Israel’s Deep State.
[IsraelTimes] Security agency will not ‘become a secret police,’ Ronen Bar said to have told ministers Levin, Ben Gvir, who accused him and other officials of ‘selective enforcement’National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Justice Minister Yariv Levin have reportedly demanded that the Shin Bet use its tools against activists in anti-government protests and were refused by the security agency’s chief Ronen Bar, who said it would "not become a secret police."
According to a report published by the Haaretz newspaper on Thursday, Bar made the comment at a recent meeting that was also attended by Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, State Prosecutor Amit Aisman, and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai. Bar reportedly responded to the ministers’ demand by saying it was the police’s job to maintain public order.
Throughout the meeting, Haaretz said, the ministers berated the law enforcement officials for "selective enforcement" in favor of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s detractors.
Demonstrations against Netanyahu have roiled Israel since 2020, when protesters began demanding he resign over corruption allegations. The protests intensified in 2023 after Netanyahu’s current government presented its plan to overhaul the judiciary.
The protests were somewhat muted after the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
war began on October 7, when thousands of Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...-led forces of Evil stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people and take 252 hostages. In recent months, however, anti-government protests have resumed — often in conjunction with protests in favor of a truce-hostage deal — calling for new elections due to the government’s failure to forestall the shock assault.
An official who was present at the meeting was quoted as saying, "In internal meetings, they express an expectation that the Shin Bet use its tools against parts of the protest [movement]... They want to turn it into a thought police."
The article also quoted a bigwig as saying that Bar has been strongly advised, by his predecessors among others, not to resign from his post over the failings of October 7 until after the prime minister has left his role, "for fear that Netanyahu will appoint a collaborator instead."