is that so?

17/8/2023

Idan Kedem

"The police should be apolitical and act according to the law. The law, the judgment and the principles of democracy teach that the people go to the polls and whoever is elected should dictate policy, and everyone should act according to this policy. That's how it is in a democracy," said Minister of Internal Security Itamar Ben-Gvir at the commander change ceremony border Patrol. This is true. And who is the people? Well, the people in a democracy are all the governed of that government, and they are the ones who have the right to go to the ballot box and vote their government. They are the absolute number from which the democratic majority is derived. Violation of this rule also negates the legitimacy of "whoever is elected" by the majority to dictate policy and be in power in general, because in the absence of a valid absolute number there is also no valid majority derived from it. And now, this violation has been happening in Israel since 1967, under its control over people (Palestinians) without giving them the right to vote. That is, all Israel's assemblies and governments since then are not legitimate, Including the last ones, in the partnership of Ben-Gvir. Also, since that date, there has been a violation of Israel's sovereignty by its own control over a region of land that is not under its sovereignty (Judea and Samaria), which cancels Israel's being a state. For, a situation in which there is no one-to-one value compatibility between a certain set of laws of a country and the territory it controls is unthinkable at all. That is, a country cannot control a territory that is not in its sovereignty. likewise, it's unlikely that people like Ben-Gvir will emerge from this non-sovereign territory, be elected to the government and to the legislature, and establish laws and deeds for the people of the sovereign territory.