Right-wing activists blocked the Kerem Shalom crossing/Tso 9 movement
On the eve of the formation of the government, when he realized how much power he had in front of the pressuring Prime Minister, Minister Itamar Ben Gvir demanded that the police order be changed so that he could exercise full control over it, that is, not only in policy formulation but also operational control.
In addition, he asked for promises to establish a national guard and turned the Ministry of Internal Security into the Ministry of National Security.
These ambitions for the time being have only been partially fulfilled.
In the meantime, a national guard has not yet been established and Ben Gvir has not received legal power to make operational decisions of the police.
But a man like Ben Gvir will not let the law stop him.
Only recently, the legal adviser to the government, Gali Beharev Miara, informed the High Court that Ben Gabir is improperly and illegally interfering with the work of the police. The words were written following Ben Gabir's order (we know about his order from his own tweets) to the police not to approve anti-war protest demonstrations. "The political interference in the freedom of protest against the government and the right to demonstrate is particularly serious," the consultant wrote.
Minister Itamar Ben Gabir/Flash 90, Chaim Goldberg
Commissioner Kobi Shabtai was inherited by Ben Gabir. He tried to turn him into a puppet on a string, sometimes with complete success, sometimes with partial success. Shabtai's great shame was recorded when he cooperated with Ben Gabir in removing the commander of the Tel Aviv district at the time, Superintendent Ami Ashad, due to " His "too soft hand" in handling the protest demonstrations against the regime revolution.
But the story, as seen mainly since the seventh of October, is not about whether or not Ben Gvir controls the top of the police force. Shabtai is willing to swear in closed conversations that he makes professional decisions and I believe the sincerity of his statements. He even stands Peretz Amr, although he is the one who was placed by Ben Gabir in the position of MAZ Tel Aviv instead of Ashad, he is not necessarily Ben Gabir's direct servant.
There are senior officers in the police who are operated more than him by the minister.
that's not the point.
The matter is much more serious.
Since the seventh of October, Ben Gabir practically bypasses Shabtai in his control of the organization, as well as Amr and the rest of the top police.
Under the auspices of the war, he manages to influence with his spirit and his messages directly the policemen in the field, their decisions, their behavior, their values.
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Commissioner Kobi Shabtai next to Ben Gabir/photo processing, Flash 90
The concept of dancing on the blood is basic and thorough in Ben Gvir's way.
He inherited it from his racist spiritual leader, Meir Kahana, who was quick to reach every scene of an attack and spread there the pearls of his racism, his calls for the expulsion of Arabs, and his calls to oppress the Arabs of Israel until they fly away from here.
In this respect, as horrible as it sounds, the October Seven events created a work platform for Ben Gavir.
The public is angry and therefore part of it naturally looks for who is the most extreme around - then Ben Gvir appears, with his baby face smile, and starts dancing.
Think about it, until the seventh of October, Ben Gabir's political situation (also in the polls) was at a low point, mainly due to his incompetence in dealing with crime in the Arab sector.
Ben Gvir as an executive turned out to be nothing and nothing.
The memory is very short.
Since October 7, while Netanyahu is crashing - he is getting stronger.
The police officers, not only go through the same process that every citizen goes through, they are also at the front, on the frontline, sometimes receiving harsh statements from the protesters and the media.
Those who are in such a situation are looking for a back and rightly so.
Ben Gvir recognized potential in police officers and is trying to systematically realize it.
He instills in them a consistent message: I am always behind you, no matter what you do, beat, curse, make arrests, deny rights.
As long as you did it against Arabs and leftists, I'm with you.
To the group of leftists, the group of families of the abductees was recently added.
The current message is that they are being used by the leftists and the Kaplinists, so force can be used against them as well (as if they don't suffer enough).
The younger the police officers, among them police officers on regular duty, the higher the chance that Ben Gabir's embrace will capture them. Ben Gabir's method works. Everyone who walks around demonstration areas feels it. Police officers are not afraid of the photos on their cell phones, they know that Weaker than ever, they use violence without fear.
Everything is allowed under the auspices of the war.
The police are evicting protesters from the Ayalon routes/official website, Danor Aharon
From the graffiti to the Castleman affair
A few weeks ago, an incident was filmed in East Jerusalem where police brutally and without any justification beat an Arab photographer.
The MGB commander decided to suspend the officers involved. The next day, Ben Gabir spoke with the officers and announced that he had their back and promised that they would return to operational activity. The actual result was that the officers were reinstated. , then he must be a Hamas supporter (as Ben Gabvir stated in his statement to the media), and if he is a Hamas supporter, then it is clear that it is permissible to bet on him.
Or take for example the case of the disturbed arrest of the hero of Israel, Rami Matan. It is difficult to decide where to start. Graffiti is sprayed on the library in Tel Aviv Calling the IDF a terrorist organization.
This is undoubtedly despicable, wretched and disgusting graffiti.
Someone passed false information to the police that none other than Matan is responsible for this address, 72-year-old Col. Bamil, the hero of the Chinese farm, was one of the brave warriors who stopped the Egyptian army in the Yom Kippur War.
The graffiti address sprayed on the wall of the Kirya base in Tel Aviv/documentation on social networks according to Section 27 A of the Copyright Law
Following this false information, police arrived at his house, turned it over, and arrested Matan.
His son Adam, a major in the reserves in Order 8, came especially from his military service to the police station in order to release him. In a video he shared, he explained that his father would cut off his hand before he would write such a text about the IDF.
As a side note, we note that there is no reason to make such an arrest, not even for the idiot who sprayed the address.
It is possible to simply call him for investigation for vandalism of real estate.
One way or another, the police admitted that this was an action taken as a result of incorrect information that reached them.
The policeman, the station commander, or whoever did not decide to make this false arrest, made it in the spirit of the time.
Didn't even check the veracity of the information.
In an era where members of the Knesset base their statements on the "Edna Carnival" website, the truth no longer has any value.
Contempt for the truth penetrated well into the police during the Ben Gvir period.
So what if Matan is an Israeli hero from the Chinese farm and Ben Gvir never served a day in his life in the IDF? Ben Gvir gives public support to the police? Ben Gvir stands behind them, as long as they act against Arabs and protestors? So we arrest Matan, at most we release the elderly Big deal.
The Castleman affair is also a depressing product of Ben Gabir's influence. The affair would have been buried if not for Yossi Eli's vigilance at News 13. What is the point of the big cover-up that the police tried to carry out in this investigation if not Ben Gabir's desire to prevent damage to his promiscuous weapons distribution. This It doesn't matter if Ben Gabir directly ordered the police to act one way or another, they simply understood the direction of the wind very well.
The late Yuval Castelman/courtesy of the family
Where is the commissioner? What is sad is that we used to come to him with complaints, write against him, criticize him, compliment him. But Ben Gvir makes him more and more irrelevant until during the war he became clearly irrelevant. Ben Gvir dictates the tone, and Shabtai Public There is. Shabtai is a good man, devoted to the organization he grew up in, but Ben Gvir finally turned him from a commissioner to a shadow.
These events are especially painful in light of the fact that the policemen really give their lives for the State of Israel.
They are brave, stand up to the storm, risk their lives for the sake of the citizens, work tirelessly 24 hours a day.
This is exactly why what Ben Gavir does to them with his bear hug is so painful.
When the next government is formed, whatever it may be, one of its national tasks will be to restore this organization from the ground up, to shake it as it has not been shaken since its days.
True, this is not the first time this text has been written about the police.
The difference is this: usually, the claim against the police was that they were suffering from organizational degeneration, a loss of direction and a lack of leadership.
Today the situation is worse: Ben Gvir took this degenerate organization and introduced a spirit into it, only this spirit is evil and dangerous.
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