T. Belman. The AG’s position is untenable. She claims,
“The law enforcement system is obliged to exercise its powers in a professional and independent manner. This independence is a central guarantee of the preservation of human rights,”
It is up to the Cabinet, not the IDF, to decide to go to war. Similarly, it should be up to the Cabinet to decide whether law enforcement should be more aggressive or not. After all, the government was elected not the police. Whether to go to war or to fight terror or illegal protests are policy decisions. It should not be the police to decide how tough to be or whether to allow Jews to pray on the Temple Mount.
The AG has refused to answer questions “on the grounds that several ministers have a personal interest in how law enforcement responds to the ongoing protests.” We all have such a “personal interest”. The left wants both the High Court and the police to be the decision makers, not the government.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced that he would boycott the cabinet meeting with Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, calling it a “waste of time.”
Bharav-Miara will be asked to provide answers to questions regarding accusations of selective enforcement against protestors according to which the current anti-government protests are given a softer response than previous right-wing or Ethiopian protests have been treated.
The Finance Minister’s decision comes as Baharav-Miara stated that she would not delve into specific cases during the meeting on the grounds that several ministers have a personal interest in how law enforcement responds to the ongoing protests. She even criticized the government for holding the discussion at all.
“Especially during a protest against the policies of the government and its policies, the government must be extremely careful to avoid actions that could be interpreted as an attempt to illegitimately influence the professional judgment of law enforcement officials,” the attorney general wrote in a letter to Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fox on Thursday.
“The law enforcement system is obliged to exercise its powers in a professional and independent manner. This independence is a central guarantee of the preservation of human rights,”
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