Col. Zeev Raz was interviewed today (Monday) by News 12 and addressed the public uproar that arose due to a post he published on Facebook, in which he referred to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and wrote: “The Prime Minister is a mortal.” As a result, he was summoned for questioning at the Blahab 433 cyber unit.
A former senior Air Force officer caused an uproar: “The prime minister is a son of death”; the police opened an investigation
Raz was asked about the investigation and replied: “They were perfectly fine, the conversation was in a good atmosphere, and we only inquired about the topic of the post, which someone else drafted, and I shared it, which is drafted in a very blunt and extreme manner.”
He also added: “I have uploaded and continue to upload many posts that I do not agree with, that express an opinion different from mine and I share them because they are provocative and interesting. If he had said that now we should go and assassinate a prime minister or something like that, I certainly would not have uploaded it. He is talking about a situation My future, and he retracted that too. As mentioned, he is talking about a future situation, going to a dictatorship, and what needs to be done then. And this is an unnecessary text, so I also took it down and therefore also expressed my reservations about it. It was clear to me that every reader, as many times when I put up posts that I I don’t agree with them, here, this is what people thought, let’s address it.”
To the question of whether the police accepted this argument, he said that “yes, it took the investigator some time to be convinced that it was not me who wrote this text, and I proved to him that it was not me who wrote it.”
In conclusion, Raz noted: “A prime minister in Israel as a whole is of course not a mortal, and not only him. In general, an Israeli is not a mortal, we do not have the death penalty. I am sorry for the damage the post did to the public protest, I think it is a mistake, and that is why I also wrote Not long after I published this post, when I took it down, that this thing – I disapprove of it, I do not agree with it. And I oppose the words ‘son of death’ and ‘Dean Rafd’, but this thing must not obscure the concern of all of us and that is why the same person wrote it , not me, from the situation to which the country is moving. It’s a dangerous situation.”