Indications for membership in the organization
- In examining the indications that the defendant is a member of the Midas organization, the opinion is based on what emerges from his interrogations, the media seized in his possession, as well as previous information about the characteristics of his conduct, which cast content into the following criteria, the combination of which can define the defendant as a member of the Midas organization:
- The defendant claimed to two of his interrogators that he belonged to and saw himself as belonging to the terrorist organization Da'ar'ar, after he had given an oath of allegiance to the organization and its leader.
- The defendant has had an unusual and intensive need for different appeal contents for more than 10 consecutive years, and even more so after the beginning of the Iron Sword War, as described at length above
- The defendant maintained close ties with his friends who supported Da'ar'ar differently in Israel and abroad, including a discourse with a distinct ISIS tone (in terms of terminology and the topics of the conversation), and most notably a discourse he had with one of them about the need to fulfill the oath of allegiance to the Caliph.
- The defendant's confession (repeated to various interrogators) that the incitement Islamic content to which he was exposed led him to radicalize his ideological views, and in the process wished for the death of IDF soldiers.
- 55. The defense argued that a combination of criteria as done by an ISA expert (slang, slang and medastic discourse, extreme consumption, and operative guides) cannot give rise to an offense, since each of them alone is not prohibited and does not constitute a criminal offense.
This argument must be rejected outright.
This is an argument that recycles the claim that the facts of the indictment do not reveal an offense.
The defense's attempt to dismantle every distinction and fact into factors misses the reality in which the defendant has built for himself the identity of a full-fledged "friend."