Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak said Benjamin Netanyahu was on borrowed time and would eventually be forced from office.
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak says the Albanese government should feel free to express any reservations about Israel’s war with Hamas, arguing that his nation needs honest friends rather than mindless barrackers.
“At the same time, I would expect you to tell us honestly what you think about it, not to eliminate all reservations,” he said in an interview from his office in Tel Aviv. “We are now at war and know we should be focused, but it is worth hearing the sober observations of friends.” “Somehow we failed in the very contract between the government and its citizens, which is to protect them when they go to bed to sleep at night,” he said.“Netanyahu has totally lost the trust of the people; even his own voters see him as responsible for this blunder.
Barak was a rival to Netanyahu as a leader of Israel’s centre-left Labor Party but served as his defence minister from 2009 to 2013. He is one of the most highly decorated soldiers in the country’s history and served as commander-in-chief of its military from 1991 to 1995.Barak said Netanyahu had sought to prop up Hamas as a way to undermine the more moderate Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and any moves towards the creation of a Palestinian state.
Ehud Barak, then the Israeli prime minister, with US president Bill Clinton and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as they tried and failed to strike a historic peace deal at Camp David in 2000.Those proposing the creation of a single state encompassing the West Bank and Gaza were making a “tragic historic mistake”, Barak said.“Not just because of justice for the Palestinians, as important as that is, but for Israel’s security, its future and its identity.
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