Netanyahu at the commission of inquiry into the Miron disaster: "I cannot accept responsibility for what you do not know"/Government Press Office
You only need to replace one word in the central conclusion of the State Commission of Inquiry into the Miron disaster, to understand how topical and relevant it is even today.
"The Miron disaster could and should have been prevented," the committee members wrote.
And now imagine that it says "the October 7 disaster": "The writing was on the wall long before the disaster happened, written in white Kiddush letters, in a sharp and clear way, but it remained there unanswered. Many of the findings that will be detailed later in the report were visible and known to all. Also the dire result that they might lead to was known. As in a Greek tragedy, the end was known in advance. There was no telling when it would happen, on whose watch, or in what part of the site. There was no telling what price would be exacted, how many revelers would pay with their lives and health, how many families would be left broken But it was clear that the disaster would come."
Netanyahu's line of defense, who "didn't know" about the failures, is rolling from all the stairs/Reuters
On October 7th, two and a half years after the greatest civil disaster in the country's history - during the festivity of the Rashbi Balag BaOmer 2021, the greatest security disaster Israel has ever known occurred.
It is almost impossible to read the Miron report without drawing parallels between the disasters, and without shuddering at what they have in common: the culture of the neighborhood and the "Israel Bluff", the collective thinking, and above all - the leader.
The classic line of defense of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who "did not know" about the failures in Miron because they did not "pull the lapel of his coat", and also "did not know" about October 7 because he was not woken up the night before and told that "Hamas is deterred", Gogol of all the stairs.
"The Prime Minister has the responsibility to proactively identify issues that require the attention of his office and, if necessary, his intervention, in particular human life," reads the Miron Committee report, which clearly states: the Prime Minister is responsible, even if he tries to shift the responsibility from him onwards.
This Also relevant for October 7.
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Ohana will live without returning to the cursed Department of Homeland Security.
Speaker of the Ohana/TPS Knesset, Yoav Dudkevich
Netanyahu is of course not alone.
He is only the first of a long line of individuals bearing personal responsibility for the Miron disaster, which claimed the lives of 45 innocent citizens, whose names appear at the top of the report and whose spirit hovers above all his words.
From the Speaker of the Knesset and the former Minister of Internal Security, Amir Ohana, to the Police Commissioner, Kobi Shabtai, to the former Minister of Religious Services, Yaakov Avitan, and a battery of ultra-Orthodox policemen and businessmen who neglected the revelry in Miron for years.
The committee also refrained from publishing an operative recommendation in Netanyahu's case, compared to other directly responsible persons, such as the Commissioner, who recommended that his position be terminated, Ohana, who will not be able to return to the Ministry of Internal Security, and police officers and other officials who will face a criminal investigation or be forced to leave their positions. The focus on sanctions The personality serves Netanyahu, and shifts the responsibility from him again. There were even those around him who wished today that even if a state commission of inquiry is formed for October 7, it would impose the same responsibility on him as in the Miron commission.
But it is not the punishment imposed, or not, on Netanyahu What is important in the Miron report, Ohana will also live without returning to the cursed Ministry of Internal Security, but rather his clear value statements about what responsibility is, and the image he places on the patients of our leadership and the trust we place in elected officials.
"We found a bad culture inside our home," the committee wrote in its concluding remarks.
"Within public bodies, in governmental authorities and among public messengers - elected and appointed, in whose hands the public entrusts its safety and security... a bad culture of 'small head', of minimizing responsibility and evading it."
Most of the time when this bad governmental culture developed, Netanyahu was in power.
This is also relevant for October 7th.
Netanyahu denied the committee's recommendations and claimed that it was "political defiance" by Lapid, no less./Reuven Castro
In a reformed world a prime minister would perhaps have taken responsibility after the Miron report and announced that he was going home, in a reformed world he would also have taken responsibility for the October 7 disaster, in which more than 1200 Israelis were massacred and 240 were kidnapped by Hamas in Gaza, 134 of whom are still there already More than 150 days.
But in Netanyahu's world, the Miron report has no political significance if it does not cause any coalition shock or shake up in his chair.
In an unfathomable announcement on behalf of the Likud, Netanyahu denied the committee's recommendations and claimed that it was "political defiance" by Yair Lapid, no less.
The government does not even have to adopt the committee's recommendations and conclusions - which are important to prevent the next disaster.
(If anything, the report places the chairman of the state camp, Benny Gantz, with another contradiction in his meeting in the emergency government: the committee recommended setting a date for the retirement of commissioner Kobi Shabtai, whose tenure was extended until now thanks to the agreement that Gantz signed upon entering the government at the beginning of the war. If he retires, The Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, will be able to appoint a commissioner loyal mainly to him, and take over the police without any hindrance. Gantz is expected to find himself in a difficult dilemma.)
Even if it does not undermine Netanyahu's rule, the Miron report has public and historical importance according to the Times It re-fills in its content the concept of responsibility that Netanyahu has been trying to evade throughout his years in power. It is not for nothing that he has avoided establishing state investigative committees and has always preferred to be content with inspections by the State Comptroller. But in 50 years, when students will learn in history classes about the two great disasters that befell the State of Israel while Less than a decade, his name will always be listed first.This
also applies to October 7th.
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