defense minister urges IDF pardon for Azaria after appeal rejected
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleDefense Minister Avigdor Liberman weighs in after Elor Azaria’s appeal is rejected by the military appeals court.
“I’m asking the Azaria family not to appeal again, but to turn to the chief of staff to ask for a pardon. I have no doubt that the chief of staff will take all the difficult circumstances into account, including that [Azaria] was an excelling soldier,” Liberman tweets.
The chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, has the power to grant pardons within the army. The defense minister appears to be indirectly urging the head of the IDF to employ that power in Azaria’s case, despite two courts’ findings that he willfully killed an incapacitated Palestinian assailant in an act of vengeance.
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