The media person and advertiser Berla Crombie, was a guest at the Channel 7 studio and talked about his campaign of support for the legal reform.
“Until a month ago, I didn’t think that I would be involved in a support campaign for reform or Rival Levin or Simcha Rothman – two people with whom, by the way, I have nothing to do with,” Crombie began. “But there was a feeling in the air that something had to be done. We hear every week about the demonstrations against the reform and against Levin and Rothman. I called my friends in order to raise signs across the country with the inscription – ‘Thank you opponent.’ There is a lot of funding for protests against the reform and it seems that they are scoring a goal An empty gate. And thus I decided to open a crowdfunding website and we launched a crazy campaign.”
According to him, “This week several signs were vandalized in Givatayim and Ayalon. I received a lot of testimony about people who vandalize our signs and this is part of the disgrace of the discourse, unfortunately. Instead of calming the spirits and really calling for dialogue – the leaders of the protest and the opposition feed this incitement and it almost reaches the point of calling for violence.” .
“The right-wing and religious-nationalist public are against resistance and violence. Even when they evicted him from his house in Gush Katif, he hugged the soldiers, said a ‘prayer for the poor’ with them and got on the buses gracefully. On the other hand, we see all kinds of people glorifying and imitating all kinds of violent left-wing protests from around the world.” he adds.
He was asked about the campaign, which is leading a trend of a desire for dialogue, and replied: “They managed to create some equation here that either you support the legal reform or you support the unity of the people. I actually think that passing the reform as it is will lead to healing and the unity of the people,” he claimed. “After years of evacuating Amona, destroying Gush Katif and causing the demolition of houses in Ofra, these are the things that caused the division.”
“I am in favor of dialogue and in favor of the desire to tell them ‘we are brothers.’ The committee to select judges will create such a drama. This is a committee that did not engage anyone from the public until recently. People really think that this is the end of democracy – and here we come to the fore to explain to them,” he concluded.