Dangerous leaks of Ben Ghafir What are they and what are their goals?

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Afrasianet -  Dr. Abdullah Maarouf - The effects of leaks reported by Israel's Channel Thirteen about Ben Gvir's attempts to form militias and inflame the situation in Jerusalem, as well as his wife's interference in state politics, continue to have an impact on public opinion in Israel.


These leaks, in addition to Smotrich's previous leaks six months ago about the annexation of the West Bank, confirmed the fact that this person and the religious Zionist movement in general seek to control the state completely, and eliminate its existing institutions that oppose the tendencies of this current in expanding and annexing the areas of the West Bank and settlement in Gaza, and thus resolving the conflict between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, by emptying this area completely of the Palestinians.


The leaks were part of a long report broadcast by the channel, which dealt with many dark corners in Ben Gvir's work in the ministry, his wife's interference in appointments and dismissals in the police, in addition to arming settlers and how to arm them, and other serious issues. This report stirred public opinion in Israel, to the extent that the attorney general intervened and asked for Ben Gvir's dismissal.


The leaks showed that Ben Gvir and his own internal group are deliberately seeking to ignite the situation in the city of Jerusalem to take extreme measures related to the Palestinian presence in the city, and certainly also related to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, the most prominent title of the conflict in the holy city.


Perhaps the most dangerous and extreme of these measures involves the Israeli army in entering and conducting operations in Jerusalem, as Israeli law prohibits the army institution from operating inside Jerusalem as it is not occupied Israeli territory.


This differs from the legal status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip with Israel, where Israel declared the annexation of East Jerusalem – without its inhabitants – after its occupation in 1967, and in a completely different way from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which it kept under the command of the occupation army as militarily occupied territory.


Thus, Jerusalem has become in the law of the occupying power a piece of the state like Tel Aviv, and the army does not operate there at all in normal cases, because the army operates outside the borders of the areas under the control of the Israeli Ministry of Interior only.


Perhaps this point is unknown at the level of the Arab and Islamic street, which sometimes sees armed soldiers in Jerusalem wearing green uniforms and looking military, and in fact this uniform belongs to a special service in the occupation police – not the army – called the "Border Police", and they represent one of the police services of the Ministry of Interior, and thus they are completely different in their work and equipment from the Israeli army forces, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Defense.


This shows the level of confusion and striking between the Israeli apparatus between the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of the Interior, which Ben Gvir wants to reach in Jerusalem.


What angered public opinion in Israel in this part of the leaks, and raised much ado, was the issuance of these attempts by the Minister of National Security, who is in charge of the police, who is supposed to try to maintain security, public order and calm inside the country.


This in itself is a clear indication of the level of decline reached by the Israeli ruling establishment, which today deals with both domestic and foreign policy with the logic of the militia rather than the logic of the "civilized" state with which Israel has cracked our heads for seventy-six years.


The two figures who appeared with Ben Gvir in the leak were Hanmal Dorfman, a leader of Ben-Gvir's Jewish Greatness party, and Bentzy Gopstein, leader of the extremist organization Lahava. The latter in particular was the one who provoked the most anger from these leaks, as Gopstein does not have a specific political character, he is not a member of the Knesset, nor does he represent a political party, but he is the leader of an extremist organization that espouses the ideas of the designated rabbi Meir Kahane, whose name is "Lahava", which means "Flame", an acronym for the long term "Prevention of Dissolution in the Holy Land," refers to the preservation of the idea of "Jewish racial purity" in the Palestinian territories.


This organization, which was formed in 2005, is not officially registered in Israel, and is considered by the Israeli security services as an unofficial organization of settlers, and was directly responsible for the events of the Damascus Gate uprising in Jerusalem in 2021, when it insisted on storming the Damascus Gate area with shouts of "death to the Arabs", which led to the launch of rockets from Gaza on Jerusalem and the announcement by the Palestinian resistance factions of  the launch of the "Sword of Jerusalem" battle, which spread throughout the Palestinian territories.


The question that is going on today in the corridors of debate in Israel: What calls on the Minister of National Security, who is in charge of police and law enforcement, to discuss with the leader of an extremist terrorist organization ways to implicate the occupation army in operating in Jerusalem? Unless Ben Gvir himself considered himself part of these extremist religious organizations before he was a minister in this state.


Therefore, the deep state in Israel, which is still resisting the attempt of religious Zionism to control the state completely, saw in these leaks an opportunity to try to get rid of Ben Gvir once and for all.


This prompted the attorney general to attack Ben Gvir strongly and demand that Netanyahu dismiss him, which prompted Ben Gvir to declare war on the attorney general, call for her dismissal, and put himself and his movement on one side, in exchange for the presence of the attorney general on the other side, and threaten Netanyahu that he is "either Ben Gvir or the attorney general."


The escalation of matters between the two sides is one of the biggest indicators of the level of political chaos that Israel is experiencing today under the Netanyahu government. It is clear that Netanyahu will probably not sacrifice Ben Gvir—at least for now—to the attorney general, because Netanyahu himself is involved in the attempted judicial coup that preceded the 2023 Al-Aqsa flood.


Netanyahu may see in these events an opportunity to bring about the coup he dreamed of on the judicial systems, and to tighten his control over the state, and by doing so he is handing over his state to Smotrich and Ben Gvir on a plate, and I do not think he would mind that, as long as the price is to remain at the helm of power to ensure that he does not go to prison.


If the attorney general's efforts to remove Ben Gvir succeed, Smotrich will have lost half of his strength, and this will lead to extreme measures such as withdrawing from the government and toppling it, which Netanyahu does not want.


On the other hand, it should be noted that these leaks, which are related to Jerusalem in particular, clearly indicate a real intention on the part of Ben Gvir and his movement to go towards an inevitable confrontation with Jerusalemites, and it will not help Jerusalemites to try to ignore this matter, or to claim that some should not give Ben Gvir an "excuse" to carry out an unprecedented campaign in the city aimed at permanently deporting its residents.


In the leaks, it was revealed that Gobstein asks Ben Gvir to search for any weapon in East Jerusalem, and assures him that he will find even one piece (which any policeman or settler can plant in any Palestinian home in Jerusalem), to declare an emergency and ignite the situation in Jerusalem, to force the army to intervene and act in Jerusalem against the Palestinian population, according to the leaks, leading to the final uprooting of Palestinians from Jerusalem and emptying it of them.


This approach gives you an idea of the mentality of Ben Gvir and Gobstein, and those with them in the current of religious Zionism, they do not need an excuse, because if they do not find an excuse, they will invent it.


The result that Jerusalemites should understand from these leaks is that confrontation in Jerusalem is inevitable and inevitably coming, and the people of Jerusalem – instead of seeking to avoid this confrontation – should prepare for it psychologically and morally and in all respects, as this confrontation if it takes place in Jerusalem, as Ben Gvir and Gobstein plan, it will not be like the previous confrontations, but it will be a confrontation entitled to be or not to be.


Its ultimate fate will be one of two: either deter the occupation with an unprecedented popular force that is a prelude to the collapse of the occupation presence in Jerusalem as a whole, or empty Jerusalem of its Jerusalemite population permanently.


If this happens, God forbid, its price will be very high, and it will not stop at the occupation control of Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem completely, but will go beyond it to empty the West Bank completely, as Jerusalem is the most difficult equation, and the occupation believes that if it manages to defeat the Jerusalemites and resolve the battle in Jerusalem, it will be able to resolve the battle in the West Bank, and even in the entire region.


We do not need a Palestinian version of Yitzhak Brik, the Israeli "prophet of wrath", to warn of what is coming, but we need to open our eyes and ears well to what is happening around us, and to carefully analyze every word he says and every step taken by the followers of religious Zionism who rule Israel today, because every word they say has its aftermath.


Let us remember that we are not dealing here with seasoned politicians or strategic planners, but with a handful of religiously obsessed reckless people who have convinced themselves that today they are living in a time of miracles that they must exploit to the fullest, and are only deterred from these crazy tendencies by mass deterrence that should return them to reality, otherwise their dreams become a reality on earth.

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