The police activated Makhtaz Zeit against demonstrators in Tel Aviv/Niv Aharonson
In advertisements calling for young people to join the Israel Police, quite a few representative types appear.
Their goal is to present a diverse police force, both in terms of the roles it offers and in terms of those who serve in its ranks.
"Come serve with people like me" is the message that also comes from the words of the police-actors - and the advertisement is signed by expanding the message: "Come serve with people like you".
Only one is missing, the minister in charge, who will sign the advertisement with "come serve under a minister like me".
There are many good reasons to enlist in the police, but it seems that those who enlist during the tenure of the current minister must be identified with some of his ranks.
Because while the IDF belongs to all of us - and for a long time the same force has been attacked by people who belong to different currents, even opposites in citizenship, but are ready to die one for their friend while in uniform, the Israel Police is being painted in political colors, a dangerous course that if it continues it will cease to be worthy of its name: Israel.
This is disappointing, especially because it seemed that the events of October 7th did to the image of the police what no campaign could do to it.
The citizens of Israel, already despairing of the functioning of the police on a day-to-day level, turned to it in the area of property crimes (for example) not to win a bailout But in order to get the necessary paperwork for the insurance company, who got used to seeing in all those investigative programs about fraudsters, that complaints about fraud are almost never investigated, they suddenly discovered the Israel Police in its glory, as a public servant in an emergency. The policemen who fell while protecting citizens with their bodies, responded to the police (with justice!) A lot of respect to play on the field day after day.
Line up with Ben Gvir or get kicked out of the organization.
This is how the Israel Police is turned into a private police/spokesperson of the Israel Police
Keeping order?
You made the honorable minister laugh
This embrace lasted for almost four months, until the protests against the government resumed - at first on the sidelines of the demonstrations of the families of the abductees and in the last two or three days, even more so, in the demonstrations calling for elections.
People join the police for all sorts of reasons, from ideologies to ordinary professionalism.
That is to say, even in the previous rounds of the demonstrations for democracy, there were - alongside policemen who looked at the demonstrators with their eyes wide-eyed and only asked for the event to end peacefully, there were also those who, while still at home, wearing their uniforms, wished for a confrontation that would allow them to bring them down on the head of a leftist-maniac.
What happened "in the pause" between the demonstrations until the beginning of October and those of the end of February?
"Those who strive for contact" were promoted - even in the most senior ranks, even at the field level.
Those who rushed to line up with the minister in charge improved their chances of advancing in the organization.
But what happens when the minister in charge is himself a convicted felon - and worse, one who won't walk past a spark without dousing him with a jerrycan of gasoline?
To borrow an image from the field of football, those in charge of the police (whether they are elected officials or their servants) are like a judicial team: the main indication of faithful performance of their work is that no one remembers their names after the event.
Try for a moment to recall the names of previous police (or internal security) ministers.
Omer Bar Lev is still fresh in the memory, after him the business gets a little hazy.
I posed this puzzle to a few friends over the past weekend.
The results were quite poor: one managed to remember that he was "Well, this one, what's his name? From Lieberman's party, but not a Russian" and another one who proudly proclaimed "A proverb from Shechel!"
You are a great man that no one will probably forget - and not for the right reasons.
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A demonstration is being organized in the Bhima square, on the way to Kaplan.
The police decided to turn a marginal event into an official fight/website, Rony Shapiro Rony Shapiro
Most of the time, he is easily dismissed from responsibility, that is, they are satisfied with all that is pointed out that he is not responsible, especially when watching his (admittedly consistent) attempts to drag the Israeli Arabs into the circle of violence.
Not sure that it won't work for him in the end, especially after he brought the fire closer to the holy place for most of them.
This is not someone who is recommended to be reduced to the level of a "TikTok clown" as many of his critics do.
It's not worth it, especially because those who follow the minister's work discover that his pyromania is a smokescreen for an orderly activity in which the Israel Police is asked not only to align its ranks to the right, but also to the extreme right, its quarry, in the process he mentions (still on the fringes, luckily, through all kinds of framework alternative but armed) the plot of a mechanical orange.
It's hard to be enthusiastic about the renewed Kaplan protest, mainly because if its strength until before October was the fact that it was able to recruit not only the left but also the center and here and there even right-wingers who were fed up with Netanyahu's losing ways, then the protest this time started with "professional" demonstrators - they were already seen yesterday On the outskirts are signs calling for the IDF to be removed from Gaza, something that leaves quite a few sane people at home.
It's hard to get excited about the protesters, but the attitude of the police is hard to bear. Yesterday, the protesters in Kaplan met policemen who put up a fight, the kind who strive for contact instead of praying that it won't be necessary. This Not an innovation, but a gradual process, but after a few relatively quiet months, last night it became even more evident that the dangerous process the police are going through.
Paradoxically, this attitude became the fuel that ignites a protest that was not supposed to be renewed, at least not as long as the unity government exists. Quite a few people Those who remained in their homes (that is, most of the participants of the Kaplan protest before the war) saw the Makhtaziyas and the horses, the police officers who were fighting - and thought that maybe they really had to go back to the streets.
A cavalryman whips a protester in the head, February 24, 2024/Jeremy Portnoy
We'll see you, man
Those who think that the change of attitude on the part of the police is accidental, spot-on, depending on the development on the ground - are making a bitter mistake.
This is a planned and coordinated move between the Prime Minister and his Minister of National Security.
Both are comfortable presenting themselves as rivals - one nods to the extremist base and the other is portrayed as the responsible adult, not her - Ben Gabir is a soldier of Netanyahu's, even if it is a soldier who has his own agenda and is sometimes difficult to restrain.
All of this has a clear purpose, of course: to bring back the discourse of before the war, the one in which Netanyahu is almost in a tie and not in such a clear inferior position.
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This time the message page includes an answer to the lowest place the government has reached even among Likud supporters: its losing position on the recruitment issue.
Suddenly the Kaplanists are presented as hypocrites, as those who preached to the recalcitrants (a very unfair generalization because even the few who did threaten it were the first to show up for their vigil), but now suddenly it is urgent for them to recruit the ultra-Orthodox.
The interest is clear: to take this moral-value dispute, in which both the "brothers-in-arms" and most of religious Zionism are on the same side, and turn it into left-right, RLBs against Bibists.
Those who define themselves as the "Kaplan force" play in this equation. In Netanyahu's hands: Instead of letting him and his government stew in the juice of his failed appointments and bad choices, they bring the "derby" atmosphere back to the streets.
And on the streets they meet police who have changed their approach:
from a call to keep the peace (which still appears as lip service in the official announcements to the media) to calls of "let's see" You are a man," which will quickly be answered with cries of "Let's see you, son of a man" - and
from there the road to destruction is short, with each side faithfully fulfilling its part in this stupid equation, with the Minister of National Security and the Prime Minister sitting above them and laughing all the way to anarchy.
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