Attorney General Menachem Mazuz has again “confused the rule of law with the rule of the law enforcement officials,” coalition whip Ze'ev Elkin said in a statement at week's end.
“In a proper government, a senior official who busies himself mostly with unbridled attacks on the minister to whom he reports, and tries to prevent the democratically-elected government from making decisions and determining policy, should have gone home long ago," Likud MK Elkin added.
Outgoing Attorney-General Menachem Mazuz continued his campaign Thursday evening against the proposed splitting of his office into separate positions for the state's chief prosecutor and the legal advisor to the government. Justice Minister Yaakov Ne'eman is a proponent of the change.
During a discussion at Jerusalem's Van Leer Institute on the status of the attorney-general's office, Mazuz said, "I have no doubt that splitting the authorities of the attorney-general will lead to a real weakening of his standing and ability to function, and will lead to politicization of the position."
Surprisingly, opinion pieces by leading journalists in several mainstream publications have recently taken to viciously attacking Mazuz for his stand on the proposed change in the status of the attorney general. Mazuz, for his part, has reportedly been attacking the media as "undemocratic" in closed meetings and musing about ways of regulating it.