Hebrew → English transcript

Gai Peleg, Shabbat shalom to you, it's rather rare for a journalist to be part of the news items.

How are you?

Look, I'll tell you, I hesitated about coming this evening.

Because I had a sort of feeling, due to the flood of events,

that I was talking about the threats against me, the implications, and my family,

and heaven forbid it would look like I'm seeking sympathy.

And yet I thought, right at the last moment,

that it was precisely important for me to come, because in everything I spoke about all week,

and we talked, I felt there was a major omission.

And the major omission is the context.

Not what happened to me or what the dangers to me are, but what the big plan is.

And I want to describe it here.

Look, the big plan is the Prime Minister's plan

to seize control of the media in Israel by criminal means.

After all, what about all the indictments against him?

Case 4000 is an attempt that partly succeeded

to seize control of the Walla website by criminal means.

And what is Case 2000?

An attempt to seize control of Yedioth Ahronoth through criminal means.

And what is Case 1000, among other things?

His attempt to push the billionaire, together with his friends,

Milchan and Packer, to buy Yedioth Ahronoth.

And when that attempt failed,

through investigations that began in 2016, 2017 and 2018,

so he decided to pull out the 'drawer plan'.

Then the signs went up: "They won't decide,"

when the baseness in him was,

when he took the so-called 'hero' sitting to my right, Amnon Abramovich,

and little old me,

and he branded us as the most terrible of Israel's enemies.

whom he himself called 'modern Nazis',

— Nasrallah and Khamenei.

And what are we witnessing these days?

This plan is very sophisticated and needs to be activated.

On the one hand, Minister Kary is pushing in the legislature

a plan to pass laws that will harm the free press in Israel.

And our defense minister is dismantling Galei Tzahal.

And then they send the thugs, the fringe elements,

to make life miserable for me and my colleagues,

I'm not the only one of my kind; after all, they did similar things

to Amitai Aviyat Glickman of Channel 13.

And who are these people?

It's not that small-time criminal; I won't mention his name,

who lunged at me and threatened me in the presence of police officers, and blocked my car.

Who is this guy?

This man is someone who, in those relevant days,

hugged the Minister of Justice of the State of Israel,

hugged the Minister of National Security of the State of Israel,

hugged the minister Mai Golan, who is suspected of criminal offenses.

He is a man they choose to embrace,

Shteli Gutlabi wants to marry him.

And who is the one who hoisted the sign about me at the stadium?

They brought three signs to three different stadiums,

he is number eight with Ben Gvir,

number 17 on the joint list of him and Smotrich.

And who is the guest of honor who was in the Knesset this week?

A vile, despicable man,

who leveled a blood libel against me.

I don't want to repeat what he said about me.

So he came to the Knesset committee,

the 'For the Child' committee,

a committee of Keti Shitrit from Likud,

as an expert in catching pedophiles,

he was there, and the Knesset Channel,

the public channel, will broadcast these videos.

And then that despicable man,

that a court ruled had fabricated a heinous allegation against me,

and forced him to pay money he wasn't paying

Then he repeated the terrible slander against me,

after the Knesset had given him standing.

This is what they want.

They want us to be afraid,

They want us to go along with the intimidation,

They want journalists to say,

Why should we have to go through the nightmare that Gai Peleg is going through?

This is what they want.

And what we need to say—Dana, one second,

what we need to say,

we will not give up,

and we will not be afraid,

and we will continue working.

And before members of the panel remind me

of the thing that he

I will, of course, say it at the end of my remarks

but it is extremely important

Any violence and any threats against any person

especially against our colleague

are reprehensible

And it's good that the police investigated and arrested the person who threatened

our colleague, Amit Segal.

That's how it should be done.

That's how one should deal with those who threaten.