March 19 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Israeli Minister of National Security, the far-right Itamar Ben Gvir, has described as a “coup d’état” the latest ruling of the Israeli Supreme Court which considers that the minister does not have the competence to give orders to the Police on the tactics to be used in the demonstrations of the opposition and to clear the highways that the activists habitually block.
“The decision that the minister can only decide the general operation without any operational capacity to apply it is not only unprecedented, but it is a coup in the full sense of the expression,” Ben Gvir said in statements to the press. collected by ‘The Times of Israel’.
With this decision, “the prime minister and government ministers are reduced to mere ornaments.” “The minister can say what he thinks should be done, but he cannot enforce or guarantee that what he says is applied. According to him, ministers are mere academic researchers who can submit general briefs, but nothing more,” he said. pointed.
Ben Gvir has visited Police command centers during the protests and has given specific orders on the police response to the protests, but now the Supreme Court has upheld a lawsuit by the Movement for the Quality of Government in Israel that denounced a Police politicization.
“The minister is not allowed to give operational orders on how to apply his policy, the manner in which force is used or the manner in which force is used or crowd dispersal methods, conditions on time, place or way in which an incident is handled or similar orders,” Judge Isaac Amit explained in his opinion.
Therefore, the minister must “refrain from giving operational orders to the Police, directly or indirectly.” “The criteria for the use of force are set by the commanders who are in place,” while the minister “has the power to give general lines and principles,” he has stressed.
NETANYAHU DENOUNCES “ANARCHY”
Previously, Prime Minister Netanyahu has warned that the protesters aspire to implant “anarchy” with the mobilizations against the judicial reform. “We are not going to accept anarchy,” he pointed out.
The Israeli leader has taken advantage of the weekly Council of Ministers to implicitly link these protests with the Iranian nuclear program or Palestinian terrorism. “They are our three fights,” he declared.
Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of the main cities of the country every Saturday for eleven consecutive weeks to protest against the judicial reform because they consider that it grants absolute control of the Judiciary to the Government.
