סולברג נגד סנקציות על הנשיא עמית: "לנו הפתרונים, לא לזולתנו"

The Deputy President of the Supreme Court, Justice Noam Solberg , sent a strong letter today (Thursday) to Prof. Moshe Cohen-Elia, in which he opposes the initiative to impose "crippling sanctions" by a foreign government on Supreme Court President Yitzhak Amit and the Legal Advisor to the Prime Minister.

Solberg warns in his letter that turning to international bodies to decide internal Israeli disputes is a dangerous step, and states unequivocally: "We have the solutions, even if they are difficult; not for others ."

At the center of Solberg's remarks is the warning against the loss of sovereignty. He notes that the call for the American administration to impose sanctions "obliges us to recall long-forgotten things," and mentions how the Roman general Pompey's appeal for external help during the Second Temple period "brought about the end of political independence and turned Judea into a Roman protectorate." In doing so, the vice president makes it clear that resolving internal crises through foreign pressure is a recipe for the loss of the independence of the entire country.

Despite the familiar ideological differences between the justices, Solberg comes to the defense of the incumbent president and calls for accuracy in public discourse. He uses the image of the Cha'itz system (identifying a peer as a predator) and warns that "a mistake in identification is a disaster." Solberg emphasizes that while "it is certainly permissible to disagree," the attempt to present the president as an  enemy of the system is fundamentally wrong: "President Yitzhak Amit is not a predator; he is a peer."