Yesterday, Avihai Mandelblit, the former attorney general, said two poignant and significant statements in an interview he gave to Ilana Dayan on the “Ovda” program. One: “We are going to the place where the ruler will decide and then the fortress will fall.” And the second: “Someone will pay in blood for the reform.”
The response of Simcha Rothman, the chairman of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, was not long in coming, and he said that a person like Mandelblit belongs in prison. Yesterday we were even informed that the coalition is promoting six months in prison for women who wear immodest clothing at the Western Wall.
Is this the new trend of the new government? Put in prison with unbearable lightness, everyone who does not please them? Every day a new wise man will arise from the coalition parties and try to promote one or another illusory law in order to prove that it is relevant and that he is more right-wing in his inclinations than the rest of his members in the government?
Not long ago I read that following the attack by Rothman and Minister Levin on the spokeswoman who criticized the legal reform and demanded that Deri’s appointment be revoked, the incitement against her in the network skyrocketed and Likud fans and its leader called for her to be prosecuted, just because she dared to do her job. , and Rothman and a friend of his, think that he, too, belongs in prison.
If you have to put in jail, anyone who opposes the moves and plans of the government, is going to have to wait in a very long line to enter the jail, of thousands of people who oppose those moves, and whom we meet every week in protests and demonstrations. Maybe we’ll put them all in jail, so the government can rule quietly and undisturbed.
The first revealing interview that Mandelblit gave last night to the “Ovda” show was extremely important, because it shed light on what was going on inside, in the corridors of the judicial system, until it was decided to file charges against Netanyahu. If up to this day, our Hindus have carried out a consciousness that the media just took care of the Prime Minister and persecuted him, and that he is accused of no wrongdoing, Mandelblit is actually implying with a thick insinuation that there were things in his body, and that the indictments were not necessarily filed because of champagne and cigars or the demand for sympathetic coverage. He said and did not really elaborate, what the investigation against Netanyahu revealed. However, from the little he volunteered last night in the interview, from his involvement in the affair, we learn that we have no idea what is written in the investigation materials and how serious things are.
In the first place, it took considerable courage on Mandelblit’s part to file charges against a man he was so close to, especially when he knew he would be slandered and torn to shreds, which raises the hypothesis that the charges may not be a trivial matter, and it is no longer so certain, That there was nothing because there is nothing.
And between us? Mandelblit could have easily gone under the radar and erased from his forehead the censure that Netanyahu’s admirers stuck on him, as someone who dared to file an indictment against a sitting prime minister. And yet he chose to return to the front of the stage and break his silence. And if anyone suspected for a moment and believed the arguments, that Mandelblit was blackmailed by Shai Nitzan, it was enough to look at his honest eyes, his honest and valuable answers, to see that this was a false speculation.
Another thing that strengthened my impression that his words were reliable, was the great disappointment he felt when he was exposed to the investigation materials, and which he expressed in the interview. Indirectly, this indicates the great esteem he had for Netanyahu, before the indictments were filed, that is, they were not filed out of some kind of vendetta or personal caprice.
Mandeblit does not need to worry that “the fort will fall”. In light of the recent events and the government’s run amok to carry out as quickly as possible a complete anarchy in the judicial system, without stopping for a moment and realizing that speed is from the devil, the fortress has already fallen and with it the forr.