On video: Minister Ben Gvir: "The ombudsman is preventing the sealing of the terrorists' houses" (Photo: Merav Cohen)
"Neutralize the legal adviser to the government", is the first sentence heard in a viral video of the pogrom carried out by angry protesters against the Channel 13 staff yesterday in Jerusalem.
The video is burning the nets.
It is shocking not only because of the mob's violence and burning hatred for journalists (the excellent Alon Ben David and Udi Segal) who are doing their jobs ("Be men, attack the media," Netanyahu urged his followers not long ago).
It is shocking mainly because of this sentence: "to neutralize the legal adviser to the government".
All this happened shortly after another show of terror, by the Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, in an impromptu statement to the media that he gave at the end of Shabbat.
Benny Gantz in the opposition, Yair Lapid in the house, the "Muslim Brotherhood" were expelled, even Mansur Abbas is no longer with us.
We are on the watch of Ben Gvir and the other street brawlers.
so what are we doing?
Arab terrorism is a complex matter that has been going on for 150 years.
It rises, falls, disappears, returns, no one has found a suitable solution for it.
But Ben Gvir has to place the blame on someone.
He is stuck.
Well, he will assign it to the Legal Adviser to the Government, Gali Beharve-Miara.
It turns out that this attack, like many before it and those that will come after it, happened because of Gali Beharve-Miara.
She did not approve sealing the terrorist's house on the night of the attack.
She stuck sticks in the wheels of the security forces and abandoned Jews.
Her hands are stained with the blood of the murdered.
So instead of Ben Gvir speaking to the public in moderation, asking for time, telling the truth, detailing the steps he will recommend to the cabinet and what needs to be done now, he entered the government legal advisor at a speed of 200 km/h and took out all his legitimate frustration on her.
playing with fire
Ben Gabir at the scene of the attack in Jerusalem, Friday (Photo: Flash 90, Olivier Fitosi)
Dear Minister of National Security, you are playing with fire.
Once, many years ago, you played Yitzhak Rabin's Cadillac emblem.
You think it's funny.
You believed you were a hero.
Rabin was later assassinated.
No, you didn't kill him and you emphasized, in that famous video, that Rabin should not be harmed.
But that symbol of the Cadillac in the hands of a ten-year-old brat bragging about how close he came to Rabin has become one of the symbols of the abominable incitement against the prime minister.
Why repeat this mistake, Itamar?
Between us, you also don't believe that the legal advisor to the government is guilty of an attack or encourages attacks.
You are now sitting in the cabinet.
Please ask the head of the Shin Bet, the head of the MLA, the AMN people, the Lotr experts, if there is value in sealing a house that is carried out the day after the attack, or the day after (the house was sealed this morning).
Is this our problem in life?
Because the truth is, Itamar, that instead of engaging in creative ideas to combat terrorism, you engaged in incitement against a lawyer who fulfills her public mission to the best of her ability.
War on terror is a complex, sometimes Sisyphean matter.
A senior member of the Shin Bet once said that fighting terrorism in Judea and Samaria is "like trying to dry up the sea with a spoon". He was wrong. The IDF went to the defensive wall and defeated terrorism.
Times have changed since then.
There is no "infrastructure", no "organizations", no "hierarchy", no commanders and no engineers.
What there are are young people who did not know the days of that intifada and they are fed up.
Israel has tremendous capabilities in this field and leads the world in counter-terrorism technology.
Whoever promises with the rolling of his tongue to do hocus-pocus and pull a patent trick out of his sleeve to lead his people to salvation, should deal with these promises seriously, not through incitement.
It's dangerous, Itamar.
It's just dangerous.
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