Dr. Aryeh Bachrach, head of the Almagor Terror Victims' Association Bereaved Parents' Forum, spoke to Arutz Sheva Thursday about last week's scandal involving former Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who reportedly held covert talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry over the Palestinian Authority (PA)'s statehood bid.
According to Bachrach, the issue is not that Livni wants to replace Binyamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister, but how she went about it.
"The despicable act of Tziporah and [former President Shimon] Peres is the subversive form in which they are trying to change the government," Bachrach said. "The objective here to prevent strengthening the Right through subversion is imbecilic and contemptible."
Bachrach said that Livni is playing down the goal of dividing Israel to form a Palestinian state now, during pre-election fervor, to ensure that Labor can be elected into power.
After the election, he said, "they will anesthetize the people and divide up the country."
"Such a move is taking advantage of democracy to impose anti-democratic moves, so there is a place for and a need to publicize it and warn the people of what they abandon by throwing their lot in with Hatnua - the subversive Hatnua," he said.
Bachrach also opined that, in his view, Labor head Yitzhak Herzog is a "criminal," citing suspicions of him being involved in criminal activities with former Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
"Until proven otherwise - Herzog is a criminal," he said. "There is no fundamental difference between [former Prime Minister Ehud] Olmert, the leaders of Yisrael Beytenu, and Herzog. The latter was just as involved in corruption affairs with Ehud Barak."
"The fact that he was not indicted or convicted of a crime is not because he was innocent, but because he used his right to remain silent," Bachrach continued. "The right to remain silent is a legal right which he is entitled to, but a person who exploits this right should not serve as a member of the sitting government."
"The leader of the people of Israel must come to power with a clean heart and clean hands, not one whose innocence is in doubt," he said. "If the public isn't stupid it will be the judge itself."