In recent weeks, a news item has been published on the news: The family of the girl who was sexually assaulted by Bedouin burglars who broke into her home in the middle of the night, has agreed to sign a plea agreement.
Under the settlement, the burglar boy will plead guilty to attempting to commit an act of sodomy and will not be tried on the other serious charges against him.
The terminology in which the father chose to explain their actions hurt the most: we were forced to sign the plea agreement, he said.
This is really not morally acceptable to us, but left us no other choice.
If it is said that this thing should have shaken the foreheads of the thresholds, we are sinning against a cliché that erases our ability to experience the mental shaking required from this knowledge.
A father, whose daughter experienced a terrible incident in her safe year in her bed, was forced to align with the prosecution after it was made clear to him that otherwise they did not have much chance in court.
This father is not alone.
In the last two years, the police have acted admirably in the face of serious criminality of harassment, violence, riots in 1957, burglary at the Nabataean base, ATM robbers and more, and managed to get their hands on the rioters with an unequivocal recommendation to prosecute them. And justice, and therein lies the sick evil of the State of Israel: in some cases the prosecution refrains from filing an indictment, in other cases it files an indictment with a very low sentence, and in cases where the prosecution finally insists on a high sentence depending on the circumstances, the court In the State of Israel and releases the culprits in a ridiculous sentence if at all.
In recent times, the claim has rightly been made that the State of Israel must protect its citizens, both Arabs and Jews, from the rising violence in Arab society, which often harms Arab society itself, or is turned out with too little pressure on the nationalist trigger.
It follows that the general society in the State of Israel is not protected from its own citizens.
After all, what does a standard state of law hold?
Of course good citizens keep the law by virtue of being good people who are far from violence and crime.
But in cases where the citizens actually choose one crime or another, the role of the state is to create a strong enough deterrent to maintain the existing order.
The role of the police is central but not decisive in the campaign.
After all, it is not possible to place a police officer on every street corner in order to maintain order in the field of vision next to it, but the criminals must know that if they are caught in the act, their punishment will be more severe than they can bear.
A simple overview of the past year only, presents a picture of a receding force retreating towards the all-absorbing walls of the courts in Israel. Thus, for example, the criminals who violently attacked Rabbi Mali in Acre, were quickly arrested by the police who claimed that the attack was motivated by racism, which requires more severe punishment. "Racist?", The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court wondered only at the beginning of this month, "Where do we get the motive for being racist?" - and released the Arab rioters to service jobs of only a few months.
Last July, Bashir Abu Rashed, who was accused of involvement in a lynching attempt on a Jewish family during the riots in May 2021. He was released under house arrest in May 2021.
Similarly, Khaled Suleiman, who was accused of riots at the Effendi Hotel in Acre, where Avi Har-Even's father was killed and later wounded, was also released.
The reality that was here in May has subsided, the court argued, so there is an element here that requires consideration of an alternative.
The alternative is to release a convicted felon back to his home.
Suleiman's return was celebrated in his hometown, where he was called a Palestinian hero who was arrested by the Israeli occupation.
In the months leading up to the riots, too, most of those involved in the violent violence of those days were released, and despite the hard work of the police to bring everyone to justice, the May 2012 rioters returned to their homes with an embracing statement from the courts: It's okay.
You will riot, you will murder, you will terrorize the streets.
We will always be here for you.
The same thing happened to Ibrahim Bader, a resident of East Jerusalem, who was arrested on suspicion of distributing videos on his ticketing account that focused on the bodies of policewomen stationed in the city. The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court judge claimed that the photos were flattering to the police and released Bader back to his home to continue with whatever he wanted. The district court in that city treated similarly forgivingly one of the lynchings of Bali Rosen during Operation Wall Guard. The lynching, from which Rosen came out only miraculously, was carried out with unimaginable cruelty by terrorists living in East Jerusalem, but when one of them was brought to trial, the judge claimed that although the person's positions in front of her were problematic, she still thought he was not dangerous. Besides, she added, we are on the verge of a holiday. And why bother those who tried to murder a Jew in Jerusalem to celebrate the holiday? One terrorist who was documented slapping the ultra-Orthodox on the light rail and even posted with a lot of praise and laughter on social media, was released to his home simply because he was ill in Corona and was not brought to court.
By the way, social media: A person who uploaded a video of a tic-tac-toe in which he sexually assaulted a girl in Be'er Sheva, was arrested by the police, received an extension of detention by a magistrate's court and was soon released under house arrest by the Southern District Court. Conversely, when it came to a burglar at the Nabataean base, it was the Be'er Sheva Magistrate's Court that ordered the suspect's release on the grounds that the burglary appeared to have occurred by mistake, and a police appeal led the district court judge to extend his detention. That makes sense.
The forgiveness of the courts costs the State of Israel many billions, it was claimed earlier this month on the Walla! By a police official. He said the police are doing everything to bring the perpetrators to justice, but the courts for their part are ridiculously lenient in their punishment. Take, for example, the huge operations carried out to capture illegal weapons in Bedouin and Arab society in the State of Israel. These are operations whose importance is clear and known to all, and are even firmly demanded by Arab Knesset members, operations that can prevent daily killing on the streets as has been done so far; Operations that cost the State of Israel many millions as they involve strenuous intelligence work, the use of many technological means and of course the deployment of many forces to reinforce every village they enter due to the tangible fear for the lives of the police; Operations that the public can not imagine the cost and complexity of and that often end in disappointment because the removal of weapons has also taken a step up.
Until such a weapons offender is brought to court with a recommendation for indictment many resources and forces are invested. And here comes the frustration of the police: in 70% of cases, the perpetrators are sentenced to less than a year in prison. In many other cases, the offenders are sent to service jobs, house arrests or individual weeks in jail. After all the investment and a lot of money invested in it, the lawbreakers return to the street to repackage weapons whose activities will be heard next time when Man Dhao is murdered on a street in Acre, Jaffa or the Negev.
The outgoing verb is that even when the police work is proper and done impressively and well, the State of Israel has no ability to reach real deterrence in the face of serious crime without enforcement that includes all elements of the law - from the policeman who does not ignore what happens on the street to the judge.
When the message conveyed to the attackers is that the prosecution and the court are by their side and the sentences are light to non-existent, we are all sentenced to continue crime to an extent that will only increase.
In too many cases, the court actually stands by the terrorists and seeks where to pity the cruel, we have all ended up paying the price for it.
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