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Minister to High Court: AG must explain why road-blocking protesters are not charged

2023-08-04

Just like in America, suborning the top prosecutor to protect the protected class.

[IsraelTimes] Far-right politician Yitzhak Wasserlauf seeks court order instructing Baharav-Miara to explain her ’selective enforcement,’ and accuses her of ’shirking her duties’

National Resilience Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf petitioned the High Court of Justice on Thursday, seeking for it to order the attorney general to explain why charges are not being filed against anti-government demonstrators who block roads.

Wasserlauf, a member of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, accused Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara of "selective enforcement" against protesters, telling the court that "she shirks her duties and abandons the public in the face of violence from systematic criminality."

The attorney general, the politician wrote, "clearly employs selective enforcement, and in her conduct abandons the public to violence and criminal acts."

Months of weekly mass protests against the judicial overhaul plan have seen demonstrators block major highways, including the Ayalon Highway through Tel Aviv, as well as access roads to Ben Gurion Airport. On several occasions, organizers have specified ahead of the event that the intention is to clog roads.

In the petition, Wasserlauf said his previous appeals to the attorney general about the matter were not met with a reasonable response and there was no longer any option other than judicial intervention regarding law enforcement against anti-overhaul protests.

Wasserlauf asked that Baharav-Miara be ordered to explain why she has not instructed that protest leaders, as well as those arrested while blocking roads, be indicted. Right-wing politicians have repeatedly accused law enforcement officials of utilizing a double standard against the current mass protest movement, compared to past demonstrations by Haredim, Æthiopian-Israelis or settlers.

At a stormy cabinet meeting last month, Baharav-Miara was repeatedly castigated by ministers, including several who said she should be ousted from her job over allegations of selective enforcement. The attorney general said at the time that "I hope that the government is not expecting the law enforcement system to fill quotas for arrests or indictments against protesters."

Baharav-Miara and other bigwigs in the Justice Ministry were summoned to the meeting to discuss how law enforcement agencies have dealt with the massive wave of protests against the government’s efforts to overhaul the judiciary, including blocking highways and other forms of civil disobedience. At the time, a Justice Ministry official said six protesters had so far been indicted, a figure derided by coalition members.

In a statement to the media on Thursday, Wasserlauf vowed to "not rest nor remain silent in the face of the selective enforcement" and warned that the prosecution’s behavior "could lead to the collapse of the rule of law and crushing public trust in the enforcement systems."

He compared the situation today to right-wing protests against Israel’s 2005 unilateral disengagement from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, a point of reference that is often cited by government supporters demanding firmer action against the current protests.

"The prosecutor’s office, which during the Disengagement period acted like a fearsome tiger and filed hundreds of indictments for road blockers with lightning proceedings... has become a sleepy cat when it comes to a protest against the [judicial] reform, and does not make an effort to produce even the semblance of any enforcement against the handful of lawbreakers who are creating chaos on the streets of Israel," Wasserlauf said.

While coalition members have lamented weak enforcement against demonstrations, protesters have complained of excessive police violence during festivities. On Wednesday, the Justice Ministry’s Police Internal Investigations Department questioned five officers accused of beating protesters as they cleared the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv last month.

Posted by:trailing wife

#3 Times of Israel is a Leftist rag, isn't it?

Not like Ha’aretz, EMS Artifact, which is elite Socialist. More standard educated journalist center-left, with the elite disdain for that turncoat Bibi Netanyahu, who betrayed his class. Bibi, after all, is a child of academic, and worked with and is a dear friend of Mitt Romney, yet he turned to President Trump for political partnership abroad, and to Orthodox Jewish political parties at home.

Posted by: trailing wife 2023-08-04 22:52

#2 BLM protesters, there?

Posted by: Skidmark 2023-08-04 20:07

#1 Wasserhauf is "Far Right," but Baharav-Miara isn't "Far Left?"

Times of Israel is a Leftist rag, isn't it?

Posted by: EMS Artifact 2023-08-04 11:35

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