"Stop the government coup!" Under this call, crowds gathered last week at the Tel Aviv Museum Square; People who correctly identified the indictments as one long-standing link of a legal system that takes power.

There were those in the audience, as well as the stage, who spoke of Potash's government from the direction of prosecutors and prosecutors against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. However, Netanyahu himself correctly recognized that this is a "method of testimony" by the prosecutor's office. Netanyahu's case is not special except that this is the first prime minister.

As early as 2003, the then Speaker of the Knesset, and today the President of the State, coined the term "the Rule of Law." As early as 2015, the then-Secretary of State, and now the Attorney General, spoke of foreign considerations, the pursuit by the police, leaks and sewing cases by the prosecutor's office.

There were those in the audience, as well as on stage, who were talking about a leftist political agenda and the persecution of rightists. Probably there are people, in the prosecutor's office as elsewhere, who let their ideological perceptions skew their professional work. But the truth is that the prosecutor's office is chasing rightists is exactly the same reason British mountain climber George Mallory climbed mountains: "Because they're there."

Since 1977 there have been more right-wing people in power, and therefore the coup coups have hurt more right-wingers than left-wingers. The method's father, Justice Aharon Barak, included and nurtured it on Yitzhak Rabin, the first prime minister to leave office due to legal proceedings. His loyal successors, who Barak asked for "not to disappoint him," continued with Barak, Sharon, Olmert and Netanyahu. Not to mention the Ministers, senior officers and Knesset members.

They are looking for Netanyahu's head not because he is right-wing, and not because he is corrupt. They are looking for Netanyahu's head because he is prime minister. Because he was elected the number one public, and this crude, rugged power of democratic elections and elected officials must tie the Strip to no control and, God forbid, act according to the will of the people of Israel, a metaphysical entity embodying all that is unlikely and unenlightened in this world. .

The demonstrators realized this. They demanded a fight, encouraging and enthusiastic that for the first time, after many years in which the injustices of the judicial system were Netanyahu's blind spot, he talks about sewing files, he calls in to investigate the investigators and he submits to the prosecutor's office and the attorney general the public indictment we have been waiting for for years.

But, with great pain and sorrow, one has to admit honestly that right now Netanyahu cannot, does not want or is unable to stop the government coup. He broadcasts conflicting and confused messages about the justice system. This is not the way to go to war and certainly not to win it.

Netanyahu continues to glorify the courts that bring respect to Israel, while the Supreme Court presides over a panel of 11 judges to discuss the complicated legal question of whether the Nationality Law - a basic law passed by a majority of 61 Knesset members in all three readings - is valid or not.

He describes the indictments against him as part of a government coup, but leaves the Attorney General and the State Attorney in office, and is bound to obey all of their directives, while he believes they are the leaders of the coup. He calls for "investigating the investigators" as an opposition speaker, but does not set up an investigative committee. Who will investigate the investigators if the Prime Minister, the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Public Security fail to do so?

The campaign to restore democracy and rescue Israel from the rule of law is an important one. But she must not go out without a determined, consistent and thorough warlord. Netanyahu has to decide if he can and wants to be this commander.

Attorney Simcha Rothman is the attorney general of the Movement for Governance and Democracy