Israeli Air Force Reservist Pilots Refuse to Train in Protest of Judicial Reform

July 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Several Israeli Air Force reserve pilots have informed the commander of this branch of the Army, General Tomer Bar, that they will not take part in next week’s training maneuvers in protest against the controversial judicial reform he is promoting. the Israeli government.

According to sources from Israeli radio station Kan, the Israeli Air Force understands that this initiative is part of a group of individual pilots and does not represent any group, and they also assure that this decision will not affect the operational capacity of the body.

One of the signatories, Colonel Nof Erez, has decided to appear in public to defend his decision: “I am not going to volunteer to help a dictatorship”, he declared in relation to a reform rejected by his critics as an attack on the separation of powers in the country, by granting the government unusual powers over judicial decisions.

Last Sunday, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, launched a harsh public criticism of the country’s attorney general, Gali Baharav-Miara, whom he accused of standing idly by in the face of the protests of the population, and specifically those carried out by the reservists.

Netanyahu repudiated the “complete inaction” that, in his opinion, Baharav-Miara has exhibited when responding to the protests. “You have done absolutely nothing to stop those who incite disobedience and those who promote sedition among the Israel Defense Forces,” he snapped. “We are facing a threat to national security,” he stressed.