On Friday morning, Gali Tzahal commentator Yaakov Bardugo sat in the studio of the military broadcasting station and declared that Supreme Court Justice Hanan Meltzer was a racist. How did the honorable commentator reach this conclusion? By no means did the Honorable Justice address Minister of Internal Security Amir Ohana The day before, regarding Prime Minister Netanyahu’s conflict of interest. A waiter, according to Bardugo, did not call or call Minister “Minister Ohana” or “Minister of Internal Security” as is customary in courtrooms, but contented himself with a short “Ohana”, just like that, as if he were some simple person from the street. There is no doubt that racism is blown away.
This is an absolute pike. A lie that lies on a military radio station, with a determined forehead, with deliberate intent. Bardugo did not bother to discuss. Those who did bother themselves, as well as the minutes, testify that Judge Meltzer called Minister Ohana “Minister Ohana” or “Minister of Internal Security” throughout the hearing, like his other fellow judges.
Why am I bothering you with this lie? Not to ask how could a military broadcast station let this thing happen within its walls. There is no point in asking that anymore. This is not just another lie in the endless series of lies that has been hurled at us recently. This liar has legs, he has a head and he has a directed hand. It has a purpose: to start undermining the legitimacy of the High Court, the legitimacy of the judges, the legitimacy of Judge Meltzer. The reason: In the fascinating hearing from Thursday, which you hardly heard about in the media (except for the tireless Or-Lee Barlev flash), its size became clear , The intensity and impudence of the deception that the defendant deceived in bribery, fraud and breach of trust, the High Court, and all of us.
Just as he scolded Bnei Gantz, who believed him and signed a co-operation and rotation agreement with him, so he cheated on a panel of 11 High Court justices. Whoever was at the hearing reported rather shocked judges who simply did not believe what they heard from the prime minister’s learned lawyers. Just a few months ago, an extended panel sat in the Supreme Court and heard the same attorneys announcing that the prime minister would sign a conflict of interest settlement as usual, an arrangement that would prevent a situation where he would fall into a conflict of interest on the one hand and be a criminal defendant on the other. One (0-11) that Netanyahu is eligible to serve as prime minister despite the indictment. There will be no conflict of interest and comes to the rescue. Reminder: The entire 4000 case is based on a conflict of interest.
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Almost ten months have passed – and there is no conflict of interest arrangement. It started with the fact that Netanyahu atoned for the fact that it was the Attorney General who was preparing the conflict of interest settlement. In complete disregard of the fact that in Israel the authorized interpreter of the law before the government is solely the ombudsman, and he is also the one who has been preparing, since the establishment of the state, the conflict of interest arrangements of the prime minister and the public. Suddenly Mandelblit is incompetent. His affairs.
Jacob Bardugo (Photo: Jonathan Zindel, Flash 90)The judges in the High Court were almost shocked. But it did not end here. It barely started. Because then it turned out that Netanyahu did not need someone to formulate the conflict of interest for him, he would know for himself when a conflict of interest arose and when not. Yes, what you heard. That he at all demands to split the role of the ombudsman (a correct demand, only a pity that she came when he was no longer qualified to demand it because he was charged with a criminal trial). And then it became clear that he insisted on maintaining his right to be involved in the appointment of Supreme Court justices in Israel.
This is true: a defendant in a criminal trial who also serves as prime minister, and has promised the High Court that he will sign a conflict of interest settlement, requires access to the process of appointing judges in the High Court, to which every appeal will reach any result of his own trial. Anyone who has listened to the questions of the astonished judges to the lawyers, realizes how shocked they are by what they have discovered, with a slight delay. They realized they had been deceived, pocketed, told the truth and turned around. Fulfilled them, for the most basic constitutional principles on which the Israeli law and justice system stands.
Understood those who understood the situation and gave instructions, to those who gave, to launch an attack on the judges themselves. Here we have received the same Bardugo, who does not have a heinous lie that is small in size, explains that Judge Hanan Meltzer is a racist. I estimate it will continue this week on more fronts. Every beginning jurist knows that the time has come to determine Prime Minister Netanyahu’s fortification. His behavior, his outbursts in the system, his disregard for the commitments he himself made in the High Court – all of these produce fortifications. Does anyone have the courage to go for such a move? I doubt it. I’m also not sure I want that to happen, for the simple reason: just like last month Netanyahu will not hesitate before trialing his supporters in the Supreme Court, the Knesset, the State Attorney’s Office and the Ombudsman, in order to continue to destroy everything that has been built here for the purpose of escaping the terror of the law. civil war? Let there be a civil war. Everything is eligible, except for the defendant himself.