MK Moshe Saada: "The legal system persecutes people, hunts them, abuses them""

December 16, 2024   

MK Moshe Saada of the Likud addressed today (Monday), in an interview he gave to 103FM, the calls and discussions for the impeachment of the Attorney General, Gali Baharav Meyara. "The attorney general should be impeached because she does not prosecute others," said the MK. "The former state attorney only yesterday and the day before called for incitement, evasion, and in fact abandoned all our soldiers, told the pilots, 'Don't go up, don't touch the Golan Heights, Givati, paratroopers, Nahal' - and that these people who are the backbone of our country will truly be abandoned on the battlefield. "When there is such a statement from a member of the prosecution, a law enforcement officer who becomes a lawbreaker for a serious offense, punishable by 15 years in prison, I expect Gali to say something, that will be a moral statement." Regarding Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef's statement that 'even a bum doesn't have to enlist' - he claimed: "The former Chief Rabbi of Israel later retracted his statement and said that he didn't mean it. Anyone who stands his ground and says 'I call for refusal' and incites evasion, I call for him to be investigated, and it doesn't matter if he is a cleric or not, if he is the state attorney or not - and I expect the attorney general to say something, but there is no voice and no answer, the sound of a thin silence. This conduct is improper, it is selective enforcement." He later objected to Minister Dudi Amsalem's call to prosecute the attorney general: "I don't think she should be prosecuted. I think the correct way is the legal procedure. The legal procedure is impeachment, and Yariv Levin is already starting the process - they bring a decision to the government, the government approves it, they turn to the search committee that appointed her... Justice Shamgar, the former president of the Supreme Court, established a definition for when an attorney general is impeached. He didn't write that she had to be a criminal, he wrote that if there are fundamental differences of opinion between the government and the attorney general - that is grounds for dismissal, so he also determined how to do it." Saada added: "A government that thinks there is such a ground, it doesn't do it on its own, it turns to the committee that appointed it, in this case it is Judge Grunis and it is supposed to convene. The Minister of Justice will present evidence of the fundamental differences of opinion, a kind of hearing will be held for her, and then the committee will make a recommendation, and it will recommend its position if there really are fundamental differences of opinion, and then the next step is for the government to approve the committee's recommendation and she is dismissed.". ""The Legal Advisor to the Government does not enforce the law in the State of Israel"" According to him, "The Attorney General does not enforce the law in the State of Israel, allows selective enforcement, she has no moral statement when the former state attorney calls for refusal, and also when the chief rabbi calls for refusal, she has no moral statement, no action, and from this place we think she is not suitable, she is not worthy, beyond that, she does not pursue justice. "I think that the legal system, which is supposed to be a system that pursues justice, has long since deviated from its course. Instead of pursuing justice, it pursues people, hunts, abuses. If the legal system is no longer pursuing justice and does not try to create justice, then all hell breaks loose and there is no resurrection for the rule of law. I think this is the place where it is our duty to stabilize the judicial system, because the public wants a judicial system that brings a fair trial and we don't have one, so we need to change and replace it, and that is our job." Regarding the confrontation between Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Acting Supreme Court President Yitzhak Amit, he said: "Anyone who talks about a legal coup is talking about something imaginary. There is no such thing. What is happening right now, the main dispute is between Justice Amit and Minister Levin regarding the committee for selecting judges, and we need to understand - Justice Amit says, 'Appoint me to the Supreme Court, I want to appoint the liberal judges,' and that is fine, 'but I also want to decide for you, Minister Yariv Levin, which conservative judges you will appoint.' "It is true that in choosing a president and a supreme court judge, there will be a mutual veto right, so that we reach compromises and not wars, and this is what Minister Yariv Levin is trying to promote. I expect both of them to take responsibility, to understand the magnitude of the hour, to understand that unity is an existential necessity, to sit wherever they want until white smoke comes out. I estimate that this will happen by January 15.".