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Opinion | The "Just Not Bibi" movement is having a hard time delivering the goods Israel today

2021-11-15T20:57:20.810Z


The judiciary has created activism of selective law enforcement against the right in particular, a destructive perception that has seeped into the State Attorney's Office.


"There is not enough evidence for a criminal offense, and I think it is very dangerous to prosecute people on the basis of negotiations with journalists. That is what politicians do ... to start interfering in the relationship between the media and the government - it poses a huge danger to freedom of expression and democracy."

This warning was sent by Prof. Alan Dershowitz to those involved in compiling the indictment against Benjamin Netanyahu, in December 2018. So far, the conduct of the trial in Jerusalem proves that Dershowitz's warning was in place.

Those well-publicized witnesses, who told the public a lot about their lethality, were found in their interrogations to be such as not providing the basis for proving the charges.

According to public relations done by several commentators, one of them is very anti-bibi, and they are already taking care to lower expectations.

Nir Hefetz, who will be filmed and directed during lengthy investigations, will also have difficulty delivering the goods.

What is tactically hidden behind the announcement of Hadas Klein's new testimony, and how does it affect Hefetz's testimony?

It is difficult to assess.

Her sudden appearance in the headlines reinforces the hypothesis that the testimony of an object is loose.

Because this whole legal event is the great poison compressor of Israeli society, it can be assumed that the prosecution and the attorney general have found them a gimmick that generates dramatization - in light of the fact that the trial has become unnecessary background noise in the eyes of the public.

File 4000: The Testimony of Salvation Continues, September // Photo: Yoni Rickner

In any case, the entire Netanyahu trial should be seen in the context defined by journalist Gideon Levy: it is not a legal event, but a socio-political event, born out of the "bibiphobia" disease.

Prosecutor and Attorney General Mandelblit relied on all legal gaps in the court to be filled by the hate and media activism factory. Just as the propaganda campaign and public pressure filled the gaps in the investigation files, leading the Attorney General and State Attorney to file the unbaked indictment against Netanyahu. Prime Minister.

In his well-known book, "Law and Culture in Israel at the Beginning of the 21st Century," Prof. Menachem Mautner substantiated the argument that judicial activism is nothing but a game of power, run by those who have lost the lead in the electoral arena.

Judicial activism has created the activism of selective law enforcement against the right, mostly, but specifically against Likud leader Netanyahu.

Only about a week ago, we received support for this process from the words of retired President Beinisch, herself a descendant of a deep Mapainiki root, at the Haaretz conference. -Democratic (of Prime Minister Netanyahu, EL) "? It is clear from this what is the political-ideological position of President Beinisch and all her predecessors and successors in the high office. This destructive perception trickled down to the State Attorney's Office as a sacred mission of life: to overthrow Netanyahu. So much so that those involved at the time on behalf of the State Attorney's Office in Lieberman's cases were willing to lie on the fence for him, to be the Minister of Finance, provided that Netanyahu did not become Prime Minister.

Netanyahu is a hero with human weaknesses, who occasionally stumble upon him according to the rules of ancient Greek drama.

And Gideon Levy was wrong: Lapid, Bennett, the left and the media do not really hate him, because it requires emotional resources that they do not have.

What we see is the trait that exists in the old militant, Histadrut, Flemish, Israeli culture of sadism. The creation of a monster in the basement.

Source: israelhayom

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