A new recording of a conversation between A., the head of the Shin Bet’s Jewish Division, and Cdr. Avishai Mualem, the commander of the Yehuda and Shomron Police Unit, was revealed on Sunday evening.
The report follows the furor that arose following a Kan News report on Motzei Shabbos exposing A. as disparagingly referring to settlers and saying that they are routinely arrested without evidence and thrown into jail “with the mice.”
Channel 14 revealed a conversation between the two that took place three days after the Hamas massacre on October 7. What was A. concerned about after Hamas’s grisly murder of 1,200 people, abduction of 251 people, and other atrocities?
“The Jews are arming themselves,” he complained to Mualem.
Mualem: “What’s the problem with that? We went through a massacre, it’s natural for them to arm themselves legally.”
A.: “There is illegal weaponry in Yitzhar.” When Mualem pressed him about what he was referring to, he admitted that he meant a number of regular pistol bullets.
In the wake of the public outcry following the report, A. stepped down from his position until the completion of an investigation into the issue.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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This is the long time leadership in Israel. They don’t care about Jewish lives physically and certainly not spiritually. A long list of attacks against religious Jews goes back to 1948. They wanted a country that is culturally Jewish but not Torah Jewish. Most of you are too young to remember the protests against forced autopsies. Whenever a Jew died anywhere they would have the police cease the body and cut them up. Everyone from Satmar to Agudah was busy protesting this worldwide. Pictures of cut up bodies were posted all over manhattan. Before that they took yeminite children and separated from their religious parents and put them into kibbutzim to eat pork. And holocaust survivors were given no choice but to go to an anti religious kibbutz or sleep on the street. Issue after issue came up every time. Chillul shabbos,pork stores, gay parades and drafting yeshiva boys. On the physical annihilation look how they threw out the Jews from gush katif after living there 30 years. Soldiers who defend themselves without a warning shot end up on trial and in jail. Terrorist are released but Jews who hurt Arabs have to sit in jail.
So the Israeli secret police have a “Jewish Division”. Sounds like something dating back to when the bulk of the zionist movement was aligned with the Soviet Union.
Heimisha guy, I love you.