Here's what really matters:
Activism. In the name of God, bring in someone who takes the initiative and doesn't just react, someone like Aharon Barak, who reads a story in the newspaper about some mysterious dollar account and immediately calls the police commissioner and asks to open an investigation. Without discussions, without consultations, without inventing 'inspection' procedures that precede the investigation, without postponing it until after the elections and without texting it for two years.
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Look for someone like Manny Mazuz who finishes a meeting with President Katsav, who explicitly tells him - 'I am not filing a complaint' and immediately decides to open a criminal investigation.
5 attempts to set fire to Palestinian homes have happened in the last year and a half. None of them are solved until they succeed. When you are so passive, like the current advisor, then Jewish terrorists are running wild here like crazy, burning churches and mosques, burning children and setting houses on fire, while the advisor stands by and does not provide any new tools for the police to deal with this madness.
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Besides activism, it would be very nice if someone with a stronger backbone returned to the advisor's office, at least in everything related to the political echelon.
Just read the rulings on the Drainoff Houses in Beit El (Grunis wrote the main one…). Under Netanyahu’s political pressure, the advisor simply led the state’s position to places where no attorney’s foot has ever set foot.
The state initially said – of course we should demolish the houses. This is private land. Then it said – yes, it’s true that we didn’t demolish. But that’s not because we don’t think demolition is necessary. It is necessary. We just have priorities and it’s not urgent. Of course, along the way, they committed to demolition dates and of course they didn’t meet them, and paid expenses again and again and again, and then Weinstein did a flip-flop and suddenly came to court with a new position – there’s no need to demolish. It can be legalized.
The court threw him down all the stairs, but the stressed-out lawyer did not flinch. He continued to support the sleepy petitions of the settlers who said – maybe after all, here we are, here we are, hurry up, even in the last crazy petition the state supported, while all the lawyers secretly beg for Judge Naor to give them a slap in the face.
And if we're fantasizing, then it would be nice to have a legal advisor who understands the new world, who understands that you can't single-handedly give an opinion that obliges all ministers to publish their schedules (to be precise, the opinion was written by a lower echelon and before the advisor's term, but during this advisor's term it became an important norm) and oppose the submission of your own schedule.
It's fine when they demand it from the Minister of Defense (published) and the Minister of Justice, but from Weinstein? The schedule may yet reveal that the advisor isn't working all that hard and that it's truly a state secret.
At the end of Operation Protective Edge, Weinstein was stunned when he allowed the prime minister to reach a ceasefire agreement without convening the cabinet and obtaining its consent.
Could there be reasons to justify this? Sure, but this should be a written, reasoned opinion that touches on the core of our system of government.
Months later, it turned out that it was not given in writing at all. So what do the gas plan team want, if the Joint Chiefs of Staff make decisions regarding the end of hostilities verbally and without documentation?
Yes, distinguished members of the committee. One line runs through all the events of the past week. A passive advisor, who succumbs too easily to pressure from the political echelon and does so precisely when the Attorney General's position is stronger than ever.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin saw no problem in talking to Attorney General Barak about sensitive investigations of senior public figures. The Director General of the Prime Minister's Office, Shimon Shaves, felt comfortable telling Attorney General Harish to change the investigation team in the Deri affair.
Today, Weinstein himself will tell you that in dozens and hundreds of hours of meetings, the Prime Minister did not dare to ask him about the Yvette Lieberman case, not even in a hint.
If you just choose the right person, independent and active, he can lead dramatic change in so many areas, certainly in the fight against Jewish terrorism.
The article was published in "Haaretz." From Raviv Drucker's blog: drucker10.net
