Netanyahu at the commission of inquiry into the Miron disaster: "I cannot accept responsibility for what you do not know"/Government Press Office
In his testimony before the State Commission of Inquiry to investigate the disaster in Miron, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that if they had grabbed "the lapel of his coat" and warned him that a terrible disaster might occur, he would have dealt with the matter immediately.
Netanyahu's choice of this phrase was beautiful: literary, unusual in everyday speech, certainly not in these contexts.
Netanyahu knows a book and knows the Bible. The intriguing thing is if when he used the phrase, a similar phrase related to the coat occurred to him - "the wing of the coat" - the story of King Shaul's great leadership crisis, which marked the end of his career. After the words of rebuke that Shaul heard from Shmuel in Gilgal Following his moral failures (by the way, failures of conception in his war against Agag, the king of Amalek), Shmuel turned to walk away from him, and then it is written: "And he grasped the wing
of his coat and it was torn. "
Shmuel, because he did not want him to go without him and thus be humiliated in front of the people, which caused the tearing of Shmuel's coat.) Shmuel there explains to Saul that the tearing of the coat symbolizes the expected tearing of his kingdom and the transfer of the kingship to another person. Shmuel's words are said after an entire chapter, in which Shaul invents excuses Different and different for his omission: why is it not his fault but the people, why did he not correctly understand the task that was assigned to him. After the line of poor excuses, Shmuel tells him: "If you are small in your eyes, you are the head of the tribes of Israel, and God will anoint you to be king over Israel." In simple words, Shmuel says to Saul: As a king you don't have the privilege of being a little head and saying: "It's not me." It doesn't work that way. This is exactly what the investigative committee told Netanyahu yesterday.
Netanyahu in his testimony at the commission of inquiry into the Miron/Flash 90 disaster, Yonatan Zindel
"We examined the things," the committee wrote.
"After we did this, we came to the general conclusion that from all the details it appears that there is a reasonable basis for Netanyahu to have known that the site of the Rashbi's tomb had been poorly cared for for years, and that the deficiencies could create a risk for the multitudes of participants in the revelry that was held at the site of Lag BaOmer. At the very least, under the circumstances of the matter, it was He must know about this after the issue was brought to his office many times, and after he himself was required to do so several times in government discussions. Therefore, we cannot accept Netanyahu's claim that he was not caught red-handed."
Netanyahu feared the imposition of this personal responsibility and therefore, after the committee warned him last year, he requested a legal opinion from Prof. Ariel Bandor regarding the limits of the decree of his responsibility.
Bandor wrote that the prime minister's role is to focus on national security and that dealing with civil affairs is secondary - and therefore there is no room to hold him personally responsible for the Miron matter.
The committee rejected Prof. Bandor's conclusion - and rightly so.
What is interesting, however, is that in his opinion Bandor focuses his argument on the fact that the prime minister's overall responsibility is for security matters, and as an example he gives Ehud Barak, who, although he had no direct responsibility for the events of October 2000, the state investigation committee at the time (Or Committee - BK ) determined that due to the severe security consequences for which he was the bearer of responsibility. It therefore turned out that Bandor's opinion became a double-edged sword for Netanyahu, not only did it fail to benefit him in Miron's affairs, it became a founding text regarding his direct, clear and distinct responsibility for the events of Shiva in October.
The truth is That we didn't need Bandor's opinion to understand this. The light and the material here cries out to the heavens. If in the matter of a civilian disaster the State Commission of Inquiry found Netanyahu personally responsible, is there any question regarding his responsibility for the death of approximately 1,200 Israeli citizens and the kidnapping of hundreds more? Is there a question regarding Netanyahu's personal responsibility for the concept that he led during all the years of his tenure in which Hamas became a regional monster? Is there really such a question? Perhaps because the question mark does not exist here, and because it is clear that such a future commission of inquiry will kill Netanyahu, he is doing everything to prevent it from arising .
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"We regret that for the first time in the history of the country," the Likud party said in a statement yesterday in response to the Noor-Berliner report, "the government led by Bennett and Lapid established an investigative committee against its predecessor on the political right, and that a key member of the committee is Lapid's close associate, Shlomo Yanai, who received a proposal from him to a place on the Yesh Atid list for the Knesset.
This is absolutely clear political defiance.
Lapid's cynical and deliberate attempt to turn the Miron disaster into a political weapon will not succeed." It is difficult to decide where to start regarding the pile of garbage with these words. To spit in the faces of the families of the victims? To completely ignore the failure that happened? To blackmail an IDF general just because Netanyahu didn't like the The criticism of him?
The crux of the matter is at the beginning of this disturbing message - the claim about the very decision to establish the committee.
According to the Likud system, such a committee should not have been formed at all.
45 civilians were crushed to death during a holiday revelry, and from the point of view of the Likud it was possible to move on.
For the very unfounded claim about a government checking a previous government (the public is not important here, only the reckoning between the politicians turns out), the Miron disaster occurred on April 30, 2021. The Bennett-Lapid government was sworn in on June 13, 2021. Despite the dimensions of the disaster and the glaring failure, for For two and a half months, the Netanyahu government did not establish an investigative committee.
So what is the Likud's foam about?
Because the government that came after it did establish a committee?
One government covers up its responsibility and then gets angry that the one that came after it doesn't perpetuate the cover-up?
sick.
Do you still have any doubt in your mind as to whether Netanyahu would establish a state commission of inquiry into the events of Shiva in October if it were up to him?
By the way, last night the media person Yanon Magal claimed in his program that Sara Netanyahu is behind the Likud's response.
Hard to decide which is worse?
If this is a lie from Netanyahu's creative house designed to distance him from responsibility, or if it is a truth that indicates who is running things here.
One way or another, the committee's words about the culture of the leadership here speak for themselves: "We found a bad culture in our house. In public bodies, in governmental authorities and among public messengers - elected and appointed, in whose hands the public entrusted its safety and security. We found a bad culture of presenting things on the surface only, of ignoring repeated warnings, of complacency and mental fixation on significant matters concerning public safety and the preservation of human life. A bad culture of the absence of governance and the rule of law and an action pattern of procrastination and of avoiding decision-making. A reality of conduct that is negatively influenced by political interests and foreign considerations. Culture The evil of a 'small head', of minimizing responsibility and avoiding it. This evil culture led to the terrible disaster on Mount Meron in the 19th century in Omer the 19th century.
The Likud announcement is the most extreme expression of this bad culture.
It seems that yesterday some senior members of the coalition already understood this, among them Nir Barkat.
Who runs things?
Netanyahu and his wife Sara/Niv Aharonson
The presenters of "Bad Culture"
And there is another senior member of the Likud, the current head of the legislative authority, who is at the center of the investigative committee's report. In those days, Amir Ohana was an energetic minister of internal security who told every casual microphone how involved he was in the work of the police, how much he was not a pothead, how much he personally followed everything that was happening Operationally. Of course, after the terrible disaster, the tone changed, and Ohana provided us all with the well-known immortal sentence: "Responsibility does not mean guilt." Ohana (like his successor) wanted to take credit for the successes and shrug off the failures. Such is the man who at that time was mainly busy with his work as Netanyahu's Minister of Defense , as a minister who is busy trying to suppress the Balfour demonstrators. Unlike the impression he tried to create in the public, Ohana did not hover over the event, but heard directly in the most sharp, distinct and clear manner from the general command staff about the fear of loss of human life. The words were recorded in a conversation that was also published. In the same conversation, after presenting To Ohana a video from a previous revelry, he asks: "When was the last time people were trampled and crushed there?" Some of those present answer him: "We were close to it.
" He heard the statement of the senior officials in the police regarding the high level of risk that exists in the party year after year, but did not dwell on it and did not demand answers to difficult questions that he had to ask.
He did not investigate the matter in depth and did not ask for clarification regarding the operational decision not to limit the crowd in the revelry and how to reduce the dangers arising from it."
However, Ohana in 2021, like Levin in 2023, was drunk on power, invested in the sick fantasy of marching the D-9 army to Bin Kotli The Supreme Court. He was less attentive to life itself, not to the physical security of the citizens, nor to their financial security. Ohana wanted to show everyone that he was a sheriff in the police, as he had previously been a sheriff in the Ministry of Justice, he was less interested in streamlining the police service to the citizen, just as Levin was not An interest in 2023, and in fact he is not interested to this day, the fact that the justice system is stuck, that citizens do not get their day in court. Ohana and Levin are the presenters of the bad culture that the committee talked about.
Amir Ohana in his testimony at the investigative committee/Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel
The Noor-Berliner Commission is the third state investigative commission that deals with huge failures of the Israel Police.
It was preceded by the Shamgar Committee (the massacre at the Cave of the Patriarchs in '94) and the Or Committee (the events of October 2000).
The three committees found very serious flaws in the conduct of the police and its organizational and operational culture: small-mindedness, lack of professionalism, mental fixation, poor command at the national headquarters and the lack of an investigative culture.
It is an organization that suffers from a continuous failure in its management, partly due to the whims of the ministers who change it.
The current and his predecessor are the worst ministers in the history of this office, and the ones who caused the greatest damage to it.
It is impossible not to feel sorry for the commissioner who was appointed by Ohana and tortured by Ben Gvir. Kobi Shabtai is a moral officer and a good person, a true field man, but he was the wrong officer at the wrong time. He was put in the position as part of Ohana's defiance of the system and was You have to deal with impossible situations. He was appointed without having previously commanded a district, had no experience working with civilians (he spent most of his career in the MGB) and was inexperienced in the classic work of a blue-collar police.
All these were in his hands.
Two bad ministers, rich in chauvinism, are the last thing he needed at the end of his career.
They did what they wanted with him.
Those who go to bed with Ohana and Ben Gvir wake up with a principled impeachment recommendation that was not realized only due to the war situation.
The wrong officer at the wrong time.
Kobi Shabtai/Shlomi Gabai
It is doubtful if there was anyone who read the Noor-Berliner report yesterday and did not think about the report that has not yet been written, and that the committee that will write it has not yet been established - the report of the committee that will investigate the disaster 30 times larger than the Miron disaster. The Prime Minister, and apparently his wife as well , will do everything so that a commission of inquiry into the events of Shiva in October will not be established. Towards the end of the Noor-Berliner report, its members quote the Tract of the Fathers: "Where there are no people, try to be a man."
Is the announcement by Nir Barkat and other members of the coalition yesterday against the Likud's despicable announcement, the beginning of such an effort?
One can only hope.
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