After the Beit Dreinoff complex in Beit El was razed in compliance with a Supreme Court order, MK (Bayit Yehudi) Moti Yogev stated It is charlatanism and audacity of the court. We must take a D9 [bulldozer] to the Supreme Court. It is time to put the judiciary in place and we must nip the dogs wagging tail and show who is the sovereign authority.
The comments from Yogev, a retired IDF colonel, elicited the ire of many elected officials, including MKs from the Zionist Camp party. The condemnatory statements came from the right-wing camp too as elected officials quickly distanced themselves from his harsh criticism of the Supreme Court, Israels kodesh kedoshim.
Yogev on Wednesday night stood firm, explaining he stands by his words. Amid calls to remove him from Knesset and launch a police investigation against him for violating laws prohibiting incitement to violence, Yogev on Thursday morning 14 Menachem Av told Israel Radio that It is possible I should not have said a bulldozer should be used against the Supreme Court, reiterating how he felt the courts ruling regarding the Beit El buildings was not just.
Former Supreme Court President Professor Aaron Barak stated he is not certain if Yogevs statements are indeed incitement a defined by the law, opting to add The High Court of Justice is not for or against settlements, but simply in favor of the rule of law.
(YWN Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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4 Responses
shlisel
Barak you’re the right one to say “rule of the law” – you were the one when politicians called you “Judiciary dictatorship…”!
Problem is he is right
Time to tame the non elected self appointed government
interesting the so called “Zionist” camp has no problem sitting together with Zoabi who participated in known terrorism withe Mavi Marmara, the real problem for the Zionists is Yogev wears a yamaka.