The police espionage affair: the straw that broke the ministers' backs and led to the opposition's own goal

In a miscalculation, the opposition believed that the coalition would protect the system in the police espionage affair at all costs, allowing it to continue to stick its teeth into flesh and attack them in public.

Contrary to popular belief, the government that will silence the government will also investigate the involvement of previous ministers in the affair - and then the shame will pass.

Itzik Alrov

07/02/2022

Monday, 07 February 2022, 21:27 Updated: 22:18

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In the video: Bennett Lapid and Lieberman refer to the NSO affair (Photo: GPO and Knesset Channel)

We are all familiar with these games, when a confused player kicks directly into the goal of his team.

This is what happened to the opposition in the NSO affair.

Follow me: From the moment the affair was revealed, the Minister of Internal Security, Amar Bar-Lev, for some reason decided to give complete backing to the system.

The opposition absorbed the message and internalized that this government prefers to maintain statehood, defend the system and decided to go on the offensive as only it knows how to do.

In the meantime, Tomer Ganun and Calcalist continued to expose more and more ordinary citizens who hacked into their phones.

And again, everything is known to have happened during the previous government, there is no dispute about that.

The opposition assumed that this government, no matter what happened, would whitewash or maintain the system - which would allow them to continue to gnash their teeth at government ministers and attack them head on.

To connect the revelations with Netanyahu's investigations and more and more, as the good imagination of Netanyahu's people.

This morning they were just tired.

The prime ministers got up in the morning with one headline too many, and they just got tired of it.

All members of the government are broken in one moment from the fact that they have to defend a failure that did not happen at all in their shift and is not related to any of them.

And boom.

In absolute consensus - all members of the government have decided to break the tools and compete over who will better investigate the default, who will form a committee with more powers and with more teeth.

And so the snowball began to roll for him.

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The coalition defended, until it broke.

NSO (Photo: Flash 90, Jonathan Zindel)

Contrary to popular belief, the committee, once established, will not be content with investigating the consultants' phone incident.

It will require information on the intervention of previous ministers in Prime Minister's investigative files;

It will require information on the intervention of previous ministers in police work;

It will demand to know whether senior government officials have intervened and demanded that police monitor protesters in Balfour;

It will demand to know who exactly wanted to follow the directors of various government ministries.

And all this, because one step too many, just because they are tired. If you will, the press that broke the ministers' backs. Price.It's definitely protection - until it's broken.

When everything floats and is revealed - the embarrassment will not be theirs, it will be that of the former ministers, that of the previous government.

This is why Netanyahu refrained from joining the celebration and demanding the establishment of a commission of inquiry.

They just forcibly dragged him to a party he just did not want to be at.

How did Netanyahu say to Regev at the time?

Sometimes you help me too much.

And this is what is called "self-goal" in politics.

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