Military Intelligence services affirm that Iran and Hezbollah consider the situation “a historical point of weakness” for the country
Israel’s Army Intelligence services have warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the possible implications for national security of the controversial judicial reform bill and have stressed that Iran and the Shiite militia party Hezbollah consider it “a point record of weakness” for the country.
According to the information provided this Friday by the Israeli newspaper ‘Yedioth Ahronoth’, the military intelligence services have transferred to ‘Bibi’ that “the enemy perceives the summer of 2023 as a historic point of weakness for Israel”, in the midst of a wave of demonstrations against the project and between complaints from the opposition against the proposal.
“While previous discussions focused on ‘tactical’ deterrence attacks, the intelligence community is now concerned about significant vulnerabilities in Israel’s overall deterrence capabilities due to the crisis,” the report said, without authorities saying. have ruled for now on this information.
The report states that the deterrence of Israel depends on four pillars, which are the strength of the Army, relations with the United States, the economy and national unity, which would be damaged by the project promoted by the Government, made up of ultra-Orthodox parties and extreme rightists.
Likewise, the newspaper has stressed that the chief of the General Staff of the Israeli Army, Herzi Halevi, supported the conclusions of the report during a recent meeting with Netanyahu, as reported by the Israeli newspaper ‘Haaretz’.
To this is added that the Army warned on Tuesday that its combat capacity could be damaged if the reservists comply with their threat not to appear in protest of the judicial reform project.
In this context, the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, stated this week that Israel “is on the path to disappearance” and stated that “until now Israel was thought to be a regional power that could not be defeated, so countries accepted this threat as a fact”.
The project overcame an important barrier this week with the approval in the Knesset of the so-called “sensible clause” –which prevents courts from using judicial standards of “sensible” to analyze government decisions–, a boycotted vote for the opposition.
Netanyahu himself celebrated the “necessary” approval of the new law on Monday and has extended his hand to the opposition to continue negotiating with a view to the future phases of the reform, after the collapse of the talks, which were being mediated by the president. of Israel, Isaac Herzog.
Critics of the judicial reform argue that it is an attack on Israel’s balance of powers, fundamentally on the foundations on which democracy is based, since it gives Parliament unusual influence to limit judicial powers.