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Overlooked Weapon Vs. Gaza the Motives for Murder You Supported A Haaretz | Wednesday, January 11, 2017 5 HAARETZ Amira Hass What Editor: Aluf Benn Overlooked English Edition number Editor: Noa Landau is next? Managing Editor: Simon Spungin weapon vs. Gaza Deputy Publisher: Guy Rolnik Managing Director, Haaretz Group Rami Guez aheed al-Bursh, a and that he wasn’t the one Managing Director, English Edition contractor with the who decided. Then an official Aviva Bronstein W UN Development request came from the minis- Program, will be returning try in Ramallah to the UN De- Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. to his home in the Gaza Strip velopment Program to move 21 Schocken St.,Tel Aviv 61350 Israel. Yediot Ahronot tomorrow, seven months rubble to the fishing port in Tel: 03-5121212 Fax: 03-6810012 after he was arrested at the northern Gaza, to prevent a Customer Service Tel: 03-5121750 Fax: 03-5121703 Erez checkpoint. This is a retreat of the shoreline. E-mail: [email protected]. Advertising: 03-5121774, 03-5121112 Letters to the editor: [email protected] or fax: 03-5121156 failure for the Shin Bet se- Bursh moved about 300 curity service, which tried tons, which a year later, just to frame him with a series before his arrest in July 2016, of charges involving aid to had still been heaped along Hamas over the years. the road. He didn’t know that It’s also an embarrass- Hamas intended to close that ment for the prosecution, part of the beach. which got out of the corner Like many officials in into which the Shin Bet had Gaza ministries, the Public No choice but to painted it and reached a plea Works Ministry officials bargain with Bursh’s attor- who approached Bursh were ney, Lea Tsemel. And it’s a Hamas men, and known indict Eran Wolkowski | [email protected] hushed reminder how the members of Hamas’ mili- Israeli media, which in Au- tary wing. Bursh was con- gust happily published false victed of failing to report to “Prime Minister Netanyahu has no, and has never had, reports based on distorted in- his superiors that these were any connection of control or an organizational relationship Zvi Bar’el formation, convicted Bursh the two who approached of any kind with Israel Hayom … that would constitute in- without trial as a terrorist or him, “closing his eyes to the fluence over the paper’s editorial judgment or its content, Hamas activist who had infil- service this renders to the or on its establishment, founding or ongoing management.” trated the UN agency. Hamas military wing,” as That’s the affidavit that was submitted by Likud campaign Interrogations by the Shin Mishnayot wrote. chairman Shlomo Filber – now Communications Ministry Embracing Eisenkot Bet over 17 days, interroga- The judge, a former presi- director-general – in response to a petition filed in 2015 tions by the police, four or dent of the military court of with the Central Elections Committee asking it to forbid five days in a prison cell with appeals and a resident of the Israel Hayom from publishing election propaganda to pro- o the guild signed a signers of the state’s values Netanyahu and his morals, and wonder why they need snitches, collaborators mas- settlement of Efrat, should mote Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s candidacy. petition. Fifty-five re- and everyone else; between and is careful to make sure to give any accounting to querading as security prison- also have written that the Given the recent reports about a meeting between Ne- S serve battalion com- those who bask in the title that the two don’t mix. a panel of military judges ers – none of that could prove Development Program and tanyahu and Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes manders published a letter of “most moral army in the But then we had this en- who “never engaged in the verdict rendered by the other UN agencies are do- after the last Knesset was dissolved and their discussions last Thursday in which they world” and the rest of the listment of top brass in his combat” and never saw Shin Bet and the media. ing a great service for Israel. about a deal to curb Israel Hayom in return for favorable called to “strengthen the public, which isn’t particu- defense, marking a danger- Hebron up close. From accusations of “con- Under the impossible con- coverage of Netanyahu by Yedioth Ahronoth, it seems that Israel Defense Forces, its larly moral. Between the ous line within the army Aren’t those senior of- tact with a foreign agent,” ditions of prohibitions and the affidavit was inaccurate. Moreover, there is no other commanders and the chief elites whose decorations os- itself – the line that sepa- ficers building a human “providing services to an ille- restrictions that Israel has way to interpret the negotiations between the two as any- of staff at its helm, who tensibly give them the right rates the military guild barrier around the chief gal organization” and “use of imposed, these agencies are thing other than bargaining between the publishers of two constitute the protective to determine what’s moral from “the army of Elor of staff the same ones who terrorist property,” the pros- preventing an even worse hu- newspapers – except that one of them was also communica- wall of the State of Israel and what’s not, and the mor- Azaria.” Between the sec- issued orders whose pro- ecution retreated to a single manitarian disaster in Gaza. tions minister and prime minister. and Israeli society.” After al trash pile that makes up ond generation of occupi- priety is questionable? Did charge: the second one. Last Israel has designated More details casting a heavy pall on Netanyahu’s abil- them, five former chiefs of the government and to their ers – Eisenkot was 7 years they not turn a blind eye as Wednesday, Bursh was con- Hamas an illegal organiza- ity to remain in his position emerged yesterday. Accord- staff gathered at Yedioth great horror is in charge of old during the Six-Day hundreds of Palestinians victed of that charge. tion. In Gaza, Hamas is the ing to the reports, Mozes promised to do everything to Ahronoth headquarters the military. War, while former Chief of were killed from “shoot- Be’er Sheva District Court de facto government, which assure that Netanyahu would continue as prime minister for a friendly chat, a group And it is here that the ing into the air” or rubber- Judge Aharon Mishnayot must also provide services for as long as he wanted, including positive coverage photo, and to express their appalling paradox lies. Be- tipped bullets, or when said it was a serious charge, to the public, and does so. and the hiring of journalists of Netanyahu’s choosing. unreserved support for cause the ones who have children who pulled scis- and so did the representative Activists in Hamas’ civilian Netanyahu promised in return to advance a bill that Chief of Staff Gadi Eisen- bestowed upon the army Generals concerned sors or kitchen knives out of the prosecution’s southern and military wings have would prohibit the free distribution of Israel Hayom kot. What suddenly set the aura of moral supe- with morality can’t of their schoolbags were district, Shuli Rothschild, been placed in various pub- after the March 2015 elections. them off? riority that the battalion shot to death? Now those They had to say this in order lic-sector positions. As more details are uncovered, it becomes even clear- The members of the club commanders bask in are close their eyes to same officers purport to to justify the hullabaloo that Bursh had every reason to er why Netanyahu insisted on retaining the communica- were apparently spooked the members of that very defend not just Israeli se- preceded the trial. But the assume that the men who ap- tions portfolio and made all his coalition partners sign a by the La Familia gang, same government, which the hazard that is curity, but Israeli society, sentence, time served, says proached him did so in their commitment to support any bill he would submit relating which at a rally in honor is subordinate to an (alleg- the government. as their letter puts it. the opposite: It isn’t serious. capacity as employees of the to the media. More than anything, Netanyahu seems to of Israeli hero Elor Azaria edly) corrupt manipulator. He who appoints himself So what was it about? One Public Works Ministry. He be afraid of how he is portrayed, and he wants to control chanted “Gadi, Gadi be The second paradox is that to defend Israeli society role of the UN Development referred them to the official those elements responsible for how he is covered. The careful, Rabin’s looking the IDF, that is, the chief of Staff Benny Gantz was 8 and bear the colors of the Program is to remove and channels – which Israel moni- enormous power he wields serves as a bargaining chip for a friend” (it rhymes staff, is actually trying to – and the Generation Y oc- most moral army in the sort the rubble created by tors. This cost him the disrup- when dealing with media outlets. in Hebrew). The gesture pull out of this moralistic cupiers. This is the fourth world cannot do so from the Israel’s bombing of Gaza in tion of his life, seven months Netanyahu’s comprehensive control of the media is by the General Staff fra- embrace. generation, which doesn’t safe cage of some generals’ the summer of 2014. Bursh in prison, harsh interroga- destructive; he exploits crises in commercial television ternity has already faded, Eisenkot knows that re- even know where the State fellowship, as if they are was responsible for mov- tions, damage to his health, to trample on the independence of its franchisees; he displaced as it’s been by ceiving any morality award of Israel’s borders are any- some rare species loftily ing this crushed debris to separation from his family has seized control of the Israel Broadcasting Authority more important things – from this prime minister more; a generation that’s perched above those who locales determined by the and concern for his profes- and has been doing all he can to delay the launch of the but it ought to cause alarm, is in itself immoral.
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