How do we know what is allowed, if those around us justify what is forbidden?
Free elections are an essential and central feature of the democratic system - the participation of the citizens of the state in the election of the government.
Any violation of the procedure
and / or intervention in it is a serious violation of the stability of a democratic government.
This week, in the cross-examination of the state witness in the 4000 case, Nir Hefetz claimed that there were lost and dangerous attempts by various elements in the police and the prosecutor's office to intervene in the 2019 election process (on two dates), using the illegal and illegal tool of trending leaks from the interrogation rooms.
State witness Nir Hefetz's cross-examination resumed this week // Photo: Yoni Rickner
Hefetz said in his interrogation that journalists are becoming active players who are trying to help all kinds of processes, which will cause "he" - the then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - to fall out of power.
This statement joins a host of statements and exposes the links between journalists and law enforcement agencies.
Hefetz described the headline about the negotiations for the state witness agreement between him and the authorities, which was quoted by Amnon Abramovich and Guy Peleg on News 12: "It's a lie, my lawyers did not leak either. It is necessarily from the law enforcement authorities. .
Spokesman Avichai Mandelblit, Photo: Coco
Prosecutor in the Netanyahu trial Liat Ben-Ari, Photo: Oren Ben-Hakon
Hefetz added: "This is a groundbreaking event for what I went through. The leak that broke me."
On another leak, Hefetz said that she "killed him" because he felt he was shot in the back so much that he was unable to leave the house.
The leak, published by Baruch Kara from News 13, was described by Hefetz as a "heinous act," and he stated that although journalists threatened him, he did not agree to transfer materials to them.
Hefetz also exposed us to journalists' connections with the senior echelons of the law enforcement system.
Thus, for example, he claimed about Mordechai Gilat, that his ties with Commissioner Alsich provided him with leaks, and that Gidi Weitz enjoyed his ties with the State Attorney's Office, which supplies him with the goods.
Guy Peleg, Photo: Moshe Shai
Baruch Kara,
Asked by Adv. Ben-Tzur, Netanyahu's attorney, Hefetz summed up the issue of the leaks during the election period and said: "The common assumption is that without all these issues, Benjamin Netanyahu would have been with us for many, many years to come.
That is the main thing that can separate him from the continuation of his rule. "
If Hefetz's statements are correct, then it appears that the State Attorney's Office and the police violate the instructions written in white Kiddush letters in Guideline 1.1910 to the instructions of the State Attorney dealing with the purity of the election process.
The state's commitment is to ensure that voters choose, at their discretion after examining the bedding presented to them by the candidates.
The use of the tool of leaks for communication in a trending way, using communication without the things being tested with the necessary professional tools, to convict or win - is certainly a heinous act - as Nir Hefetz defined it.
This borders on an invalid and illegal effect on voting in elections, disrupting and distorting the discretion of the citizen on the one hand, and on the other hand in favor of the media for publishing things as an exclusive product.
This article is not intended to advocate for opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu.
He addresses all citizens from all political dial-up areas, warning them that there are those who use them to advance his agenda, and illegally using the power given to him by the state to influence citizens.
The great absurdity is that these three factors combine forces and prevent comprehensive examination and investigation to get the lesion out of their midst.
The only losers are us - the citizens.
These moves are doubly dangerous, as they deny the citizen the free right to decide who to choose, without encountering background noises.
Once the background noises have created the choice and the citizen has become an empty vessel in the face of those moves, he will not be able to reclaim his right again.
It is therefore time to stand up against this lost and illegal conduct with a loud voice and with a lot of force.
Right, left, yes Bibi, no Bibi, Arabs and Jews - just citizens.
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