Ben Gvir meets with Israeli Police Chief to speed up creation of a “National Guard”

March 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The far-right Itamar Ben Gvir, leader of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party and current Israeli Minister of National Security, met on Tuesday with the Chief of Police, Kobi Shabtai, to speed up the creation of a “National Guard”.

According to a ministry spokesman, the new military force that Ben Gvir and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed on Monday — in exchange for paralyzing judicial reform — will be approved by the cabinet next Sunday, reported the newspaper ‘The Jerusalem Post’.

Its focus of action will be the fight against criminal organizations, especially in mixed companies, in reference to sources of conflict between Arabs and Israelis. Both Ben Gvir and Shabtai have agreed to establish a framework agreement with the aim of getting the body up and running as soon as possible.

The creation of a National Guard, defended by Ben Gvir for months, means reinforcing the existing border Police forces with the creation of a body independent of the police authority that is subject to the Ministry of National Security, that is, under its command. straight.

Former Israel police chief Moshe Karadi has warned that this National Guard will become Ben Gvir’s “private militia” to satisfy his “political needs”, even going so far as to recruit extremists from the Youth of the Hills — settlers to favor of settlements in the West Bank– among their ranks.

Apart from the creation of this military force, the Likud party has appointed four people to carry out the judicial reform review dialogue within the coalition, talks that will also be attended by the opposition Yesh Atid parties and National Unity.

The meeting will take place at the residence of the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, who has advocated a dialogue process after the dismissal of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who spoke out against the reform.

The stoppage of the measure after the agreement reached between Ben Gvir and Netanyahu has not appeased the concerns of the protesters, who have once again taken to the streets in Tel Aviv fearing that the measure will only be postponed until the summer and will not be discarded, reported the newspaper ‘The Times of Israel’.