Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s dialect has threatened to bring Israel back into deep political crisis to dismiss a top security officer, organizing protests to the opponents on Monday and the former court president warned against the “dangerous” move.
Netanyahu on Sunday cited “the ongoing shortage of the trust”, as the reason for going to Ronan Bar, the head of Shin Bet Internal Security Agency, after a similar bid by the government to exclude the Attorney General.
Bar, who have been in a public place with Netanyahu in recent weeks about the agency reforms, suggested that the premiere was the political objective behind the premiere’s decision to ask the government to dismiss them.
Attorney General Gali Bahrav Miara – Top Legal Advisor to Executive, who often took the positions colliding with the Netanyahu government – said the step was “unprecedented” and needed to assess its validity.
Bar said that it refused to meet the demands for Netanyahu’s “personal loyalty”.
The agency, under the leadership of the bar, has been accused of failing to stop the attack of Hamas, October 7, 2023, which triggered the war in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli media reports stated that Shin Bet was also investigating some of Netanyahu’s colleagues, who were allegedly receiving payment from Qatar, who hosted the leaders of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, even the Gaza war.
Many opposition parties have already announced that they will jointly petition the High Court against the dismissal of the bar, and the Attorney General said in a letter to Netanyahu that he cannot start the process “until the factual and legal basis of your decision is not completely clear”.
Baharav Miara himself is under the threat of a no-confidence motion submitted by Justice Minister Yariv Levin, who has fulfilled efforts to reform the judiciary and curb the powers of the court-a plan that raised major protests before Hamas came to a sudden stop with 2023 attacks.
Levin has accused Bahrav Miara of “unfair conduct”, a fierce defendant of the independence of the judiciary and cited “significant and prolonged disagreement between the government and the Attorney General.
Promised to move forward against two figures, risking the repetition of the 2023 protest movement, which was the most important in the history of Israel and fractured the country deeply.
– ‘Jerk for national security’ –
Coupled Force, a liberal umbrella organization that led the fight against judicial reform, announced rallies at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv this week to oppose the dismissal of Shin Bet Head.
The dismissal bar to be involved in the conversation on the delicate ceasefire in Gaza comes at an important time for talks.
The Trus has organized a large scale despite the deadlock in efforts to expand it from 19 January.
Ever since the Gaza war began, Netanyahu has rejected his Defense Minister, Yo Galant, while several senior military officers have resigned along with army chief Herzy Halevi.
Beni Gantz, an opposition person, who once served as the Defense Minister under Netanyahu, said on X that “the head of Pindli is a direct shock for national security dismissed and is inspired by disintegration of unity within the Israeli society.”
Former Supreme Court chairman Dorit Beinish told Cannes Public Radio that Netanyahu was leading the processes “are dangerous for society”.
“We need to wake up, and to wake up on time,” he said.
– ‘Power -Grab’ –
For Netanyahu’s colleagues, the step against the bar comes under the general rights of the government chief.
“There is a special reason in which normal country, even the head of an intelligence organization needs to be removed which is personally responsible for a large -scale intelligence failure, which caused the biggest disaster in the history of Israel?” Far-wide Finance Minister Bezellal Smotrich wrote on Telegram.
Nahm Barnia, the columnist of Daily Yediat Ahronoth, warned of the dangers arising out of the conflict between Netanyahu and Bar.
He wrote, “A Prime Minister who has lost his break will see fit because he will see fit, and his unsuccessful government will follow him in view of them.”
“It is slowly getting closer to a form of civil war … which does not have any belief and refuses to follow in security organizations”.
For rich tibon, writing for leftist daily haretez, “Israeli democracy is now in serious danger”.
“It is up to Israelis to decide if they will accept Netanyahu’s hostile power-gerb-and how far they will go to stop it”.
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