IDF Arrests Lawyer for Exposing Abuse, Calls it 'Internal Matter'
The Israeli military has arrested Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, their top legal advisor, for allegedly leaking classified footage showing soldiers abusing a Palestinian detainee. This isn't just a rogue whistleblower; this is the Military Advocate General , the very lawyer supposed to uphold military law, apparently driven to expose crimes her own system intended to bury. (One might wonder
just how egregious the abuses were to compel such an act.) While the IDF promises an 'internal investigation' into the leak, the decades-long pattern of similar 'internal investigations' into alleged atrocities against Palestinians rarely results in accountability for the abusers, let alone systemic change. Critics (read: everyone with a functioning conscience) might argue that focusing on the
leak, rather than the alleged torture, perfectly illustrates the institutional Rot that enables such behavior in the first place. The 'legal system' seems less interested in justice and more in maintaining plausible deniability for war crimes. How many internal lawyers does it take before the world finally sees the obvious?