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Shouts, screams and lies: This is how the TV channels covered the farce of electing the Minister of Justice
There is no dramatic framing that will make the average viewer get excited about something done by the bunch of personalities leading the country.
The positions won.
The truth lost.
Even if Yonit opens the edition with the words: "Benjamin Netanyahu violently attacks three blind Labrador puppies", it is likely that the state will be divided for and against
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Wednesday, 28 April 2021, 08:11 Updated: 08:24
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"Chaos", "The Greatest Depression in the History of the State", "Constitutional Pogrom", "Attack against the Rule of Law". These are just some of the extreme images that were attached last night in the three major channels to the tumultuous cabinet meeting. The dramatic framing is not excessive for a change. The "shouting session" (News 12 and 13) or the "screaming meeting" (news 11) ended with a criminal defendant knowingly breaking the law (which he himself passed) and appointing one of his most prominent associates, who was not allowed to be appointed because of a conflict of interest, who was Formerly his close media adviser - contrary to the Attorney General's ruling.
It's really dramatic. And this is not normal. And it should not happen. And this is a terrorist attack, a pogrom, a Holocaust, trouble and distress. All true. On the other hand, it's also starting to get a little boring. In an age where almost every evening the main Israeli newscast opens with the smug face of a political commentator declaring a "drama," it is hard to get excited about another night of blatant political fraud. that's how it is. The boy shouted "wolf" again. Big deal. Israeli democracy has been buried here too many times, and now that the ZCA has come to collect the body parts, there is no one to mourn.
It's not "just Bibi" or "just not Bibi".
The truth is that this is not an issue at all from the political worlds, but from the realms of logic.
One does not need to understand the intricacies of the infamous law that gave birth to the parity government.
It is a net matter of common sense.
A criminal defendant cannot determine the identity of the Minister of Justice.
just no.
You do not need a certified legal advice or a prestigious High Court ruling. This is a logic that every child in first grade should understand. You do not let the cat keep the cream, and equally do not let the cat choose which of his best friends will be the one to keep the cream. For a criminal defendant to appoint the man from whom his judges are appointed is a fundamentally rotten democracy.
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What happened in Israel is not as well photographed, but no less serious.
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News 12 likened Netanyahu's move as the local equivalent of the violent onslaught on the Washington Capitol last January. At first it feels like an exaggeration, except that if you really think about it you realize that this is an equally serious event. This is not an angry and violent mob trying to unload any burden against the rule of government, but this is the government itself. The government ministers, the people who still set the public agenda here, all mobilized to demonstrate the law in a demonstrative way - on the mission of a criminal defendant. It's a little less sexy than Vikings breaking into the Congress building, but it's no less dangerous.
The problem is that at this point, there really is no dramatic framing that will make the average viewer get excited about something done by the bunch of personalities leading this country. The positions won. The truth lost. Even if Yonit opens the newscast with the words: "Benjamin Netanyahu this evening violently attacked three blind Labrador puppies, two of whom were hospitalized in a humane condition," it is likely that the state will be divided for and against. One can imagine how Yinon Magal would claim that Labradors are an antisemitic breed and Avishai Ben-Haim would mention that these are the hegemonic dogs of the first Israel.
There are Israelis who are in favor of Netanyahu and there are those who are against it, but it is hard to believe that there are Israelis who enjoy the ongoing political paralysis that makes running the country impossible.
Israelis want to end the month.
They want to make a decent living.
They want to buy an apartment, they want to find parking near the house when they return from work or at least not get stuck for hours in an unnecessary traffic jam at the entrance to their locality.
Has the prime minister appointed one of his henchmen to a key position that could determine his legal future illegally?
Who even has the power for that?
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Hopefully the "source" caused him to have insomnia.
Ophir Akunis (Photo: Reuven Castro)
It was interesting to watch this evening on Channel 20, mainly to see how Netanyahu's people will deal with a really quite simple issue where the law says something very clear, and the prime minister does the exact opposite. The result was not really surprising: Channel 20's "journalists" simply chose to lie to their viewers, stating that because the Knesset had disbanded then the privatization government law was repealed and therefore Netanyahu could do whatever he pleased with the interim government. It's hard to believe there's one person in the Channel 20 system who really believes this, which has made this resounding lie more repulsive.
Ironically, the channel did give the stage to rival Oppenheimer to present such a crazy conspiracy theory that it should not be outright disqualified. According to Oppenheimer, Netanyahu is trying to recruit his associate Akunis as justice minister so that the latter can roll an early pardon request to Yariv Levin, who will fill the position of acting president after the end of Ruby Rivlin's term last July.
It is hard to believe that this connection theory is correct for the simple reason: there is no chance that Netanyahu believed that there was a legal possibility for this move.
He knew Mandelblit would rule that the vote was illegal.
He knows that the High Court will disqualify Akunis' appointment. When you think about it, it makes much more sense for Netanyahu to embark on this ridiculous move to divert the flames from the broadcast of the "source" investigation into Shaya Segal.
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Would anyone be surprised if everything was a spin so they would not talk about the "source"?
(Photo: Screenshot, Network 13)
And let's say yes, that the Prime Minister has put the entire political and legal system into a dangerous and anti-democratic spin as a spin-off to a TV investigation that portrays his wife as a morbid miser, would anyone really be surprised? And more importantly, does anyone even care?
At a perfect time that is all poetic justice, Raviv Drucker's investigation revealed what happens at the end of the road to those loyal associates of Netanyahu. Like Ophir Akunis, Shaya Segal was a communications consultant to Netanyahu. Like him, he fought for him, lied for him, received hollow promises but at the same time doors were opened for him in the most influential rooms in the country. In the end, in a kind of confession that wounded evil, Segal tried to make a confession and expose the dimensions of the moral and criminal corruption to which he was exposed during his years closely with the Netanyahu family. This confession will not go to court, because the dead cannot testify, and certainly not cross-examine. And yet, it is good that this confession has been published.
Netanyahu's supporters did not change their minds about him following the "source" investigation, but it is to be hoped that he caused at least one viewer named Ophir Akunis to be insomniac.
He too knows that no matter what he does from now until the end of his career, this day will haunt him.
He may sign peace agreements, solve the traffic jam problem in Gush Dan and bring Beyoncé to a concert at Sami Ofer Stadium - and he will still be remembered as the ridiculous puppet who agreed to be appointed justice minister for several hours as a rubber stamp of corruption and contempt for democracy.
A reminder of how Netanyahu treats his loyalists (Photo: screenshot, Network 13)
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In January 2018, Ofir Akunis announced that he was considering running for mayor of Tel Aviv.
In an interview with Amit Segal and Yaron Dekel in Gali Tzahal, Akunis claimed that the first Hebrew city needed a change and stated with confidence that "if I make the decision to run for office, I will win." It is not clear how true this statement was at the time, Shakunis will replace Huldai in the mayor's office at Ibn Gvirol 69, this chance was buried yesterday, along with the integrity remnants of Likud party members and their aides.
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