The three ladies entered a church in Israel and dropped flyers calling for the transfer of captives from Gaza. Before being released, they were detained by police, cuffed, and accused of trespass.
A year before, a 27-year-old girl was locked up for 24 hours after being accused of throwing dust at Israel’s federal safety minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, during an unexpected rally at a beachfront in Tel Aviv. At the confinement facility where she was being held, activists gathered.
In different periods, the incidents past fortnight might not have resonated. They also sparked a growing outcry in Israel over what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s friends call a worrying trend: a state that is currently waging a wider war against Islamic extremists supported by Iran.
Ben Gvir, a resident in the West Bank, who helps set the intellectual voice and has played a significant role in prolonging the year-old fight in Gaza, which has strained relations between Israel and its eastern supporters, is at the center of it. He claimed that Israel may halt Hezbollah following its failure to launch ground forces into Lebanon, which retaliated with a barrage of missiles launched from Iran.
Ben Gvir was at the vanguard of the criminal reform that greatly divided Israel and sparked widespread rallies before the battle started a year ago, along with financing secretary Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right political intervals.
They are now important eagles who oppose any peace agreement reached in Gaza until the Hamas radical party is defeated, calling on Israel to regain its hold on the West Bank, and enshrine its position of authority.
As security captain, Ben Gvir made it easier for Israelis to receive weapons, made it easier for Israeli prisoners, and replaced senior law enforcement officials with allies to bolster the government’s power.
He has also advocated for the right of Jewish settlers in occupied areas and has pushed for the Israeli government to outlaw Jews from praying on the Temple Mount, which has been done since 1967.
In a subsequent interview with Bloomberg, Ben Gvir stated that” Prison in Israel were a summer camp — I changed that and I’m glad of it.” He also mentioned a trip to the site of a terrorist attack where the attacker was shot by a person. He said to me,” I got my weapon through the Ben Gvir transformation,” I said. When I was contemplating whether to pull the trigger, I remembered you were in business, and took the picture.’ I was thus proud”, he said.
Although Ben Gvir’s unique government colleagues and the Shin Bet protection service have accused him of inciting tension, opinion polls indicate that he is still in favor and that there is a lot of support for Israel’s efforts to end Hamas and Hezbollah, both of which Israel, the US, and many of their allies, have designated them as criminal organizations.
Ben Gvir, 48, and Smotrich, 44, rose to power meteorically in 2022 after their celebrations combined for the poll to gain 14 seats in parliament. That made them essential to Netanyahu’s social life.
After another parties refused to negotiate with him following his indictment for scams and corruption, they were his only chance of forming a partnership that could win a majority in the legislature.
Just two years after Netanyahu declared in a TV interview that he was n’t fit to serve in government, Ben Gvir demanded that he be appointed in charge of the Homeland Security Office. Smotrich was given control over all civil elements of West Bank communities and the keys to the Finance Ministry. Both were given chairs in the case that would decide Israel’s protection strategy.
They have recently been in the news for allegedly thwarting the Gaza peace deal and then releasing Jewish hostages in exchange for Arab prisoners.
They vowed to overthrow the government if Palestinians are detained for killing Israelis, and they vehemently oppose the Israeli Army’s departure from Gaza. Ben Gvir had earlier threatened to resign from the coalition if Hezbollah and the coalition reach a permanent truce.
With the new addition of former senator Gideon Saar to the government and with it the aid of his party, their ability to hold Netanyahu to ransom has decreased. However, critics continue to be concerned about Ben Gvir’s impact over the local security forces because of his broad authority to control the police.
” Israel currently is less of a republic than it was two years ago when the state came into power”, said Mordechai Kremnitzer, professor professor of law at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. ” Basic right like the right to free speech have suffered substantially.”
Ben Gvir ordered the arrest of activists who allegedly rioted and blocked roads during demonstrations against the court’s criminal reform. Following the Hamas militant assault on October 7, those protests were halted and have since been replaced by those calling for immediate hostage release and vote.
Kobi Shabtai, a former police director, revealed that Ben Gvir attempted to override the chain of command by attempting to stop officers from securing humanitarian assistance fleets on their approach to Gaza. In his pension speech, Shabtai attacked Ben Gvir for intensely politicizing the officers, warning that it was “losing people legitimacy and even its right to exist.”
Ben Gvir’s company declined to comment for this account, beyond what he told Bloomberg in a July discussion. Israeli police, however, say that the liberty of protest and talk is never a freedom to set fires, stop roads and break through security barriers.
Danny Levy, the new police commissioner, was formally recognized by Ben Gvir for the position and stated at his swearing-in ceremony in late August that governance and sovereignty were top priorities. ” We’ll fight anyone who tries to harm government authority”, he said.
Ben Gvir has no previous experience with authority figures. He was an activist since he was 16 years old and grew up adhering to Rabbi Meir Kahane’s philosophy, the American-born founder of the radical organization Kach, which urged all Arabs to leave Israel. He claimed that because of his ties to Kach, which was outlawed in the 1990s, he was exempt from the mandatory military service.
Over the years, Ben Gvir was found guilty on several occasions of ideology-driven offenses, including support and possession of propaganda for a Jewish terror organization, incitement of racism, obstruction of a police officer, rioting and vandalism.
As a prominent member of Netanyahu’s government, it’s his support for West Bank settlers and access to Temple Mount that are now raising concerns.
Since Israel conquered the site in 1967, Ben Gvir has been advocating for a change in the status quo that would permit Jews to pray on the mountain. Netanyahu rejected his plans, and Yoav Gallant, the defense minister, described Ben Gvir as a “pyromaniac trying to set fire to the Middle East.”
In addition, many of the gun licenses were issued to quick response teams, small groups of civilians trained to offer an initial defense in the event of an attack like Hamas’ on October 7, with 150, 000 of those issued in six months compared to 8 000 in the previous year. Ben Gvir bragged about increasing their number from 70 to 900.
Some are in the West Bank, where there’s been a sharp change of mood over the past two years, according to Dan Turner, a professor who resides in the Ma’ale-Adumim settlement east of Jerusalem. He attributed it to discrimination based on” Ben Gvir and Smotrich’s commanding spirit.”
” The reality on the ground is that there is a very limited law enforcement, and this has definitely gotten worse since the government came to power,” said Turner, a local activist for Palestinian rights.
Nadav Argaman, the former head of the Israeli security service Shin Bet, recently stated in a television interview that Israel was “losing itself as a democracy, step by step.”
Since the Hamas attacks of October 7th, police have been working day and night to save Israel, including the West Bank, where they collaborate with Shin Bet to detain Palestinian militants.
President Joe Biden, who said in an interview that if Israel “keeps up its incredibly conservative government — Ben Gvir and others — they’re going to lose support around the world,” has publicly criticized both Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. Axios reported that the two ministers had been subject to sanctions at the White House, but Biden rejected the suggestion.
Ben Gvir, who has publicly supported Donald Trump in the US presidential election, said in an interview with Bloomberg that” I do n’t personally care about the idea of sanctions.” ” Israel, however, should be asking: is this any way to treat an ally”?
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