“A bullet between the eyes. Die! Die!” they demanded in the studio
One day, when the ritual leaves the Israeli television studio and takes place in the city’s squares, every evening, it will be the moment when the traitor will be led onto the stage, another Guy Peleg or a Military Advocate General who have done a sterling job, but who are is despised as enemies of the Bibiist revolution.
By Rogel Alpher • Translated by Sol Salbe
The Trumpist public denunciation show held by Shimon Riklin every night, which is reminiscent of the demonstrations of thuggish Red Guards during the days of the Cultural Revolution in China, this time dealt with the demonisation of Channel 12’s Guy Peleg and the Military Advocate General. They were presented as enemies of IDF soldiers, and the gang in the studio did not demand that they be executed, as was customary at the time at the end of the indictment in China. What it did call for was the execution, with a bullet between the eyes, of the security detainee whose abuse at the Sde Teiman detention centre was the focus of the daily fascist catharsis.
This catharsis reached its usual crescendo when Riklin waved his hands to the sides in a gesture of astonishment and wondered how it was possible that the day’s traitor at the stake turned against the people in such a way and collaborated with the Nazi/Arab enemy, and those present in the studio burst into an enthusiastic response with inflammatory answers. One day, when the ritual leaves the television studio and takes place in the city’s squares, every evening, it will be the moment when the traitor will be led onto the stage, another Guy Peleg or a Military Advocate General who have done a sterling job, but who are is despised as enemies of the Bibiist revolution.
At the end of August, Peleg broadcast a video that he said documented the offence attributed to the reservists in Sde Teiman: “Committing sodomy under circumstances of rape.” And Riklin’s studio’s guest went berserk: Rape? How did rape get into it? Why did Guy Peleg invent rape? There is no rape in the indictment. Therefore, Peleg was seen to have deliberately slandered the soldiers. And the MAG who rushed to issue an indictment before the investigation into the leak of the video was completed? She should issue an indictment for her son. Yes, you heard it right. And to the Attorney General’s son.
No one mentioned what was in the indictment. A minor detail, which was omitted by mistake. Well, the defendants took the detainee who had his arms and legs tied up, stabbed him in his buttocks with a sharp object that penetrated near his anus, broke his ribs, and caused a perforation in his lung and an internal tear in his rectum. It should be emphasised that Peleg never attributed rape to the defendants, but rather “sodomy under circumstances of rape.” This means inserting an object into the anus of a certain person against their will. The detainee was stabbed in the arse and suffered an internal tear in his rectum. The difference between this and “sodomy under circumstances of rape” is microscopic.
On the Ryklin Show — Peleg and those who leaked to him that it was rape (the show replenishes anew a fresh paranoid witch hunt every evening) are the perpetrators, while the defendants are guilty, if at all, of not using sufficient violence.
Lawyer Efraim Dimri, who represents some of the defendants, asserted no less than five times that they should have broken the detainees’ bones. “Let them break his bones, that’s their job,” he said. According to him, the detainee sexually harassed a female soldier and boasted to the defendants that he had slaughtered Jews. Dimri declared several times that the defendants should have murdered him on the spot. “Die!” he cried, “Die! A bullet between the eyes, the story is over.” Elor Azaria replaces Herzl as the one whose vision prophesised the state. The motto remains the same: If you will it [Im Tirtzu in Hebrew], it is no dream.
