1) 1984 - Kav 300 affair - then Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir unsuccessfully attempted to impose the rule of law on the Shin-Bet, and both he and then Shin-Bet Head Avraham Shalom ended up resigning. [xiv]
2) 1995 - PM Rabin assassination - the deep involvement of the Shin-Bet in the assassination was effectively covered up by the judiciary. [xv]
3) 2002 - Discharge of the Shin-Bet from security of the Supreme Court's IT systems - opening the way for unchecked judicial corruption. [xvi]
The latter event is probably the least recognized, although its lasting significance is no lesser than the former two. The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission for the 2013 Periodic Review of Human Rights in Israel by the Human Rights Council of the United Nations detailed evidence of a major transformation in the Israeli justice system in March 2002. The servers of the Supreme Court were removed from the custody of the Clerk of the Court to the custody of a corporation (IBM), and a period of unprecedented corruption of of the Israeli courts has commenced, including massive forgery and falsification of Supreme Court records. [xvii] The submission was incorporated into the UN Professional Staff Report (2013) with the note, "lack of integrity in the electronic record systems of the Supreme Court, the district courts and the detainees' courts in Israel".
In the latest development in the matter, this author filed on June 4, 2014, a "Notice" with Chief Justice Asher Grunis and Shin-Bet Head Yoram Cohen, regarding the ongoing fraud in the IT systems of the Supreme Court. The Notice addressed these two State officers as the ones, who should have held direct responsibility over the safeguard and integrity of the IT systems of the Supreme Court: [xviii] The responsibility of the Chief Justice is self-evident, and as is the case in other nations, the secret service - here the Shin-Bet - has a special division that is charged with the safeguard of State IT systems.
Surprisingly, response was received from the Prime Minister's office, holding direct authority over the Shin-Bet. The response informed this author that the Shin-Bet held no responsibility over the security of the Supreme Court's IT systems. [xix]
The overall plausible explanation for the events from 1984 to the present, is that the judiciary and the Shin-Bet settled their power struggle and turf war with an arrangement, where the judiciary gave up any authority over the Shin-Bet, and the Shin-Bet gave up any authority over the courts' IT systems...
The outcome of such arrangement is massive corruption of government in Israel, including unchecked conduct of the Shin-Bet, particularly vis a vis Palestinians and Arab Israelis - the primary turf of the Shin-Bet, and unchecked corruption of courts, particularly in matters pertaining to corporations and financial institutions (enormous haircuts, bankruptcy cases) - the primary turf of the judiciary. In the process both Israelis and Palestinians are impoverished [xx] and abused. Obviously, such conduct vis a vis Israelis and Palestinians is incomparable, although the underlying corruption, permitting such conduct is the same.
In this context one should recall the 2009 report, authored by US Ambassador to Israel James Cunningham and exposed by Wikileaks, "Israel: Promised Land for organized crime?" [xxi] The report described a process of cooperation or merger of State authorities and organized crime.
The key role of IBM in corruption of the IT systems of the courts of the State of Israel should come as a surprise either. IBM has been implicated in similar conduct in nations around the world. [xxii]
What is surprising in view of all of the above, or maybe not, is the almost universal adoration of the award-winning, Oscar-nominated documentary "The Gate Keepers", [xxiii] which depicted a series of former Shin-Bet heads as educated, enlightened, civil-society and peace oriented individuals... [xxiv] These are the same individuals, who successively controlled an organization that carries out the ruthless oppression of the Palestinian people, suppression of authentic Palestinian leadership, and total surveillance of both Israelis and Palestinians, which makes the NSA look amateurish. With the passage of time, this documentary will no doubt be remembered as a unique propaganda achievement. Perhaps, like the current investigation of the IDF "coup attempt", it is the culmination of deception as an art-form...
UPDATE:
2014-09-12 IDF Cyberwar Unit (8200) soldiers refuse to act to promote oppression of the Palestinians
Regarding total surveillance and oppression in Israel and Palestine: In an open letter, published today by Israeli media, 43 men and women, enlisted soldiers and officers, state that the conduct of Unit 8200 is not aimed at promoting the security of the State of Israel, but to undermine the Palestinian society and to prolong Israeli occupation of Palestine. [1]
However, such conduct is not aimed only at the Palestinian society. The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the UN Human Rights Council showed that veteran senior officers of Unit 8200, who control Comsign LTD, were also central to corruption of the Israeli justice system. [2-3] The submission was incorporated into the final UN Periodic Review Report of Human Rights in Israel (2013) with the note: "Lack of integrity in the electronic record systems of the Supreme Court, the district courts and the detainees courts in Israel".
[1] 2013-09-12 "Wiretaps against Palestinians are wrong, Israeli ex-spies tell Netanyahu", Reuters
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