In an unusual move, a private individual, a former IDF soldier, filed a libel suit on Wednesday against Democrats Party chairman Yair Golan over his outrageous statements he made on Tuesday, including that “a sane country does not kill babies as a hobby,” Yisrael Hayom reported on Wednesday. The man behind the lawsuit is Roni Golan, a resident of Tel Mond, a former paratrooper and a father of IDF soldiers. “As a father of soldiers, I didn’t sleep all night, especially since one of my soldiers was hit by three RPGs and survived by a neis,” he explained. “I decided to prepare a statement of claim and submit it myself, without involving, chalilah, any political or legal factor.” Golan is suing the former major general for 38,900 shekels in the Kfar Saba small claims court. “The lawsuit is filed in good faith and out of immense pain,” he wrote. “The plaintiff is an ordinary citizen, a reserve paratroops soldier and commander, and serves as a voice and platform for all those who cannot make their voices openly heard.” Golan clarified that the purpose of the lawsuit is “first and foremost” to urge the Attorney General and the State Attorney’s Office to open a criminal investigation and file an indictment against Yair Golan. “All IDF soldiers and security forces heroes are at risk of being  arrested anywhere in the world on malicious allegations of war crimes, and the defendant, as a major general in the IDF, contributes to false evidence and to helping our enemies and those who seek our harm to file an indictment for war crimes for no wrong done.” “The defendant endangered and endangers all the soldiers and  war heroes, and the only risk that the defendant took was a calculated risk in order to strengthen himself and his political power, and to speak to his base and nothing more, and all this, as mentioned, on the wounded and bleeding back of the State of Israel, on its brave soldiers.” He noted that Golan did not bring a shred of evidence for his claims, “and slandered all the IDF soldiers and the State of Israel in particular.” Golan wrote that he is filing the lawsuit on behalf of “the security forces who cannot defend themselves, their uniforms, and their good names. This lawsuit is also filed on behalf of the fallen heroic IDF soldiers, who gave their lives for the security and defense of the homeland, and cannot defend themselves and protect their good names, and on behalf of all the dear bereaved families of the war’s fallen, who sacrificed what was most precious to them.” (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)