In order to become a "recognized information security source," one does not apparently need to pass an intelligence test. This is the only way to grasp the admission of an unidentified security source by which the army accepts and acknowledges the 'fact' that over 70,000 Palestinians were killed in the course of the war in Gaza.
Throughout the entire course of the war, Israel categorically denied the numbers which the 'Health Ministry' of Hamas reported regarding the number of fatalities. These figures were altogether exaggerated, blown up and totally lacking realism, and the Israeli information system — faulty, it must be admitted — towards the outside world, gave no credence to those statistics whatsoever. And then, one morning, altogether unexpectedly, that same security source, admitted that Israel had been lying all along and that the Hamas figures were indeed correct.
No need to note that within a few hours, this admission was corrected and the army stated that those figures were not the true ones. But this was too little and a bit too late because by then, all the major media systems in the world had already publicized the Israeli admission that tens of thousands of Palestinian citizens had been killed during the course of the war. To such idiocy there seems to be no limit, both in the local security system, but this is sometimes revealed only after those top officials become politicians, but sometimes, 'way before that!'
The High Court is Grabbing New Powers
In a few weeks, the High Court will deal with the appeal to remove Minister Ben Gvir from his post under the "charge" that he is meddling with the powers of the police. It is necessary to note that the law prohibits a minister to serve if any charge has been filed against him, be it criminal, civil or of any kind, but in this case there is nothing of the sort, or, as the jargon calls it, gornisht.
But to those who are antipathetic towards the minister, it makes no difference since they have decided that the place to deal with his continued tenure is not through the polls but via the court. In a normal, civilized country, those petitioners would be cast bodily down the stairs, or to be more exact, they wouldn't even have reached the top of that flight of steps but thrown down on the way to them. But in a country where the judiciary rules on every topic and issue, the court allows itself to sit on such a fabricated, illegal appeal.
Judge Yitzhak Amit, sitting at the head of the judicial system, did not even think twice before, once again, he 'engineered' the roster of judges to form an activist panel to sit on that appeal. According to the generally accepted norm, Judge David Mintz, considered conservative, was expected to be on the panel, but Amit decided to replace him with Judge Groskopf, regarded as an activist, creating a majority of four judges considered liberal, against one conservative judge. A journalist from Ha'aretz wrote that the day set for the hearing is his birthday, and the judicial columnist of that paper wrote in reply that "I have a feeling that you will be getting a fine gift."
The feeling of those correspondents is that the court will put an end to the minister's tenure and demand the prime minister dismiss him.
If a bit of good sense still remains in Judge Amit's head, and the pride in his post has not altogether addled his good sense, the court will dismiss the appeal, for if not, we can await a legal crisis, the like of which has never yet surfaced. There is no way in which the prime minister will obey the directive of the High Court to dismiss a minister without any charge against him anchored in law.
The government will announce its refusal to obey and what will the High Court do then? Demand that the Knesset be dispersed? Or that it depose the prime minister? Or it will appoint Attorney Shraga from the "Movement for the Quality of the Government" as deputy prime minister?
