It turns out that Ofer Shelah, once a media person, is allowed to be sent to journalists • This is how he threatened an ultra-Orthodox journalist - and none of his former colleagues will demand an apology from him • Opinion

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  Oren Ben Hakun

Imagine that Prime Minister Netanyahu would come for a taped interview in the Knesset studio. Imagine they were asking him a question he didn't like, and in response would scream at the presenter with these words: "You have the audacity of any alumni to erase this thing before it ends in a lawsuit against you. You are a zero piece. I am now on your way to your boss."

Imagine that not only did the Knesset channel surrender to Netanyahu's bullying and censor the interview with a disgraceful scorn from the interviewer - but also conduct a new and cumbersome interview with him. Imagine that despite the massive concealment efforts, the sheltered interview was modeled, and soon the channel's captains would launch a hunt for the "leaks" while sending 15 workers to the polygraph and launching layoffs against some.

Imagine that only three months later this amazing information, a real journalistic bomb, would find its way to the Ynet site. The journalists and their various organizations would lose their voices with the cries of "the end of democracy" and law enforcement and retired police investigators would inform the public: "There is no escape" from the opening and interrogation and birth of Case 5000 against Netanyahu - for extortion of journalist threats.

Ofer's statement sent before High Court hearing // Photo: Ami Shamir

Now, stop imagining.

The unimaginable threats were indeed mitigated, the censorship of the interview did occur, and at these moments there are journalists and media outlets who could lose their livelihood because their bosses preferred to protect an embarrassed politician than them.

But one thing did not happen yesterday: the politician in question did not call Benjamin Netanyahu - but sent dirt. Yes, that former journalist, a well-versed sportswriter and commentator with the general knowledge of sailing (that's at least the image), who, unlike Miri Regev or Uncle Amsalem, never "won" a mocking role in a "great country." To send, it turns out, is allowed to send in a journalist, Haredi must be noted, screaming at him if he hit his wife, threatening him with a "bossy" appeal - but hardly any of his former colleagues would even demand an apology from him.

Ironically, the Knesset channel that was sheltered by Shelah is operated by the RGE Group - also the owner of no other news 13. That is, with one hand, RGE scans the Knesset channel workers with iron combs and cleanses its journalists to please Shelah and Yair Lapid because of Rahmana's leak With her other hand, RGE gives Rabbe Drucker, Shalah's friend, a fat and handy salary, to publish model investigative material from Case 4000 to pump out the narrative that Netanyahu "edited the Walla site" because he wanted to change a sentence and a half in an interview with Dov Gil-Har in the 2015 election.

In that "Aruch" interview, by the way, the senior Netanyahu claimed that he "spit on Obama's face." Consider how he would respond to a similar question. The truth is, there is nothing to be surprised about. We live too long in a disturbing reality where two separate systems of law and morality exist, which differ on the basis of political affiliation: to the right almost everything is forbidden, to the left almost everything is allowed. This madness must stop.