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\t\t\t\tBy signing up, you agree to the terms<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe political, populist, fascist committee of inquiry\u2026 would comprise three coalition representatives and three opposition representatives,\u201d Metzger said. \u201cIf the opposition members happen to refuse to take part in this perverse conduct, the three coalition members will act as the committee and probe the crimes they themselves are responsible for.\u201d<\/p>\n \t Also on Saturday evening, Channel 12 reported that the bill is likely to be brought for its first reading in the Knesset this week.<\/p>\n The bill passed a preliminary hearing in December but has been fiercely criticized by the opposition, which has vowed to boycott any commission set up under the terms of the legislation.<\/p>\n The opposition has demanded a state commission of inquiry, which is entirely independent of the government once it is created, but requires a cabinet decision to be established. The government has strongly resisted a state commission, however.<\/p>\n Netanyahu and other cabinet ministers have claimed in public that a commission appointed by Supreme Court President Isaac Amit would not have the trust of the general public. The government has not, however, made this argument during hearings over petitions in the High Court of Justice demanding a state commission, arguing simply that only the government has the authority to establish a state commission.<\/p>\n \u2018The fire in me burns hotter than the flames of hell\u2019<\/p>\n Another speaker at Saturday\u2019s anti-government protest was Eran Littman, whose daughter Oriya<\/a> was killed in the Hamas massacre at the Nova music festival, and who said the 26-year-old was \u201cmurdered because of a war of religion.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHamas\u2019s Muslim fanatics murdered her,\u201d while letters left behind from slain Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar show \u201cthe damage that Jewish fanatics did to Muslim holy places triggered the unending war,\u201d Littman claimed.<\/p>\n He expressed derision toward the Haredi effort to pass a quasi-constitutional Basic Law equating the privileges of draft-evading yeshiva students to those of Israelis who perform mandatory military service.<\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t you dare tell me learning Torah protects us,\u201d he said. \u201cAnyone who dares say that next to me, I\u2019ll take them six feet under so they can say that to my Oriya.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe fire in me burns hotter than the flames of hell,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \t He noted ahead of these comments that his daughter\u2019s body had been retrieved by four Haredi volunteers with the ZAKA service who are \u201cno less heroic than any commando.\u201d Littman\u2019s tirade was aimed at the government, not the volunteers, whom he has since befriended, he said.<\/p>\n As he spoke, police entered the crowd to break up a shouting match between pro-government activist Hadar Muchtar, who tried to get footage from the protest, and a would-be anti-government influencer who tried to shout her down.<\/p>\n Both were escorted aside, and police took their respective versions before letting them go.<\/p>\n Before the rally, some protesters had marched from nearby Rabin Square, holding signs with varying anti-government messages, including anti-war and anti-occupation slogans, campaign messages for opposition parties and calls for the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into October 7.<\/p>\n \u201cThe members of the massacre government have their backs against the wall today,\u201d anti-government protest leader Shikma Bressler said in a speech before the main rally. \u201cThey see the polls, and they know what their part is in the great disaster that happened to us and in the great deterioration of the status of the State of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n Several other demonstrations were held at other locations across the country, including Haifa, Jerusalem, Beersheba and Afula.<\/p>\n
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