Q&A: Reasonable Suspicions?
Reasonable Suspicions?
Question
I heard the former Deputy Chief of Staff [now in politics, Yair Golan] claim that the defendant charged with bribery, fraud, and breach of trust led [perhaps only through passive omission] toward confrontation and danger for the people, both from Gaza and from the Arabs among us, in order to save his seat.
For example, by allowing Lehava to reach Damascus Gate with riots, and Ben Gvir in Sheikh Jarrah, and several other things like that which certainly, or almost certainly, would inflame the situation, and thus his seat would be saved. Is there anything to this?
At first I doubted it, but suddenly I see a report on Arutz 7 that senior Likud figures are saying a ceasefire can be reached, and it isn’t being finalized because Bibi is dragging things out in order to save his seat.
He is also endangering us internationally, and also endangering the people through the continuing harm, and the soldiers, and people in shelters are suffering, and the economy and tourism, etc. — everything in order to save his seat…
I also suspect that at the beginning of the riots in Lod and in other places, he didn’t stop them immediately with a heavy hand and an outstretched arm because, on the contrary, he wanted to increase the chaos and action [at worst a few will die and the State of Israel and cooperation between the citizens will be severely damaged, perhaps for many years] in order to save his seat…
In short, conduct that is endangering all of us at every moment in an attempt to extricate himself from his trial and from prison.
Does the honorable Rabbi think this is a reasonable suspicion?
Answer
Anything is possible. My inclination is that he did not do everything out of personal considerations, but in the details and in the conduct, that could definitely be part of the picture.
I wasn’t referring to Yair Golan himself, who is a world-class idiot. But the arguments should be addressed on their merits.