Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs launched a public and unusually harsh attack on Sunday night against Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara following her publication of a “legal opinion” opposing the government’s establishment of a ministerial commission of inquiry into the failures of the October 7 massacre.
Baharav-Miara claimed that the proposed bill is “legislation personalized for the needs of the government.” Instead, she supports a state commission of inquiry headed by a judge appointed by leftist justice Yitzchak Amit.
The government’s bill to advance the ministerial commission of inquiry was approved in the Knesset’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Monday.
Fuchs criticized Baharav-Miara’s so-called “legal opinion,” saying that it completely lacks a legal foundation. “I turned and turned the 17 pages of her letter, and I found everything in it except legal reasoning,” he wrote.
“You really have to rub your eyes to read this—she complains that the government controls the Knesset and that a private government member’s bill is being misused,” he stated.
Fuch slammed Baharav-Miara’s letter as “the cry of the robbed Cossack” and accused her of “trying to control the government since its establishment and turning the Attorney-General’s Office into a fourth branch of government by blocking bills that don’t align with its agenda.”
“This month, I’ll have completed three years in this position … and I have yet to receive a single legal opinion from the Attorney General with arguments that hold water. It is all part of a clear agenda.”
Fuchs emphasized that the government’s proposal will establish an independent commission of inquiry, with powers identical to those of a state commission of inquiry, while setting a balanced composition between the coalition and the opposition in order to ensure broad public trust.
Fuchs concluded his remarks with another jab: “I am eagerly awaiting for the Attorney General’s ‘legal opinion’ regarding the government’s proposed decision to close Army Radio… I hope I’ll be able to withstand the suspense.”
Sure enough, on Monday, Baharav-Miara published another so-called “legal opinion,” claiming that the government’s decision to shut down Army Radio is “illegal.”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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How did this criminal Nazi get hired? Does she work for Hamas or Hezbollah? It’s amazing someone who fails at their job so many times and works so hard against the state is still allowed to stay in the position thanks to the Hitler Supreme Court. She should be thrown into a truck and taken to Gaza to be burned alive