>>2547386Opinion | Just don't turn the military advocate general into a martyrWhen night is day, a military advocate general can become a martyr, someone who has fought for upholding the law and for human rights until she was burned at the stake, an innocent victim of the evil right wing. When night is day, only when the advocate general is not derelict in her duty and takes a bold step for the first (and last) time in her career, is she ousted.
The insatiable monster can never be satisfied. You can defend the genocide, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, you can gloss over all the crimes, cover up all the investigations and whitewash the crimes committed by Israeli soldiers, and thus please your commanders. But on the first slip-up, the monster will hold you accountable.
Was it worth it, Maj. Gen. Tomer-Yerushalmi, to serve with such servility the criminal army, with your end being so pathetic? Wouldn't it have been more correct to fulfill your duty, to boldly and with integrity speak up, at least being deposed with some dignity? As the old Jewish parable goes, you both ate the rotten fish and were expelled from the city. Was it worth it?
For years, you passed judgment in military courts, which have no connection to what you were taught in university. You were a prosecutor and a judge, throwing thousands of people into prison without a genuine trial. You prevented any investigation of thousands of crimes committed by soldiers against Palestinians, in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip.
Every case of a child being shot to death over nothing or of an abusive soldier received legal backing from you and the system you head. In this system, there are never soldiers who commit crimes, not even after the horrors of Gaza.
You lent a hand to the most despicable show, one called the military justice system, in which it is enough for someone to be Palestinian to be convicted; an apartheid court in which the accused have no rights or acquittals, all of it only cheap theatrics in a fake justice system. That's how you rose through the ranks, becoming the military advocate general, all for the sake of whitewashing the crimes of the army in which you were serving.
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