Guy Peleg against the former Netanyahu insider: "He should have said he is dangerous"

Yoav Horowitz, who served as Chief of Staff and Director General of the Prime Minister's Office, recently appeared before the cameras and was interviewed by Lior Keinan on the program "Shishi" on Channel 13, presenting what he claims happened behind the scenes in the Prime Minister's Office. At the same time, he explained why he decided to join Gadi Eizenkot, chairman of the "Yashar" party.

During the interview, Horowitz spoke about the Prime Minister's conduct and the conversations he held with him: "He used to tell me: 'Yoav, if I am not here, there is nothing here'. There are no boundaries and the personal issue is always before everything. He receives a phone call from home and while walking he turns to me and says: 'Yoav, I have changed my mind. Tell them it is cancelled'", so said the former Netanyahu insider.

Guy Peleg, legal correspondent for News 12 and a broadcaster on the 103FM radio station, addressed in his program this morning (Sunday) the interviews that Yoav Horowitz gave to the television channels, Kan 11, Reshet 13, and Keshet 12:

"I know Yoav Horowitz very superficially. On the face of it, this is one of the best builders of this country. A profile that I wish we would see more of in the public service, in government ministries, and especially in the most important office of all, the Prime Minister's Office. An impressive person, an impressive record, certainly not a shady type of political fixer who was given some coveted job", Peleg complimented the former Netanyahu insider.

Alongside this, the journalist expressed sharp criticism of the former staff member and Director General of the Prime Minister's Office, noting that he should have presented his claims against Netanyahu and his family members years ago and not now, against the backdrop of the approaching elections. "After I went through all this, I admit that I felt uncomfortable when I watched the interview that Yoav Horowitz gave to Yaron Avraham; similar interviews were broadcast on channels 11 and 13. Horowitz served in the office in the most senior positions: Chief of Staff, Director General. Even according to his own testimony, Horowitz was a witness to decision-making patterns that truly endangered the country. Ben Caspit wrote that Horowitz revealed only 5% of the things he witnessed. Other commentators who were certainly briefed as well, wrote similar texts.

How is a principled person who witnessed insane decision-making that directly harms the country's security or the country's clear interests supposed to behave? How is a decent person supposed to act when he knows that the most powerful people in the country, the Prime Minister and his wife, are spreading lies and inciting against a journalist who published the truth?

Let's give Horowitz a break, a break that in real-time he thought he could balance, restrain, prevent a disaster, prevent a catastrophe, be the sane factor in that office. Since he left, four election cycles have taken place here. Can a principled person, and Horowitz is one, remain silent as Horowitz remained silent? What do you think? He says that he arrived every Saturday night at Kaplan and there he waved a flag. There is a statement in that, it cannot be argued with. After all, he was filmed at Kaplan, he was filmed with the flag, filmed at those protests that warned about what might happen here".

At the end of his remarks, Guy Peleg turned to the listeners and expressed great disappointment with the conduct of the former senior official in Netanyahu's office: "Horowitz should not have waved only that flag, Horowitz should have waved another flag as well. To say in a loud voice long ago, years ago, Netanyahu is dangerous to Israel. 'Believe me', Horowitz should have said, 'I know, I was there, I saw'. This Horowitz did not say, certainly not in real-time. Now the suspicion creeps in that in Horowitz's view, Netanyahu is collapsing and wanting to return to centers of power, he chose to speak. For me, it was too late and too weak".