Peloni: When Lawfare is your only lever on power, your opponent’s every act appears as legally actionable, and as the saying goes, ‘For my friends, everything, but for my enemies, the law.” After literally decades of leaks, there seems an unhinged interest in this one leak, even as the knowledge of the head of Mosad previously leaking plans to attack Iran a decade ago are still ignored. Disingenuous alarm seems to be the new reality so long as it supports the toppling of a government willing to prosecute the war against the will of the American establishment and their Leftist allies in Jerusalem.
Prime minister calls media accusations of scandals ‘an additional front’ in the war
In a video announcement to various social media platforms, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Israeli media of organizing a “witch hunt” against his office during the middle of a war, weakening the state of Israel.
He described the media attacks as being “an additional front” in the war.
“While the government and the cabinet, under my leadership, are working tirelessly to repel our enemies who seek our destruction, working relentlessly to bring about the defeat of our enemies, while I am managing a war and repelling international attacks from different arenas, we are now facing an additional front with increasing intensity – the fake news from the media,” Netanyahu said.
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has been the focus of several recent investigations regarding improper handling of security documents, editing transcripts of official meetings, and even attempting to blackmail a senior military officer.
Netanyahu called the allegations “a wild and unbridled attack.”
Netanyahu released the video to his supporters several hours after accusations came out in Israeli media regarding his chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, who was accused of blackmailing a senior IDF officer engaged in an intimate relationship with a female staffer at the PMO, in an attempt to get the officer to edit the minutes of wartime meetings.
According to Israeli Kan 11 and Channel 13 news reports, Braverman used both internal office videos and recordings from the female staffer’s phone to blackmail the officer.
Following the report, Braverman released a statement denying the report.
“This is a lie from start to finish, whose aim is to harm me and the Prime Minister’s Office in the middle of a war,” Braverman said, using a phrase that Netanyahu would also use several times in his own statement.
Besides issuing a statement denying the report, Braverman also sent a letter to Kan, to journalist Michael Shemesh, and the network’s director general, Golan Yochpaz, demanding an apology and a retraction of the story, as well as NIS 100,000 (approximately $26,700) in damages. The letter said that Kan did not seek a statement from Braverman before reporting the story and threatened further legal action if the report was not retracted.
In his video statement on Sunday night, Netanyahu spoke about “a flood of criminal and serious leaks,” which he said had “overwhelmed the State of Israel.”
Netanyahu called it “a flood of leaks from the security cabinet, from the war cabinet at the time, a continuous tsunami of leaks from the negotiation team.”
The leaks “provide critical information to Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas – information that endangers the state, endangers our fighters, and also endangers the return of our hostages,” the premier claimed, lamenting that “zero investigations were conducted regarding all of these [leaks], zero.”
Netanyahu claimed the accusations of scandals against his government are “an organized witch hunt designed to undermine the country’s leadership and weaken us in the middle of a war.”
However, he stated that he would not be deterred.
“It won’t deter me,” he continued. “I trust my people who are working night and day for the country. I am more determined than ever to make the right decisions for the security of Israel, and I am more determined than ever to lead us to total victory.”
The prime minister has not been personally implicated in any of the recent investigations, however, political analysts believe he must have had some knowledge of the events.
@fquigley
I prefer print editions, I buy them used to save money.
I have Kindle but it’s just not the same as physically turning the pages and using sticky bookmarks..
You are presented with the three books
The prophet armed
The unarmed prophet
The prophet outcast
And then the compendium in kindle the three books in one at a mere 12.75 euros…but in kindle
Reader
The three books are by the polish biographer and Jewish biographer Isaac Deutscher who is a great writer but politically not above reproach. Long story short I was interested from point of view of people getting a clear factual foundation. Deutscher was a very great writer – a polish communist who definitely fought Stalin. Enter the author name plus prophet
@fquigley
They have been brainwashed to the depth of their souls by the POB’s divide-and-rule/-conquer technique.
Any government’s nightmare is their subjects uniting against the rulers, and the above technique has worked perfectly for thousands of years to make the subjects fight each other for any reason and at any level – from families, to government offices, to actual tribes or countries.
Plus, you have people who view politics as sports (whose team are you on?) and entertainment – most voters vote on charisma of the candidate, not on issues he claims to espouse, nor on his actual character.
BTW, I read the three books about Trotsky, thanks for the reference.
Peloni
Yes I will seek out the material. It is a while since reading it. Then see what comes out of it. Thanks.
@fquigley
I think you should begin this research given your significant interest in the subject. There is ample material to begin a series of articles on the subject, which you can submit as a potential post. What do you say?
Editors please seek out my post just posted
I am disturbed at how many people are using the words like Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, but by far mostly this word the Left, and repeatedly ad absurdum “leftists”.
It has happened on this thread of only 11 comments two times
So the idea that socialism and communism are very dirty words is being very engrained.
The bigger problem is that noone who does this or who goes along with this has obviously any understanding of history
And so become the purveyors of lies.
Since Peloni became editor with Ted they are unavoidably responsible for direction of above
A start could be made by delegation of research into the early Ukraine and the origins of “Banderaism” with involvement of CIA.
TED-
How important is this?? What can he do if is not ended by then. Not much, I think. He’s not going to step in and handicap Israel to damage their war effort. specially after the horrors of Oct 7th. They’ll consult and lay the complications out for him.
When he said, “before my inauguration” I’m sure he meant that Israel should take the most extreme measures.
It could also have been just political-speech.
He likely would speed up military supplies, a contrary attitude to Biden’s blackmail.
Gaza AND Hezballah…a huge undertaking with all else Israel has on it’s plate……
@Rafi
Not good enought. Trump has given israel til his inauguration to conquer Gaza and Hezbollah.
@Ted the IDF does NOT appear to be conquering Southern Lebanon but destroying all related military assets.
READER-
I assume you mean martial law for Gaza. a very good idea, but hard to maintain.. The IDF would enforce it of course…..Who else…….???.
Are we conquering the whole of S.Lebanon or not.
If the problem is the leak which Pollard was describing, it is obvious why everyone is writhing in hysterics about it.
I think the government MUST DECLARE MARTIAL LAW and stop the idiocy which no other country would allow in wartime.
What is going on now in Israel is suicidal (and homicidal in regard to the Diaspora Jews).
Actually, this seems to be part of the effort to make peace in the ME before Trump’s inauguration – and who is there to enforce the martial law?
This is a dire situation described in the article and the comments. We have looked at this issue before and each time, we go on with our lives.
Take, for example, the catastrophe of Oct 7, 23. There were countless reports of failures at the highest levels of the IDF, the intelligence community, the diplomatic core and, of course, the PMO.
The form of the beast is becoming steadily clearer and we can only hope that at some point in the near future, it will be disclosed and banished.
This is, essentially, the same beast or its cousin that Trump is starting to deal with in the USA. We can only hope that saner minds will prevail, because if they don’t, we will need to say Kadish.
It would fit the mold that Israel is experiencing if the CIA were involved. However, unfortunately, Mossad and associates are quite capable of orchestrating this show without outside help.
Based on all those believable rumors that we read in the media and on this site too, a lot of money went and goes into all these demonstrations on the Ayalon Highway and in Balfour St. in Jerusalem and so on. With all the internal strife, we certainly don’t need the Arabs attacking bus stops at Machane 8200 or anywhere else that opportunity provides. I still can’t figure out why 8200 was so prominently exposed since the start of the war. It used to be a well-kept secret, but that is probably part of the treasonous fight to dispose of Netanyahu.
@EvRe1. Dear Ev, I’ve repeatedly tried to post a comment described how the United States and Britain dealt with alleged traitors during World War II and how Israel is dealing with traitors in its midst at the present. But I have never succeeded in completing the comment. At some point, a strange site which has looks like a malicious code on it, which has implanted numerous copies of the same website onto my “favorites” list even though I have never added this site my favorites list myself , kept appearing on my screen of Israpundit and arased the comment I was trying to post. A mysterious dark force of some sort.
The jist of what I was trying to post is that while America sent several American citizens to prison who broadcast enemy propaganda over Axis radio station, and Britain actually put two individuals who did this, one of whom was a British citizen and the other an American citizen who had lived in Britain for many years, to death by hanging. This contrasts with how Israel has acted towards the many Israeli citizens who broadcast pro-Hamas and pro-Hezbollah and pro-Iran propaganda on the internet. Israel has done absolutely nothing to punish these traitors.
@Adam D there are other countries in which this happens. For one thing, it has happened in the US against Donald Trump. Then there are all the countries in the world where US corporate interests went into countries for the natural resources, and ran into a President who didn’t want to give up control over their resources or over the Panama Canal, for example. Those leaders were either outright assassinated or experienced character assassination. The CIA would dig up either real facts about the person and use that against the leader, or they would make up facts and use that to smear the leader. The usual tack taken was that the leader was a “communist.”
But when they began to try this on the United States,(starting in 2016 if not before) the tack taken was that Donald Trump is a fascist. It’s all the same thing: these are smear tactics that have been used by the CIA since their very beginning. If the Presidents didn’t submit to their wishes after the character attacks, the jackals would go in (CIA) and the president would be found dead. (Read Confessions of an Economic Hit Man).
These are really old tactics- nothing new. But it is extremely damaging to a country and is part of the overall plan for destabilization that the CIA has used as a prelude to destroy a legitimately elected government and then replace it with a globalist-friendly government.
The problem for the globalists is that as soon as the people realize what they are actually doing, the people get together and stand up to them. That is how Donald Trump got elected. They can be stood up to. But Israelis need to stick together on this issue, and refuse to be divided until they get rid of all those in government who are currently destructive of your right to elect the government of your choice.
Keep a list of names and what they have done that is destructive to the rights of Israelis. You will need the list to organize a campaign that targets these individuals to be charged with specific crimes, whether the crime is evidence tampering, leaking government secrets, aiding and abetting the enemy during war, i.e. treason, etc.
The people of Israel – the sane ones that is – should be preparing their “pitchforks and torches” in order to deal with “the media”.
The fact that Israel is engaging in an existential war and that the leftists are acting against him now means that they are in effect declaring war on their leader. This, in my mind is nothing less than treason, and as I said above, it should be dealt with appropriately.
Imagine what would have happened if the British press had behaved like that against Churchill…
This is yet another phoney “case”against Bibi that the leftist establishment is using to drive him from office I think there are now about eight “cases” being brought against Bibi at the same time–three criminal–the “old” charges newly revived after having lain dormant for several years-and at least five new cases” against his aide or political associates, at leasr one of whom isnow imprisoned and two others who are allegedly being subjected to “enhanced interrogation.”
A few of these alleged scandals are still in the media pre-legal stage. What they all demonstrate, however, is the relentless determination of leftist lawyers and journalists to drive a prime minister from office while he is attempting to lead a nation in time of a full-scale war. I doubt if there is any country besides Israel where this could happen