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It is Not a ‘Glitch’, It is a Fiasco

>> Read all messages from Zehava Galon

“A glitch” is how National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi termed the events of October 7 in an interview with Rafi Reshef on N12. “A glitch”??? Hanegbi, a professional spineless figure, also told Likud leaders he had been dispatched to discuss politics with that “the role of a state commission of inquiry would be to eliminate right-wing rule.”

A commission of inquiry is not a matter of politics, but is what a learning organism does. A self-preserving country cannot turn a blind eye to the greatest debacle in its history. A country that wants children to play in the fields and families to live along its borders cannot afford to leave this year as is and forget all about it, exposed to exploitation by any political spin doctor and conspiracy theorist. This is a sure recipe for disaster, for civil war, for the collapse of what little remains unbroken by this government in its short existence.

In an unprecedented large-scale move, a petition to the Supreme Court to order the Israeli government to establish a state commission of inquiry was filed on behalf of Zulat and 84 former government ministers and members of Knesset by Adv. Dafna Holtz-Lechner. Affidavits by former ministers who were involved in the establishment of such commissions in the past reaffirm our argument that “the appointment of a state commission of inquiry is needed urgently, first and foremost in order to draw the necessary lessons to prevent the recurrence of similar events in the future, as well as to restore the people’s trust in all governmental systems and authorities and to initiate the healing and recovery process direly needed by Israeli society.”

The “glitch” of October 7 continues to this day because in Jerusalem there is a government that has no idea how to fill the chasm that has opened and couldn’t care less to do so. We have been living this nightmare for nine months now, and the only thing Netanyahu has been seen to care about in this time is politics. The Israeli government is not functioning. It did not function before October 7, and even the shock of the massacre did not make it come to its senses. We need a thorough cleansing process, and we need to know exactly who did a good job, who did not, and why. We must not let Netanyahu pull the wool over our eyes with a “governmental investigation committee” whose members he would appoint, which would be filled with a thousand Tzachi Hanegbi’s, and whose conclusions would be accordingly. Netanyahu is already working in that direction.

A state commission of inquiry is a vital necessity, not of the “right-wing rule” of Netanyahu and his bootlickers but of the State of Israel. This is not the first time that our needs, as a people and as a country, collide with the political needs of Binyamin Netanyahu. This has been our problem to date. It is time for it to become his problem.

Yours,

Zehava Galon

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Dr. Maha Sabbah Karkabi

 

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Tel Aviv University (2015), a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London (2015-2016), a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Sociology at Tel Aviv University (2016-2017), and a postdoctoral fellowship Ph.D. at the Humphrey Institute for Social Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2018-2020).
Dr. Maha Karbahi’s areas of interest focus on the connection between social change, family behavior, and gender inequality in societies in the process of change and specifically in Palestinian Arab society in Israel. Her research draws attention to the study of family life and employment, using a combined “ethnic lens” and “gender lens” and paying attention to the perspective of Palestinian Arab women, a group characterized by intersections between multiple marginal locations, which over the years has remained hidden from the research eye. Dr. Karkabi-Sabah’s research is published in professional journals and chapters in scientific books that are considered pioneers in family research, work, and gender equality.

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Prof. Frances Raday

Professor Emeritus in the Lieberman Chair in Labor Law, in the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University and serves as a full professor in the College of Management’s academic track, where she also serves as chair of the graduate program and as honorary president of the Concord Center for International Law Absorption. Radai was a member of a working group of the UN Human Rights Council on discrimination against women. In addition, she is a prominent and feminist human rights activist.

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Dr. Rawia Aburabia 

Faculty member of Sapir Academic College’s School of Law, received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research deals with the interface between law, gender, minorities, and human rights. Has published in leading journals on the subject of the matrimonial laws pertaining to Muslim women in Israel. Her book Under the Law, Outside Justice: Polygamy, Gendered Citizenship, and Colonialism in Israeli Law is expected to be published as part of the Gender Series of Kibbutz Meuhad Publishing House.

Dr. Aburabia has extensive experience in international human rights and public law. She has worked as a jurist for the Association for Civil Right and has been invited as a specialist to address such international forums as the United Nations and the European Parliament on the subject of indigenous communities and minority rights. She has interned with Human Rights Watch in Washington DC, and has been a member of the executive board of Amnesty International. In 2018, she was selected by the magazine Globes as one of the 40 most promising young persons in Israel under the age of 40.

 

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Ron Kessler

With over two decades of experience in the field of digital content, Ron has participated in numerous political and social campaigns. He helped run the digital activity of senior public officials, and worked in various NGOs. Ron is a fundamentally optimistic man, who believes that Israel can be changed and so can people. Lives in Tel Aviv.