About an hour before the barbershop event, which we will get to shortly, the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, released a videotaped statement to the press.
He proved once again that there is not even a milligram of statesmanship, integrity or intellectual truth left in him.
The ear immediately hunts the lies he scatters in bunches, even though he knows there will be someone who will point them out.
He is not excited, who knows, maybe he will manage to catch a few more flakes in his net.
"There was no violence against police officers during the secession," he says, when the facts are of course the opposite.
Both in the demonstrations that preceded the disengagement and in the disengagement itself, there was violence against police officers, including violence that resulted in significant injuries to police officers.
This morning the police released a photo of a police officer with a broken hand, and announced that 11 police officers were injured during the protests.
There is a big difference between police officers who are slightly injured during the evacuation of demonstrators as a result of friction and falls, and police officers who throw dangerous stones and strange and dangerous substances at them.
There is no documentation from yesterday's demonstrations of such an event, and almost everything is filmed.
If there was such a thing, he deserves all condemnation, when we see such an event in our eyes, we will also condemn him.
The police spokesmen, who said that the officers felt in danger, explained that they meant that the pressure on the checkpoints on the way down to Ayalon could have harmed them physically.
With all due respect to the Israeli police (and I really have plenty, without a hint of cynicism), this is not a description of violence against police officers.
Then Netanyahu told us this legend again that he was the one who led the opposition "against secession", even though everyone already knows that he supported secession in votes in the Knesset, and remembered to leave the government a few days before secession began, when nothing could be done to prevent it.
joke.
But these ordinary pathetic lies, which have already become a cult, were not the most shameful of his words last night.
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Zero statehood.
Netanyahu (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)
What is most shameful about the Prime Minister's words is the despicable symmetry he created last night between the rioters in Hvara and the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators protesting against Israel's changing face, against its becoming an illiberal country with a fake "democracy" like Poland, Hungary and Turkey.
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, protesting, crying, ultra-Orthodox for their country, the vast majority of them from the salt of the earth: religious, secular, leftists, rightists;
All of them yesterday heard their prime minister compare them to house and car burners, and also to murderers in Hawara.
The man who allowed two Shin Bet dukes to run the country - Ben Gabir, to operate private militias, and Smotrich, to grant extensive powers in the Ministry of Defense, issued a weak condemnation on the day that the racist militias ran amok in Hawara and harmed lives and property. Members of Ben Gabir's party even encouraged the pogrom, And Smotrich outdid himself yesterday when he explained in a scholarly manner that he rejects the erasure of a village by citizens, but does think that the state is the one that should erase the village. An enlightened man. So he, Netanyahu, is talking about anarchy. Who are those anarchists exactly? The elderly who take to the street with Their walkers? The children from the schools? The tens of thousands of young people lovingly hugging the Israeli flags? Who? Maybe the heads of the Shin Bet protesting?
The chiefs of staff? The civil servants past and present? The economists? The high-tech people? Are they the anarchists?
The talk of anarchy came, of course, after a day full of protests, which also led to extensive roadblocks.
Yes, the demonstrators who notice that Netanyahu, Levin and Rothman are not only ignored but also despise them, turned up the volume and even came to confrontations with the police.
The police took off their gloves and used excessive violence.
They are not to blame for this story.
Despite the announcements by the police yesterday that the decisions on the stiffening of the hands were made independently, it is impossible to ignore the connection between the frequent announcements that Ben Gvir issued to the press about the instructions he gave to the police, and the results on the ground.
The Prime Minister compared hundreds of thousands of protesters to rioters in Hawara (photo: photo processing, Flash 90 Eric Marmor)
The evening ended in the barbershop events with a host of exaggerated and misleading headlines.
No, Sara Netanyahu is not the first figure to demonstrate against, but to say that she is not related to the public's feelings is also a distortion of reality.
All of Netanyahu's personal affairs get mixed up every day with national affairs and legislation in the Knesset.
In one room of the Knesset they are talking about crushing the Supreme Court and turning the election of judges into a political one, in the second room they are discussing the question of how to return Aryeh Deri, a serial convict of crimes, to the government, in the third room they are promoting legislation that will allow donations to the Prime Minister, and in the fourth room they are taking care of his private expenses in his many prisons, and all this before that we talked about the connection of all these to the prime minister's criminal trial.
Yes, the Netanyahu couple is a couple with a healthy appetite for public money.
Yes, Sarah Netanyahu has a central part in this matter.
This fact has already been proven in numerous investigations and judgments.
Is it possible to separate the many elements in this story?
I don't think so.
Contrary to the impression created by the headlines that "She got off in peace", from the reports I watched in the various media, I did not see any physical threats against Ms. Netanyahu, nor did I see that the protesters tried to break into the hair salon.
I watched people shouting and protesting near the barbershop.
It was puzzling to me that the cops didn't "rescue" the lady much sooner and put an end to this incident.
What's the big deal here?
According to the reports of Hadas Greenberg from the corporation, the reason for the delay was Mrs. Netanyahu's desire to complete the treatment of her hair.
What is the operational "big deal" here?
A demonstration outside the hair salon where Sara Netanyahu was staying, last night (photo: official website, Or Hadar)
Even if we assume that there was an oversight in this report (currently the report is not hidden), there was no operational justification for this delay.
In all this unnecessary time, policemen of disturbing proportions were brought to the State Square, who I wish were in real time in Hawara.
At this time more and more protesters arrived, friction increased, and the police lost it when they used brutal violence against protesters without any justification.
Netanyahu's agents of lies, led by the Channel 14 barbarians, told their viewers about the "lynching attempt" on Sarah Netanyahu.
Shameless liars.
During this day, of course, the legislation of destruction continued without a blink under the leadership of its perfect executioner, MK Simcha Rothman. Rothman continues his magnificent show of holding the eyes. He moves from call to call, and to show the world that his procedure is in order, he takes down fierce calls from the cart, and raises new goats on the spot. For example, before the first reading, he wrote in the bill that only 80% of the full 15-judge panel would be required to repeal a law, unlike the unanimity he demanded in the pre-reading. This is eye catching, of course, since this is how the initial legal memorandum of Justice Minister Yariv Levin.
On the other hand, for the first reading, Rothman put a new goat on the wagon, which was not in the prefab - a preliminary mechanism of the High Court with a composition of three judges, which will determine if the High Court in its full composition will be able to discuss the petition to invalidate the law in question.
All this negotiation is conducted by Rothman with himself in a troll show that the Israeli Knesset has never known. Rothman's film show includes gagging, wholesale removal of opposition members from the committee room, and hurling ugly insults at the legal advisers, whether at those who appear in the committee, or at the legal adviser of the committee, attorney Gor Blay.
Agents of lies.
The report on channel 14, last night (photo: screenshot, screenshot)
Almost symbolically, this intense day ended with the response that Netanyahu submitted to the High Court regarding his removal to Nebtseret. In his response, he lamented the settlement of the conflict of interest ordered by the legal adviser to the government, the one that prevents him from dealing with the details of Levin and Rothman's destruction plan. that the restriction of his freedom of expression implies, actually harms the freedom of expression of millions of citizens who voted for him in democratic elections."
Apparently, this argument sounds reasonable, but as usual it distorts reality.
The situation we are in is really sick, but not due to the consultant's decision.
For years it was clear in Israeli discourse that, even though the law does not require it, a prime minister who is indicted will resign from his position.
The logical assumption was that a prime minister would not be able to continue running the country under indictment, for two reasons: one, he is busy with his personal affairs and less with the affairs of the state.
Second, a conflict of interest may arise between his interests and the interests of the state.
So even though the express law does not forbid him from this office, the assumption was that it simply would not happen.
Leaving aside the resignation at the time of Ehud Olmert, also Knesset members from Netanyahu's government during his investigations, who expressed complete confidence in his innocence, expressed publicly and not publicly, that the day an indictment is filed against Netanyahu, he will be forced to resign.
The Minister of Finance at the time, Moshe Kahlon, said this explicitly.
Netanyahu decided not to comply with this norm, and even defeated in the High Court, in an impressive victory, those who thought otherwise. In the same High Court, it was determined that there should be a strict conflict of interest arrangement that would allow Netanyahu's term.
This is the background for the consultant's instruction.
So yes, a situation in which a prime minister cannot deal with the most important matter that the country is burning because of him is an absurd situation, but the conclusion that follows from this is not to allow him to do what he wants, to influence a system that is supposed to discuss and decide his matter, but on the contrary - the conclusion should be that a prime minister cannot continue his term under indictment.
point.
Netanyahu needs to free the country from its shackles.
But Netanyahu not only does not free the country from its shackles, he does not even try to take the role of the responsible adult.
On the contrary, he adds fuel to the flames, scorning the women and men of this country who are not ready to give up their democracy, the democracy they have been proud of all their lives, the democracy they have no intention of giving up.
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