dryly emotionless.
Mandelblit (photo: screenshot, Keshet 12)
Avihai Mandelblit, the former chief military attorney, the secretary of one of Netanyahu's governments and finally the attorney general who filed an indictment against him for bribery, fraud and breach of trust - appeared in the interview he gave last night to Ilana Dayan on the "Ovda" program Bequest 12 as a rather boring and gray man.
Not much of a talker.
Does not crack monologues.
Does not do self-reflection, even though both sides, the hawks in Israel, each for their own reasons, believe they should.
He does not reveal many details.
Does not surrender to the interviewer, who tries to draw firm conclusions from him without much success.
silent.
A problematic interviewee, as journalists sometimes say among themselves.
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Few words, but hard.
Mandelblit (photo: screenshot, Keshet 12)
Precisely because of this, when Mandelblit did choose to be direct, the things he said are horrifying all the more: horrifying in their meaning, but mainly in the way they are said - casual, tired directness, without anger.
"This is not a reform, call it whatever you want, a coup, a complete regime revolution and it is a complete change of the DNA on which we grew up. This thing is the abolition of the independence of the judicial system from end to end," he says quietly about what is at stake.
Not a protester in Balfour, not even a political opponent, but a man who is still full of praise for his former boss.
Not in an argument or excitement or out of insult, but clearly: he sees a complete revolution in front of his eyes.
So.
unimaginably dry.
Who does not.
That's not the point.
In the never-ending debate, which is only escalating, those who have already made up their minds on these issues will not change their minds because Mandelblit said or did not say something to Ilana Dayan.
Those who agree - agree;
And those who don't - won't agree even now to things that have already been said in different forms anyway.
But this terrible dryness nevertheless gives them a different character, more desperate, helpless.
And that's nothing compared to what came next.
"It will get worse, it's not over. They won't give up (both sides). It will end in violence. Someone or whoever they are will pay the price in blood. That's what will happen," Mandelblit says of the toxic atmosphere like people talk about the weather.
His face wanders from place to place, his mouth blurts out things as if they were completely self-evident, almost anecdotal.
Notice these words and the style: "Someone will pay the price in blood."
How clear it is to anyone with eyes in their head that this is what is going to happen here: violence.
We are watching a collision that is about to happen, and the chance to prevent it no longer exists.
The shocking thing is that we are not shocked anymore.
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Everything else, as important as it is, is secondary and perhaps expected.
Faced with necessary questions, Mandelblit answered most of them with short answers, without opening Pandora's boxes.
The interviewee was boring, but Dayan's article was not without problems either.
In the Mholala, small talk on a football field because of the ombudsman's past as a player - this is a rather stupid choice, and as it turned out also worthless, for example. Required questions, and no less relevant to the topic, about the proceedings against Deri Welitzman and the plea deals signed with them were also missing. One of them is now causing a sharp uproar in Israeli politics, but this story was not given a significant stage by "Ovda" in this interview.
Then, of course, came the response from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office, which included wild accusations against Mandelblit, and somewhat reminded of a previous response that was once sent to the program. Also This time Dayan responded with the words "they don't say", but refuted one false claim. This too is already being received with indifference.
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