Attorney General Sought to Distance Urich from Likud Election Campaign

Yonatan Urich, Netanyahu’s adviser | Photo: Avshalom Sassoni, Flash90

Yakov Bardugo

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How the Attorney General is trying to distance Urich from the Likud election campaign

The judicial dictatorship at the service of the left: the crazy move to prevent contact between Netanyahu and Urich exposes the true motivation of Amit Isman and Gali Baharav Miara, they are not seeking justice, but a political conviction and election theft. What we saw this morning is a severe blow to the ability of an entire political camp to run a campaign freely.

The filing of the indictment against Yonatan Urich in the classified documents affair is nothing less than a politically “targeted killing.” What appears on its face to be a routine legal proceeding is revealed as a blatant attempt by the law enforcement system to deal a severe blow to the Likud campaign and to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally.

2 + Yonatan Urich | Haim Goldberg, Flash90

The most dramatic move in the indictment is the inclusion of Benjamin Netanyahu on the list of witnesses. This is a puzzling step that raises difficult questions: Netanyahu was not questioned in this case, did not give testimony in it, and to this day his name has not been substantively linked to it. So why is he now listed as a witness? The apparent answer is simple and troubling, once Netanyahu is defined as a witness, Yonatan Urich, his close adviser, is forbidden from making contact with him. In this way, the prosecution succeeds in distancing one of Likud’s key strategists from the prime minister in the midst of an election period, thereby creating planned chaos in the right-wing headquarters.

2 + Yonatan Urich | Photo: Flash90

Amit Isman and Gali Baharav Miara, together with the team on Salah a-Din Street, are acting here not as objective jurists, but as dangerous political actors. Their motivation appears clear, to continue the persecution of Netanyahu and to politically convict him and the right, perhaps even as an attempt to divert public discussion from the failures of October 7. This is a cynical use of the power of office to influence the results of the democratic process in the State of Israel. It is time to stop deceiving ourselves: Salah a-Din has long since ceased to be only a legal system, and is now a political arena in every respect. Faced with a system that operates in such ways, the right must stop feeling helpless and start acting. The tools exist, from dismissing the heads of the system to blocking political appointments, but political courage is needed to use them.

2 + Yonatan Urich | Photo: Yonatan Shaul, Flash90

What we saw this morning is a severe blow to the ability of an entire political camp to run a campaign freely. When the prosecution decides who can speak to whom, it is not doing justice, it is doing politics. The right-wing and democratic public in Israel must wake up and understand that the fight is no longer only about the innocence of one adviser or another, but about the very ability to hold fair elections here without political judicial intervention.

The column was edited from the remarks made by our political commentator to Dana Varon, Yaakov Bardugo, the political and diplomatic commentator for Channel 14 and host of the programs “Weekend” and “Seven.” He served as CEO of the Federation of Local Authorities in Israel and as CEO of the Mifal HaPais lottery. A businessman and lawyer by profession.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Gali Baharav Miara, Likud, Yonatan Urich, Amit Isman

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