Likud minister dismisses AG’s criticism of governmental October 7 inquiry

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi dismisses Attorney General Bahara-Miara’s sharp criticism of the coalition’s plan to establish a government commission of inquiry into the October 7 attack rather than a state commission.

“We won’t allow the ousted attorney general and her circle to evade a commission of inquiry,” Karhi writes on X, implying that the justice system will be a target of the nascent probe.

“The wording of the mandate frightens them, and a commission that is not under their control drives them mad,” the Likud minister adds.

The government has tried to fire Baharav-Miara but the High Court ruled that the dismissal process was not legal, and she has remained in her role, to the dismay of Karhi and his allies.

Karhi suggested that there will only be “justice” through the coalition’s own inquiry, despite Baharav-Miara’s “objections and fury.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to head the panel which will establish the parameters of the proposed government inquest — rather than a state commission of inquiry. He has argued that the latter would lack public buy-in and be seen as politically biased despite its independence from the government.

Critics have accused the premier of trying to “whitewash” his responsibility for the failures leading up to and during the savage terrorist assault and atrocities, the deadliest attack in Israel’s history.