An unlikely struggle. The grounds of reasonableness that the government seeks to abolish are not a godforsaken clause in our statute book. It is also far from the whim of judges who think they are smarter than the elected representatives. The grounds of reasonableness allow the High Court of Justice to do justice to individuals or groups who have not received the attention of the government or who have been arbitrarily rejected by it. Eliminating the reasonable cause will affect all of our lives, and within a short time we will fully understand what has been caused to us, but it may be too late.
In 1997, after the helicopter disaster, the IDF decided that each of the 73 gravestones of the fallen would read "Killed in the helicopter accident in the rest of the town." The bereaved parents rose up and asked that the caption be changed to reflect the fact that these were soldiers who were on their way to the long war in Lebanon. The defense minister refused, but in 2001 the High Court ruled that his decision was beyond the realm of reasonableness, and approved the replacement of the caption with the words: "Killed in the helicopter disaster on the way to operational activity in Lebanon."
Wagner forces pass roadblocks on the way to Moscow // Photo: Social Networks
Eliminating the reasonableness grounds would have left the problematic caption intact, just as it would have left in place the Kfar Vradim local council's decision to prevent the establishment of a mikveh, a decision that the High Court of Justice defined in 2014 as a refusal that is "unreasonable, because it harms local residents who observe immersion." To the attention of the agitators.
Chicken. Could all this have been Bibi's "chicken" game? Could it be that after the last Knesset elections he came to the conclusion that the only way to bring Gantz, and perhaps Lapid as well, into a national unity government was to threaten them with Ben-Gvir? Could it be that he didn't really want this man in the police ministry, and only wanted to prove to the centrist parties that he could turn a criminal into a "minister of national security" who would be responsible for the police, if they didn't join him? Could it be that he lost this game of chicken because he believed that his opponents from the center would ostensibly prove responsibility and rush to join him? Could it have been, again, a misreading of reality on his part?
Ben-Gvir cannot continue in a state position. Netanyahu knows this at least as well as the other clients of the media. Therefore, on February 15, 2021, he made a point of announcing in an interview with Channel 12 that Ben-Gvir would not serve in his government nor would he be chairman of a Knesset committee. The responsibility for the terrible damage that this man is causing to the state does not lie with those who are not responsible for his actions, but with those who decided to appoint him. He can't keep it.
Apropos. On Saturday, June 24, the countdown began toward the end of Putin's adventure in Ukraine, in what he has insisted on calling an "operation" for a year and a half. The Russian president, with whom the passing years really do him no favors, hates regulation, bureaucracy and gatekeepers. It seemed very logical to him to take a clear trustee, with a rich criminal record, and without any security experience, and to authorize him to establish a guard comprised in large part of dubious combatants and prisoners whom joining him frees them from prison. On this guard, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a friendly bully, Putin relied more than on the Russian army.
Commander of the Wagner Force. Putin thought organizing mercenaries was a good idea, Photo: AP
But a mercenary army is a mercenary army, and if the payment of its salaries is delayed, it turns its weapons in the opposite direction. Putin has had trouble convincing Russia's youth that it would be justified to risk their lives for the delusional occupation of parts of Ukraine. The "Wagner Force" had no need to convince.
From this it follows that whoever goes to bed with Prigozhin gets up in the morning and finds a bully beside him who has no control, just as someone who goes to sleep with Ben-Gvir gets up in the morning and finds a wild hill boy by his side.
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