The classified forum that seeks to solve the crisis surrounding the legal reform: About 120 reservists from highly classified units have established a special forum in which they hold talks between opponents and supporters of the legal reform, in order to stop the polarization and reach agreements. These include fighters from Shayetet 13, Shaldag, Sayeret Matkal, fighter pilots and fighters in classified units that are forbidden to be published.
The group convened amid the threat of some members not attending training if the legal reform passes. One of its initiators, Baruch Hirsch, a reserve Shayetet 13 fighter, explains that the goal is not necessarily to agree but to create a dialogue. "Every crisis creates new opportunities, and the opportunity that comes during this period is to give rise to a different kind of discourse and leadership, leadership and a discourse of complexity of both and not one or the other. More of a Shammai and Hillel controversy and less of a dispute that leads to destruction. We want to see leadership that believes that diversity and diversity is our strength is the right leadership."
Unlike other groups that oppose the regime revolution or support legal reform, here we are talking about a group of fighters that was established by definition in order to combine the two. Amir Menachem, also a former officer in Shayetet 13 and an opponent of the reform, explained that he established the project with Hirsch in order to reach agreements.
Special Forces Fighters Set Up A Classified Forum to Solve the Legal Reform, Photo: None
"Baruch is a classmate of mine, a team member. We both come from different backgrounds – I am secular, I am religious, we are both in different positions on reform and other issues, but we both understand that if there is a side that wins, we will all lose. The idea of the project came from a place of response to the real crisis experienced by Israeli society."
B., a fighter pilot in the Air Force in the reserves who participated in the first meetings, says that his acquaintance with the forum began when another pilot in the squadron called him: "He told me that a meeting of fighters from a variety of units is being organized, we are trying to bring in both supporters and opponents of the reform, it was clear to me that I was coming. It's not new to me to meet friends who think differently than I do; many aircrew members were vehemently opposed to reform. The thing that warmed our hearts at the meeting was the understanding that it was clear to all of us that we had to continue together," he notes. "The basic understanding that has emerged is that we also need each other, with our opposing views, because only in this way can we be precise, adapt and perfect our approach to what is good for the country."
The forum plans to hold more and more meetings in order to try to reach an orderly dialogue between the sides instead of the widening polarization. "We know that there are disagreements and it's okay to have disagreements, but it is very important that we sit together and talk, if we don't do that, we will lose the country," they say.
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