Yaakov Peri (illustrative)
Yaakov Peri (illustrative)Flash90

After Yesh Atid Chairman, MK Yair Lapid, held a news conference Sunday in which he blasted Breaking the Silence for its overseas campaign criticizing the IDF, Meretz Head MK Zehava Galon noted in a Facebook post that two of his own party's MKs - Yaakov Peri and Ofer Shelah - are also part of the very same campaign.

"When Yair Lapid says about Breaking the Silence that 'if they really wanted to critique the IDF, they would not be busy traveling abroad and besmirching the IDF and the State of Israel,' he is also mocking his own faction colleague, MK Yaakov Peri, former Head of the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shabak)," Galon noted, since Peri – as a senior participant in the 2012 film 'the Gatekeepers' by Dror Moreh – "spoke courageously about the evils of the Occupation to a foreign film with European financing, which was aired in dozens of festivals abroad."

"Yaakov Peri is more of a silence breaker than all of the members of Breaking the Silence put together," Galon wrote mockingly. "Tell me, Yair, is Yaakov Peri also a traitor? Or is what he did OK because he is in your party?"

Furthermore, Galon noted acerbically that according to Lapid's standards, MK Shelah – a former journalist – is also a liar and a libeler. "Because after Operation Cast Lead, Ofer Shelah broadcasted an entire hour of anonymous testimony by soldiers who told about war crimes they had been a part of, on Channel 10, in prime time."

"Ahh, what a faction of traitors," Galon gloated sarcastically. She added that Shelah's program led to a probe by the Investigative Military Police into the allegations of plunder, abuse and unlawful killing, and speculated that Lapid would rather have Shelah and the soldiers he interviewed keep mum on the matter.