The unreasonable amount of witnesses against Netanyahu indicates a loss of proportions • People who tend to go against trampling on suspected rights, this time chose to ignore the phenomenon • Interpretation

• State Attorney Shai Nitzan // Photo: Yossi Zeliger

The criminal law enforcement system is important and we must maintain it. Both the police and the prosecutor's office have many professionals who do their job well. It is inconceivable to sit there and offer advice on how to topple an incumbent prime minister. This is not a "government coup".

The police and the prosecutor's office are very important and very powerful bodies, so they must be respected - but also criticized. I am afraid that during the prime minister's investigations, police investigators and probably the attorneys who accompanied the investigations were over eagerly disproportionate.

Minister Ohana denies: "I did not reveal anything to the Knesset" // Photo: Knesset channel

If we actually start from the end - the fact that the indictment is now attached with a list of 333 prosecution witnesses indicates excessive investment of resources. Such enormous resources could be invested in more effective enforcement of the law against offenses that offend civilians, and especially violent offenses.

If the system has surplus funds, it is advisable to transfer them to the education budget. Recruiting 333 witnesses must have cost millions. Their hearing in court will cost many millions more and will take years. Along the way, the police allowed massive and aggressive investigations that, according to the publications, included sleep deprivation, preventative care, degradation of interrogators, pressure to interrogate inconvenient defense attorneys, excessive forfeiture of suspects' property - even without judicial decree, and even an investigation by a woman who did not Related to investigation - just to threaten the interrogator.

To the best of my professional understanding, the investigators have come to the criminal offense of "extorting threats." In addition, there were also numerous leaks to the media which also reinforced the impression of eagerness. Finally, the indictment is signed not only by the Supreme Court but also by five senior executives, and the humiliating phrase "Defendant Netanyahu" appears no less than 531 times.

Supporters of the suspects' rights suddenly disappeared

How can such behavior be explained? The platform on which it rests is a subculture that I have been warning about for years, of inadequate respect for the rights of suspects, interrogators and defendants. There is insufficient understanding of their importance to all of us (and not just "them" - to "bad guys") in order to uphold human rights. There is no adequate criticism of police investigations and no adequate criticism of the prosecutor's office.

Attempting to improve the situation made by retired judge Hila Gerstel was targeted. Leakage 433 investigators also have the ethos of an elite patrol. They compare themselves to the GSS (the documented comparison) and allow themselves aggressive methods of investigation and threats to interrogators using such methods.

Instead of disproportionately allocating the investigation resources to the gravity of the offenses and their dangers, the police and prosecutor's office appear to regard the Prime Minister's investigation as a flag ship by which law enforcement can be fearlessly demonstrated.

Unfortunately, even people who usually tend to go against trampling on suspected and accused rights, this time chose to ignore it given the political connection. But human rights must be blindly protected for political color.