Even before the State Commission of Inquiry convenes to examine the submarine affair for its first meeting, it can already be determined that its birth in sin and its destiny miss the mark.
Her birth in sin, because the motives of those responsible for the government's agenda, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his colleague Yair Lapid, are not clean.
More than half a year has passed since the government was formed.
The initiator of the commission of inquiry, Defense Minister Bnei Gantz, has approached the two countless times demanding its establishment, but has been denied.
Only last week, when the possibility of a plea deal between former Prime Minister Netanyahu and the prosecution suddenly emerged, did Lapid and Bennett recall the submarine affair.
They pulled out of the lobby the Gantz proposal (which at the moment, by the way, no longer really wants it, but that's a different matter).
They tried in a panic to approve its establishment as early as last week, in violation of the bylaws.
When it became clear that this was not possible, the decision was postponed to the next Sunday's cabinet meeting.
Bennett and Torch.
Unclean motives, Photo: Mark Israel Salem
Why did Lapid and Bennett jump?
Their goal from now on is a propaganda campaign that will make it difficult for Netanyahu - if he signs the plea deal, if his health and age will allow him and if he wants to - return to political life in three, five or seven years.
They assume that the committee will tarnish Netanyahu.
They will use her tenure to challenge him.
This is the plan.
So sophisticated and cynical is the political machine built by the two political partners.
But not only the motives for the establishment of the committee are crooked, but also the mandate that will be given to it.
Section 2B of the Government Decision states that "the Commission shall not investigate the conduct of defendants in criminal proceedings, nor shall it make findings, conclusions or recommendations in their case."
Benjamin Netanyahu, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
And here the son asks: How will the committee do its job faithfully, if those who have the most knowledge about the submarine affair - the witness and key figure Mickey Ganor, former deputy head of the National Security Council Avriel Bar Yosef and former head of the Prime Minister's Office David Sharan - do not appear before it? This, by the way, is the reason why Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has opposed the establishment of a commission of inquiry over the years, and he wanted to exhaust the legal proceedings earlier.
So the main point will be missing from the book.
And it will be doubly lacking, because indeed there is something to investigate, but not only in the vessel affair.
The very gray area of the former members of the defense establishment - the IDF, the Shin Bet and the Mossad - which take advantage of the ties they have built in their state positions, to promote business interests immediately after retirement - is not transparent and unsupervised since the establishment of the state.
In these business interests a state commission of inquiry must indeed make order.
Had politics not spoiled the current committee - it would have been a worthy mandate reporter.
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