Galit Distel-Atbaryan, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, has publicly apologized for her actions over the past year, acknowledging her role in creating deep societal divisions within Israel which she says contributed to the weakening of the nation and set the stage for the devastating Hamas attacks on October 7 and the subsequent months-long conflict.
Distel-Atbaryan, who served as the public diplomacy minister in the government, was a fervent advocate for the controversial judicial overhaul program. Known for her strong rhetoric against critics of the program, she resigned from her ministerial position shortly after the outbreak of the current conflict. Reflecting on her tenure, she conceded that her ministry was redundant, ineffective, and a misuse of public funds, and expressed her profound anger towards Netanyahu.
“There were about 100 people who drove 9 million toward an abyss,” she told Channel 13, implicating figures from politics, media, and social media. “I was part of the group that caused the state to weaken, that harmed people, that harmed citizens who in daily life are my friends, are my partner.”
“It hit me in a second, suddenly, in a bang. You suddenly realize that everything you were doing and thinking was good, was bad. I created a rift, and I created division, and I created tension, and this tension caused a weakness. And this weakness, in many aspects, led to the massacres [by Hamas on October 7],” Distel-Atbaryan said.
“I am here, telling you and the democratic-secular public — I sinned before you. I caused you pain, I caused you to fear for your lives here. I apologize for this.”
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Judicial reform is a reasonable necessity. Perhaps they didn’t have to make it sound so ‘in your face’. Also, because of the huge backlash they may have forgot their original purpose. They didn’t explain why it was needed nearly enough.
but the other side was much worse. from hiring Russian rent a protest to collaborating with pro terrorist groups
So we should just let the Supreme Court impose a liberal-secularist agenda over us without fighting back?
The apology from all heads of the heretic “Jewish State” shld be only to the the ONE ABOVE.
G d showed these atheists His wrsth in this massacre.
A זהמה festival, (w many innocent Israelis) but the holy land spit it out.
Their military was thrown into chaos. The כוחי ועוצם ידי was to a sinful level without the sins of this sinful minister.
Women are easily influenced by public pressure.
She must be so happy now. Stupid woman, dangerous decision by the Supreme Court. This is what they’re busy with, in the middle of a war? Disgusting worms, undermining whatever unity we currently have.
She was right the first time, and she’s wrong to regret it. תוהה על מעשים טובים שעשתה. Today’s judicial coup only proves how right she was then, and how wrong she is now.
We cannot give up the nation in the name of “achdut” and of not having division; that was the fault of the Kerensky government, and look what happened to it, and the disastrous consequences of its reluctance to fight for power.
This may not be the right time for a civil war, but there is never a right time for one, and yet it is forced on us and we must fight it. Think of the Biryonim who chose the middle of a siege to pick a fight with the Chachomim, and the Chachomim did not unilaterally surrender.
Another middle-age woman destroying western civilization.