They are being exposed!!!
One of Israel’s most prominent and independent journalists, Ayala Hasson, not from the right, is sounding the alarm about what she says is happening at the very top of Israel’s justice system, at the Supreme Court.
“Something here is deeply distorted,” Hasson warned. “What happened behind the scenes? Who fabricated this case?”
Then she delivered the line that should shake every Israeli:
“There is an attempt to bury this affair.”
And Hasson went straight to the Supreme Court:
“The Supreme Court should have been outraged that they (the Attorney General’s office) dared to deceive it.”
That is the real story.
The problem is no longer merely the former Military Advocate General. The problem reaches the institution sitting at the very top of Israel’s judicial system: the Attorjey General’s office and the Supreme Court.
And that makes the upcoming Israeli election enormously consequential.
With existing vacancies and expected retirements, as many as 10 of the Supreme Court’s 15 seats could require appointments during the next government’s term.
Think about that.
The government Israelis elect will shape the Supreme Court for a generation.
And the political divide could hardly be clearer.
A Netanyahu-led government and its allies have spent years demanding fundamental judicial reform to rebalance power between Israel’s elected branches and its unelected judicial officials, including the AG office and the Supreme Court.
An alternative government led by figures such as Gadi Eisenkot and supported by parties of the Israeli left would take a profoundly different approach toward the existing judicial establishment, they would strengthen the hold of the deep state within the Supreme Court and the judicial system.
That means this election isn't merely about Netanyahu versus Eisenkot.
It is about whether Israel reforms its judicial system, or further entrenches the extraordinary powers accumulated by the Supreme Court and legal establishment.
That is why Hasson’s warning matters so much.
The scandal surrounding former Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi began with a betrayal of the IDF soldiers of Force 100.
The very military legal establishment entrusted with safeguarding our soldiers turned its enormous power against them, telling the world that they were “despicable rapists of terrorists”. The Military Advocate General admitted to leaking a video, proven to be edited, of the alleged crime and it spread around the world, helping portray Israeli soldiers as monsters while they were fighting our enemies.
That was a betrayal of our soldiers, our army and our country by the highest-ranking legal official in the IDF.
The video did not show what the world was led to believe it showed, and the indictment against the Force 100 soldiers was ultimately withdrawn.
But by then, the damage had already been done. Global headline news. Anti-Israel UN resolutions. These soldiers publicly disgraced before the entire world, their names and reputations dragged through the mud before their guilt was ever established.
The consequences devastated their personal lives, families were torn apart, jobs were lost, and one of the soldiers took his own life.
Their reputations were destroyed first. Still no accountability for those responsible.
Tomer-Yerushalmi subsequently became the central suspect in the investigation into the video leak.
You would therefore expect the entire justice system to demand:
Who authorized it?
Who participated?
Who knew?
Who misled the courts?
Who protected whom?
Expose everything.
Instead, Hasson is warning:
“There is an earth-shattering affair here... and they (senior officials in the Justice system) want to blur it and bury it.”
And that is where the Supreme Court becomes central.
When elected politicians are suspected of wrongdoing, Israel’s legal establishment unleashes investigations, interrogations, prosecutors and court proceedings.
But when allegations reach into that same legal establishment, suddenly Israelis encounter conflicts of interest, procedural obstacles and arguments over why further scrutiny isn't necessary.
This is the fundamental democratic problem Israel must confront.
An unelected judicial and legal establishment has accumulated extraordinary authority over elected governments while the mechanisms for holding that establishment itself accountable remain far weaker.
The Supreme Court can restrain elected governments.
The Attorney General can restrain elected ministers.
Legal advisers can prevent government policies from being implemented.
Yet when serious allegations implicate the legal establishment itself, who restrains them?
That is not sufficient checks and balances. It is an enormous concentration of unelected power.
And reforming that imbalance is not an attack on democracy.
It is strengthening democracy.
That is what makes the coming Supreme Court appointments so consequential.
If Netanyahu and the right-wing parties succeed in making a government, they will continue with judicial reform, to build a system with an independent judiciary and genuine accountability.
If Eisenkot and the political left form the next government, they will preserve and further entrench the existing deep state judicial power structure, halt the reforms and reverse the appointments and hard-won changes this government has managed to achieve so far.
This isn't an abstract argument anymore.
The Force 100 showed Israelis what happens when enormous legal power is exercised against our own soldiers.
The Supreme Court stonewalling an investigation into the former Military Advocate General raises the question of what happens when scrutiny reaches those exercising that power.
And Ayala Hasson is now warning Israelis that “there is an attempt to bury this affair.”
The coming election will help determine who appoints the next generation of Supreme Court justices and what institutional philosophy guides those appointments.
That is a democratic choice of enormous consequence.
Because the question is no longer simply who governs Israel for the next four years.
The question is whether Israel restores democratic accountability to its judicial system or allows an increasingly powerful unelected deep state establishment to become even more deeply entrenched for a generation.
The choice is ours. Hopefully, the people of Israel will choose wisely.
The question is whether enough Israelis have awakened to the reality of a powerful, unelected elite embedded at the highest levels of our security, intelligence, judicial and bureaucratic establishments, an entrenched establishment that too often obstructs the elected leadership and prevents the people of Israel from fully embracing its purpose back as a sovereign Jewish nation in our God-given, indigenous, ancestral homeland.
Or do more Israelis still need to wake up before we can finally break this stranglehold and restore genuine democratic accountability?
Regardless of what happens in the coming election, something much bigger is already happening. The Jewish people in Israel are awakening. We are strengthening our Jewish identity, reconnecting with our purpose and strengthening Israel as a proudly Jewish state.
The deep state may delay this awakening. It may fight it. But it cannot stop it.
It is not a question of whether Israel will ultimately break the deep state’s grip and restore sovereignty to the people. It is only a question of when.
Strengthen your faith in God. Great times are ahead even with the ups and downs.
Am Yisrael Chai!!!
