The Soldiers Are Innocent

Peloni:  Every step taken to secure the Leftist control over the bureacratic state onlys serves to certify its defeat.  Notably, two pivotal scandals, the Sde Teiman Prison Affair and the Spy Affair, were forced to be resolved using insanity pleas to excuse the actions which caused significant harm to the reputation and security of the state, it also revealed the level of duplicity which would be taken to ignore any further investigation holding others accountable for their role in these matters, even as the insanity pleas should only have shielded those who claimed this defense.  So, literally scores of potentially complicit defendants will go unquestioned in these scandals as judged by the judges and prosecutors whose role in these matters are themselves publicly questioned… and this is an even greater scandal which all can see quite readily.

Avi Abelow

The soldiers are innocent.

After over a year of global humiliation, accusations, and headlines portraying Israeli soldiers as monsters, the case against the IDF fighters in the so-called Sde Teiman prison affair has collapsed.

No evidence.
No proof.
No crime.

Just a political prosecution that never should have existed.

These were soldiers fighting a brutal war against Hamas terrorists who carried out the October 7 massacre. Yet instead of standing behind them, Israel’s legal establishment chose to place them on trial before the world.
And the world was watching.

One question alone exposes how shaky this entire case was from the beginning: if the prosecution truly believed it had solid evidence, why was the central witness, a commander of the atrocious Hamas barbarians who personally took part in the mass massacre, burning’s and rapes on Oct. 7th, released to Gaza?

The entire indictment was built on the testimony of a single Hamas detainee, whom the Military Advocate General’s office itself approached and prompted to make the allegation that he had been raped (which itself is insane!).
Yet the same system that brought the charges allowed that detainee to be released back into Gaza, placing him completely beyond the reach of Israeli courts.

In any serious legal system, the key witness in such a case would be secured to testify.
Instead, the only witness disappeared into enemy territory.

That decision alone should have ended the prosecution immediately.
But it didn’t.

Instead, the accusation exploded across the world after an edited video, from inside the Sde Teiman prison facility, footage accessible only to the legal authorities, was leaked to the press, and then spread around the world like wildfire.

The result was predictable.
The story went global.
Israel’s enemies amplified it.
Anti-Israel activists used it to smear our holy soldiers as war criminals. The United Nations issued anti-Israel resolutions based upon it.

And yet more than a year later, even after the collapse of the case, and the Military Advocate General admitting to have leaked the footage to the press, no one has been seriously investigated or punished for leaking that footage and causing tremendous diplomatic damage to Israel.

In any healthy democracy, leaking sensitive security footage that triggers a global scandal would lead to immediate investigations and resignations.

Instead, attempts to investigate have been stonewalled by the Supreme Court blocking efforts to uncover what really happened.

This is why more and more Israelis are stated a position that would have sounded extreme just a few years ago:
Israel’s legal system has become a political weapon in an ideological war against the Israeli public and her elected officials.

Because the pattern is becoming impossible to ignore.

Take the case of Muhammad Abu Salmiya, the director of Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital. The same hospital Hamas used as a command center and military base.

Yet Israel’s security establishment released him, citing overcrowding in detention facilities.

Prime Minister Netanyahu himself condemned the decision and demanded an investigation. No investigation has been done.

Then there is the case of the internal spy who infiltrated sensitive IDF bases and meetings at the beginning of the war.

Instead of transparency, the justice system placed sweeping gag orders on the case and repeatedly attempted to have the suspect released on insanity grounds, despite reported connections in the indictment to leaders of the left-wing protest movement.

To this day, the public still does not know the full details of what he did or who he was in contact with.

When you look at these cases together, and these are only the tip of the iceberg, a troubling picture emerges.

Sensitive decisions.
Explosive scandals.
Leaks that damage Israel globally.
And then—silence.

Investigations blocked.
Gag orders imposed.
Questions unanswered.

Whether one believes in the existence of a “deep state” or not, it is cases like these that fuel the perception that unelected officials inside Israel’s legal, intelligence, and defense systems are operating with enormous power, and sometimes in ways that appear to undermine the policies of Israel’s elected leadership.

The Sde Teiman prison affair should be a turning point. These soldiers lives were ruined as part of an ideological battle by unelected officials in the justice system. They must be punished, not protected by their peers in the justice system.

Because when the justice system targets the soldiers defending Israel instead of the terrorists trying to destroy it, and protects judicial peers for crimes done, something has gone terribly wrong.

Israel’s soldiers deserve protection.
Israel’s enemies deserve justice.
And Israel’s legal system must remember which side it is supposed to be on.

Bottom line, Israel’s legal system must be reformed to restore public trust. In Judaism, the gravest corruption occurs when judges abandon facts and evidence and rule based on outside pressures or agendas. Sadly, that is where we are today. It is precisely why so many Israelis do not trust the current judicial establishment to investigate the failures of October 7, they are seen as compromised.

Real justice requires real reform. The time for judicial reform is now.

This war is exposing a great deal of moral rot—both from our enemies and from within our own ranks. It is up to us to strengthen our faith, recommit ourselves to God’s morality, and stop blindly trusting people simply because they hold powerful positions. This is God’s world, and it is our responsibility to put Him back at the center.

Am Yisrael Chai!!!