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Former GSS official: "If Netanyahu does not issue a statement of condemnation, he has not learned a lesson from Rabin's assassination"
Dvir Karib, a former member of the GSS Jewish Department, expressed satisfaction in an interview with 103FM of Argaman's unusual warning, but criticized the politicians 'response to it, as well as the rabbis' letter. To do everything - how will a murderer think? "
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Sunday, 06 June 2021, 08:09 Updated: 08:53
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Former GSS senior official Dvir Karib was interviewed this morning (Sunday) against the background of Service Minister Nadav Argaman's unusual warning of incitement that could lead to personal injury, and said that if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not issue a statement condemning the incitement following it, he "did not learn the lesson from 1995 "Karib previously served in the GSS 'Jewish Department.
In a conversation with Golan Yokfaz and Anat Davidov in 103, Karib expressed satisfaction with the Crimson announcement, but criticized the politicians' reaction to it. "It is aimed at public figures, first and foremost at the prime minister. Only Israel Katz read things correctly among politicians and understood that he has public responsibility as a public figure," Karib said. He said, "When the head of the GSS takes such an assessment of such a situation to the media, it happened in August 1995 and now. It does not happen every day, but after it is estimated that the situation is such that a message must be conveyed to public figures and to the public itself, who must calm the spirits quickly. "
In an unusual statement issued by the organization's head, Nadav Argaman, he said that elected officials, "from all corners of the political spectrum, opinion leaders, clerics, educators and all citizens of Israel" - have a responsibility to prevent violent discourse.
Crimson warned that the phenomenon could lead to actual harm to humans.
"The State of Israel regrets on its banner the principle of freedom of expression. This is an important and necessary principle in a democratic state," he said in his opening remarks.
"At the same time, in recent times we have identified an increase and severe extremism in the violent and inciting discourse, with an emphasis on that which takes place on social networks."
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Listen to the full interview on 103FM
Regarding Netanyahu, Karib said that he "assumes that the prime minister sees the assessments of the situation, the GSS intelligence and understands why the GSS decided to secure Bennett and Shaked. He understands what is happening on the ground, and I assume he will be asked to do things he did not do."
"If the prime minister did not issue a statement of condemnation, what does that mean?" The interviewers asked.
"It means that we as a company have not learned the lesson from 1995 and it has not learned the lesson from 1995," Karib replied. He claims, "In August 1995, Carmi Gilon distributes a warning to public figures. He asks Benjamin Netanyahu to lower the flames. He explains that the incitement could lead to political assassination. Putting his hands into a political game and politically interfering in what is being done in the country.
"" I think the prime minister should come to his senses and come to the public and calm the spirits - and in a minute and a half he can. If he does not do that,It will show that he has not learned anything since 1995, "he added.
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Karib also referred to a letter signed by senior rabbis in religious Zionism, who called for "doing everything" so that the Bennett-Lapid government would not be formed.
"It only sharpens the danger, because if public leaders say 'dangerous left-wing government' and rabbis say 'everything has to be done' - how will an ideological killer think? If I have to avoid the danger, I have to do something," Karib said.
He added that he "very much hopes that the prime minister's calendar has a meeting with the rabbis' heads to calm the spirits," and that in his opinion the GSS should call the rabbis who signed the call.
"The GSS 'actions are not visible. There may have been meetings with such and other rabbis to calm the spirits."
Following the rabbis' letter, claims were made that this reading was, among other things, the background to the GSS chief's last night warning. Among the rabbis who signed the letter were Chaim Druckman, Shlomo Aviner, David Chai HaCohen and Shmuel Eliyahu. "The reality is that a government will be formed in Israel that will harm the fundamental things in matters of religion and state, which have been accepted since the establishment of the State of Israel until today by all Israeli governments," the
rabbis said
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It also includes ministers calling on the International Court of Justice in The Hague to investigate IDF commanders on war crimes.
They added that this government "is completely contrary to the will of the people as expressed emphatically in the last election".
Later, following the criticism, Druckman, one of the senior rabbis in religious Zionism, responded, claiming that "incitement only exists in the imagination of those who say so."
"I want to reassure everyone, there is no incitement here. This is a real, painful call from rabbis who think that the government that is about to be formed will not be good for the people of Israel," he explained.
"Certainly in a democracy it is possible to express things in a letter, just as it is possible to demonstrate for months next to the prime minister on Balfour Street - even during the Corona period - and it is not called incitement."
He added that "it is inconceivable that this is violence, physical or verbal. But in a democratic way, everything possible can be done to prevent the formation of a government. This is the simple meaning of calling the rabbis. To do everything in a democratic way."
At the same time, he reiterated that it was "not too late" to change the formation of the government.
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