Silverstein Caught In Another Lie: Lieberman Only Protecting His Son

Richard Silverstein, convicted chronic liar has once again erred:

Israel’s likely next foreign minister is a convicted child beater.

Taming response:

Obviously Lieberman isn't a child beater if he was protecting bullies out to hurt his kid. Wouldn't any good parent protect his child against several other kids trying to hurt him? Maybe Richard wouldn't because for him, being the victim is always the moral position to be in. Perhaps because he supports Jews being beaten up? Read the original article below:

Lieberman plea accepted, fines total NIS 17,500

By Etgar Lefkovits

September 26, 2001

JERUSALEM (September 26) - The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court yesterday accepted the plea bargain reached between National Infrastructure Minister Avigdor Lieberman and the State Attorney's Office. Lieberman admitted to assaulting two Jewish boys after they attacked his son.
While accepting the plea bargain and fining Lieberman NIS 17,500, the three-judge panel censured Lieberman for never expressing remorse for his actions, which they said were not "a spontaneous reaction," as his defense attorney had claimed.
Lieberman responded that he never voiced regret to the boys' families out of fear that such a statement would "obstruct justice."
For the second day in a row, Lieberman refused to talk to reporters.
The incident occurred in December 1999 near Lieberman's home in Nokdim, south of Jerusalem.

Under the terms of the plea bargain, first announced in court on Monday, Lieberman confessed to assaulting the two teenagers after they beat his 12-year-old son as he made his way home.

In return, the prosecution reduced the charge against Lieberman.

His attorney's arguments that his actions were the "normal and minor response" of a justifiably angered parent and that the incident was nothing more than "a typical squabble between neighbors" were rejected.

"The actions of the accused were not so minor in their nature. We are not talking about one lone action that was taken as a spontaneous reaction and without forethought, but a series of actions that were carried out over a period of time that was enough for the accused to have calmed down and not carried them out," the judges said.

Lieberman found one of the boys who had beaten his son hiding in a caravan near his house and hit him in the face.

He then took the boy by the collar and drove him to his home in nearby Tekoa, where he allegedly threatened to hit the boy again should he ever return to Nokdim.

The court fined Lieberman NIS 7,500 and ordered him to pay NIS 10,000 compensation to the boy he hit.

Lieberman pledged not to commit such an act within the next two years, lest he be jailed for a minimum of 10 days.

The prosecution repeatedly emphasized that plea bargains are typical in cases such as Lieberman's, and noted that he did not receive special treatment.

Though his political opponents demanded that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon immediately dismiss Lieberman following his confession, the judges shied away from the politically charged issue, though they said the incident was "an unforgivable act of violence" by a civil servant.

The judges acknowledged, however, that the highly publicized proceedings against Lieberman "hurt him more than they would an ordinary citizen."

In a stern reproach just 24 hours before the start of Yom Kippur in which Lieberman was told it is up to him to express remorse, Judge Shulamit Dotan concluded her remarks by quoting from Ecclesiastes 11: "Therefore remove vexation from your heart.