Bennett: "Judges restrict soldiers' work" --- Meir Shamir

Bennett: "Judges restrict soldiers' work"
Meir Shamir
After the leader of the Jewish Home Party, Naftali Bennett, was exposed to a political defeat by Netanyahu, he shifted his focus to criticizing the army, specifically the military judiciary, which "limits the courage of Israeli fighters"
Although Netanyahu's education minister, Necati Bennett, fell victim to Netanyahu's political maneuver, Netanyahu proved that he still needed a lot of time to learn and reach his political level, and Bennett admitted that he had made a mistake when he warned the prime minister to appoint him as defense minister. For Avigdor Lieberman, who resigned, Bennett still refuses to back down from the serious criticism he is making against the Israeli army, and he has even begun to intensify it.
"It's important to tell you that we are faced with a serious problem in the defense system that led to the combatants being restricted in their work under the law," Bennett told the Israel Today newspaper. I am an old member of the Ministerial Council for Security and Political Affairs. Perhaps my remarks are serious but true: if we bombed the homes of Hamas operatives in the Shaja'iya neighborhood before the ground offensive launched by the Golani unit (in the battle between Israel and Hamas in Gaza in the summer of 2014), we would have avoided the killing of the soldiers. That incident was tragic. I say unequivocally that the fear of being tried in the International Tribunal and The Hague (war crimes tribunal) is overstated, imposing unnecessary restrictions on soldiers. "
According to Bennett, "I do not underestimate the international tribunal, but the field officer has to decide what are the right steps to follow, not the lawyers in the war rooms. The Court in The Hague derives its strength from the distortion of moral values ​​in European countries, which has made it a political tool. This is not a court that was supposed to consider anti-terrorism issues or in Israel, which has a sound and democratic self-control system. I hope that the prime minister will fulfill his promise to make changes in all systems, destroy terrorist houses as they should, evacuate Khan al-Ahmar, and I promise that I will continue to work until these things are done. "I think the prime minister does not have enough time to bring about the necessary revolution, but from the moment I assume this responsibility, I will support him in order to succeed in creating it."
Bennett added, "In the Operation Defensive Cliff in Gaza in the summer of 2014, there were many cases in which we harmed the soldiers because we wanted to protect the enemy, and we allowed him to escape. I tell you with all confidence that the lives of Israeli soldiers are more precious than the lives of our enemies. I feel sad when I see soldiers retreating when they are being thrown at concrete blocks instead of shooting. When I see Palestinians damaging part of the border fence in Gaza and not being harmed, I feel that things are not going well. The same is true of the hot-air balloons that are fired at close by and not directly against them. This confrontation is not ethical. The Israeli public has good feelings, and it prefers the enemy to die instead. "
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