The disclosure of the testimony of senior police officer Moshe Saada by Amit Segal is extremely important. Contrary to all the surrounding claims, that this testimony has no bearing on the Alfis cases and the political events, the truth is exactly the opposite: to claim that the prosecutor's office and the police broke the law and behaved improperly Of course, we need more "former" testimony, even if it is supported and strengthened by other senior officials (former MHS senior officers Carmel and Shapiro).
On the other hand, it is very easy to remove from this testimony (which, by the way, I tend to believe all of it without hesitation and idleness), the main issue for which we have gathered in recent years, and that is the excess of motivation that these bodies had on the way to the investigation and conviction of the previous prime minister, a matter that is also fundamentally to the cases themselves and also to their political consequences.
Everything starts with the Israel Defense Forces - what did we want to prove? Did we want to prove through Saada's testimony, that the Alif files and the indictments are not true and that the prosecutor's office and the police sewed up files for Netanyahu for political reasons? No, no. Anyone who claims this is either a foolish Hasidic or someone who does not really understand how the system works working
To understand that the files of the thousands are not really in them, you don't need Moshe Saada's testimony, you just have to read them.
Most of the accusations that are revealed in court today are innovative and precedential, and are based on trifles that can easily be interpreted as not meeting the criminal threshold, what's more, if there is indeed such an allegation, it should be revealed in court and not in television interviews.
What we wanted to prove is something that is, to a certain extent, much more serious: the excess of motivation of the prosecutor's office and the police regarding the Netanyahu cases.
The eagerness, the enthusiasm, the need to postpone other things in favor of obsessively dealing with these cases.
That's just the story.
This over-motivation is a well-known and long-standing disease of law enforcement.
In Israel, when it connects to these political trends that characterize the legal system - it becomes even more problematic.
Then, when he meets the massive political interests operating outside and the media artillery (whether it is politically biased or not should be discussed on another occasion) - a political explosion is created.
The righteous right-wing claim against the prosecutor's office and the police should be well defined.
This is not an allegation of persecutory activity arising out of political bias.
The argument is this: the laxity of the law enforcement system, its motivation to convict and especially the motivation of its leaders to grab headlines and find favor - have become a tool in the hands of political interests.
And the truth?
It might be better to discover that the system operates because of political interest, and not in the service of political interest.
And again - thanks to Moshe Saada.
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