Israel Needs Breaking the Silence
Source: Haaretz Editorial
Instead of finding real solutions to terror attacks, Israel's government has embraced a nasty strategy of wild incitement against a human rights organization.
Breaking the Silence has become the biggest threat to Israels security, at least according to a Channel 2 investigative report last week. The report presented alleged evidence showing the NGOs activists trying to obtain sensitive military information from a right-wing activist posing as a former soldier.
The exposé which, it transpired, was made by the rightist NGO Ad Kan made it to Immigrant Absorption Minister Zeev Elkin, who said he was seriously concerned that Breaking the Silence is being used for espionage. Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon hastened to order a probe into the incident and, on his Facebook page, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Breaking the Silence crossed another red line and security officials were looking into the matter.
Of course, Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) took advantage of the opportunity to portray himself as a rightist, body and soul. The NGO is undermining the State of Israel and causing it great damage internally and externally, he announced. While Israel is struggling against a wave of terror, Breaking the Silence is taking information and using it against the state. Israel must do everything to protect its soldiers this organization has no right to exist in a state that is fighting terror daily for its peoples safety, he said.
All that remains, it seems, is to demand that the cabinet declare Breaking the Silence a terror organization, arrest its members and put on trial the treacherous soldiers who passed on information about the Israel Defense Forces crimes in the territories. Then we will have to congratulate Channel 2 for its journalistic achievement, saving Israel from its destroyers, as it previously did with the program Uvda, which exposed another enemy of the state, left-wing activist Ezra Nawi.
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