The echoes continue following the exposure of "Israel Today" about the attempts to cover up the Umm al-Hiran affair • A source involved in the incident: "It is impossible to restore trust in the systems" • The GSS: "Do not comment"
Since the publications in "Israel Today" about the GSS 'position that the Umm al-Hiran events were not a terrorist attack and the attempts to whitewash and silence this position, many of those involved in the affair feel relieved.
Netanyahu at the beginning of the Likud faction meeting: "There is no escape from an independent investigation" // From Benjamin Netanyahu's Facebook page
Many members of the Shin Bet and outside it have been wandering in the three and a half years since then with a sense of distress. They knew in real time that this was not an attack, they said these things in real time to Commissioner Alshikh and anyone who agreed, Kaiyan was a terrorist.
Since then things have kept sleep out of their eyes.
And worse: three and a half years after the incident, the police have not yet officially returned, the former commissioner Alsheikh did not apologize, and even the GSS - whose competent officials determined there was no attack - did not issue an explicit and orderly statement.
"The publications this week have provided many of us with great relief," a source close to us said. "People at the field, who have been there, who have heard, researched, carry a very heavy load all this time. They see the opacity of the system and die of shame. In a difficult way, in a way that cannot be rehabilitated. "
Fury in the GSS
"Netanyahu is doing his politics, and it's cynical and disgusting, okay. But what's the problem with Alshikh standing up and admitting a mistake? Let him apologize!"
"Other elements involved in the incident also accepted the GSS 'position that night. They determined that it was an accident, that Abu al-Qiaan was not recognized as a terrorist. Al-Shikh knew everything, and yet he said the opposite."
The publication in "Israel Today", according to which GSS chief Argaman banned a senior official who investigated the incident from testifying before DIP, led to a harsh and harsh reaction from GSS spokeswomen to the newspaper and the writer of these lines. The publication was called "false" As "completely rejecting the false claim" in the article.
This post drives the people we talked to crazy.
"Beyond the fact that their response is incorrect, they see that when the GSS unequivocally wants to deny publicity, it knows how to do it well," they say, "so how do they allow the lies about Umm al-Hiran to go around like this for three and a half years?
What's the point of issuing a decisive message and dismissing Alshikh's lies? "
The wording is also outrageous.
"They keep saying 'no indication', 'no information', what is it supposed to be? This is not a statement. Why didn't they just say 'we are not a terrorist'? The killer has a son and a doctor in Soroka. When the GSS determines that someone is a terrorist, he is sharp - Meaning, why is it still a slippery tongue here?
Nothing will change the fact that Commissioner Alsheikh lied to the public and the GSS gave him back.
"A few sleepless nights we suffered because of them. At least there will be men and they will apologize in public. Alsheikh calls his book 'Values in the Test'. In this Values Test a resounding failure is written in his name."
We asked the GSS spokeswoman if, following the latest publications, they intended to officially and publicly announce that the incident was not a terrorist attack and that Yaakov Abu al-Qiaan was not a terrorist. Their response: "We do not comment."
No response was received from the police and Maroni Alshikh.