AFPThe display between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the head of the domestic intelligence agency Bet, Ronen Bar, has further intensified, each man accusing the other of lies or inaccuracies in the oath.
Netanyahu announced the dismissal of the bar last month, but the Attorney General and the opposition appealed this decision to the Supreme Court, which has actually fixed it for the moment.
Netanyahu published an affidavit for the court on Sunday, in which he described Bar as a liar.
He followed a barrel affidavit a few days earlier, in which he had accused the Prime Minister of having demanded personal loyalty and ordering the bet of Tibia to spy on the anti -government demonstrators.
EPAThe confrontation still revealed the rifts of deepening Israeli policy and society between the right and the right wrinkles supporting Netanyahu and the most liberal elements of the country, which went down to the streets to protest against the measures of the government to slow down the powers of the magistrate of the magistrate.
He focuses on the insistence of Netanyahu for having drawn the head of betting for professional failures.
Bar a counters saying that his dismissal was motivated by political and personal considerations.
In his affidavit last week, the spy chief said he was “clear” that if there was a constitutional crisis, Netanyahu would expect him to obey the Prime Minister and not in the courts.
He also said that Netanyahu had put him pressure on him to use the Tibia bet to spy on the Israelis leading or provide financial support to anti-government demonstrations.
Many in Israel reacted with alarm, saying that it was proof of what seemed to be an unprecedented effort to go beyond the powers of the national intelligence agency.
EPANow in his affidavit, which works as a form of refutation, Netanyahu in turn has excrupted the head of Pari Shin.
“The accusation that I have demanded an action against innocent civilians or against a non-violent and legitimate demonstration during the 2023 demonstrations, is an absolute lie,” he said.
Netanyahu also trained his views of security failures in attacks and during the attacks of October 7, claiming that Bar wore “massive and direct responsibility” for them and “failed in his role as shin bet and lost the confidence of the entire Israeli government with regard to his ability to continue to manage the organization”.
Bar immediately responded in kind in a statement, saying that the Affidavit of Netanyahu was “full of inaccuracies, biased quotes and half-truths aimed at withdrawing things from the context and changing reality”.
EPATo make its decision on the dismissal of bar, the Supreme Court may have to make a choice between the two conflicting affidavits which it deems more credible.
Or the court can seek to defuse the crisis to some extent by finding a mechanism and a date on which Bar could accept to resign,
But the problems that have been exposed in ferocious recriminations between the two men again focused on the growing bitterness between the opposite sections of Israeli society.
These were still exacerbated by the line of flaw constantly increasing between those who support Netanyahu and its hard government to want to continue the war in Gaza to eliminate Hamas at all costs, and those who believe that the fate of living Israeli hostages is still detained by Hamas must be put first, even if it means putting an end to the war.
