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20.02.2023

The key to saving Israel from dictatorship is in the hands of Shas

The party of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who believed in peace, cooperates with the modern zealots: the rabbi's house reveals agreements that Deri broke on his way to sole power in the party, which may in the future therefore be complicit in war crimes

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A senior source in the Shas of the late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, and one of the confidants of his household closest to him, a source who was the rabbi's personal emissary for special missions, for example when the source was sent by the rabbi to meet secretly in Mukta with Abu Mazen, told us this week about two agreements that Deri broke with the trustees of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's house: an agreement was made between Aryeh Deri and the rabbi's trustees regarding the Shas college, in which Deri pledged that the college would not be closed. But the college was closed. According to the source, it was closed as part of Deri's fear of the Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox, but it is possible that such political behavior on the part of Shas is also related to the nature of the arena of academic studies: a college, and in general, any academic institution, is a source of unrest and opposition to a single political government, is a focus for curiosity and deliberation , women and men, gays, lesbians and straights study there, exchange opinions freely, and hold political coalitions there freely, and this routine court-academic behavior could pose a challenge to a party that is dominated by a single political government. in which all the other political present in it except deri are statists without any independent governing force in the party.

It is true that devout religious institutions differ in the acquisition of education from secular institutions in the behavior of the students, but Shas is not an exclusively ultra-Orthodox party unlike the ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi parties, and many of its supporters are traditional and clearly non-Orthodox, from which students at the Shas college came; Their being, as mentioned, is not distinctly religious; In this public, secular views of freedoms are prevalent and exist and are deeply rooted in its being. This culture of equal freedoms and pluralism was also present among the founders of the college, and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, although he knew that a non-religious culture could seep into being at the college, approved its establishment, believing that religious fundamental rules would be maintained by both the faculty and the students. Rabbi Ovadia knew his public, and recognized it, and its uniqueness.

The second agreement that Deri broke with the rabbi's associates, according to the source, is the establishment of the Shas Women's Council, and in this case as well, the source said that the first reason for this is Deri's desire to avoid a rift with the ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazim, but here again our assessment is that a women's council might have demanded the expansion of the leadership and their inclusion in it, in contrast to Deri's political sole rule in Shas.

The source told about Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's insistence on speaking about his longing for true peace, when Eli Yishai asked him on one occasion to moderate his statements about peace and compromise, which take on political meaning and are not always at the right time, but the rabbi replied to him according to the source, I am for peace, and we must strive for reconciliation Peace between Israel and the Palestinians and I will continue to say so. This view of the founder of the movement, which was once no stranger to Aryeh Deri, has disappeared from the Shas of the current Aryeh Deri, whose association with the modern fanatics, whose political behavior in the West Bank could bring charges of war crimes against Israel, if the Civil Administration is indeed transferred to Minister Smotritz ', may result in the fact that even the moderate Shas in its existence as mentioned, will be considered complicit in war crimes.

 

And here it should be said that the illusions as if there will be a compromise regarding the coup of the form of the regime, are unfounded delusions of Israelis who do not know the cruel cynicism of the political arena in Israel. This arena maintains compromises based on valid political power, and based on political levers of pressure, only; The hope of the president, for example, that a voluntary compromise will take place out of good citizenship and due to the pressure of demonstrations, is in our estimation a false hope. A compromise can take place in the following ways: if the president exercises his little political power, or if the court rejects the coup's legislation outright (or declares Netanyahu impeachable), or if an amnesty is granted in exchange for stopping the coup in an agreement with Netanyahu, or if an amnesty is granted in an agreement with Deri. Since the president, most likely at the moment, will not exercise political power, within his few powers (but may exercise the power of pardon which is in his hands), and since a legal ruling that would stop the coup in the form of the regime could lead to a civil conflict (and certainly a decision on Netanyahu's impeachment), and since Now that Netanyahu is accused of serious crimes that the public is interested in knowing to what extent they are based on evidence, almost the only possibility remains and that is to reach an amnesty deal with Aryeh Deri: the president will pardon him in the special framework of the current compromise discussions, and in return Deri will completely stop the legislation of the coup of the form of the regime, And in addition to that, a date will be set between the parties for the end of Aryeh Deri's political career in the Israeli government permanently (after he returns to it following the agreement for a fixed period).

Avraham Ya'akov, our legal commentator, vice president of the Central District in the past: amnesty only in exchange for parting

Without analyzing in depth, the set of proposals that appear in this week's opening article, I will only point out that a full amnesty, as proposed here, will be granted only in exchange for removing the accused and the criminal from public life. Unlike the plea deal with Deri, this time this commitment should be clear and unequivocal.

If amnesty is not conditioned on removing Netanyahu and Deri from public life, it will be a reward for the perpetrators of injustice and conclusive proof that through political power it is possible to evade justice. But the law is equal for all, and political power does not have a dominant position in the court or any advantage over others in the law.

There is a precedent for a full amnesty which did not go well. It was the father of the current president who granted a full amnesty to the members of the Shin Bet even before an indictment was filed.

At that time, no one granted the amnesty by removing them from public life because the candidates for amnesty were not politicians. But later one of them was elected to the Knesset. It was Ehud Yatom and he was elected on the Likud list. From this error, we can learn that any way back to political/public life must be closed in front of the people who received amnesty for offenses of deep public significance, in significant public processes.