Police reform and national-security minister powers

What changed

In Statement A, Lapid demands arrests and prosecutions for those who attacked General Zini in Bnei Brak, criticizing the lack of police enforcement as a sign of a disgraceful government. In Statement B, he condemns an arrest made by that same police force — under the same minister Ben Gvir — as illegitimate and dictatorial overreach. Both statements invoke the same police force under Ben Gvir's command, but Lapid demands more arrests in one case and condemns arrests in another, applying a different standard without acknowledging the tension. This constitutes selective omission: he frames police enforcement as an absolute necessity in one context and as a hallmark of dictatorship in another, without acknowledging that both are actions of the same institution he is simultaneously pressuring and criticizing.