Barak calls for Netanyahu’s ouster despite war raging
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak recently laid out his plans to oust the current premier, Benjamin Netanyahu, despite Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Ehud Barak Photo by Gideon Markowicz/TPS on 23 February, 2023
Barak’s remarks were made during a six-minute interview, recorded on Dec. 3, with retired helicopter pilot Guy Poran, 67, the leader of a group of Israeli pilots that organized against Netanyahu in the months before Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. The Jewish Press transcribed the Hebrew-language interview.
Highlights include Barak calling for demonstrators to “separate from the [judicial reform] protest movement” and stating that the movement to topple Netanyahu “must not wait” until the war ends.
Barak also described National Unity Party leader Benny Gantz and member Gadi Eizenkot as agents of the protest movement within the wartime unity government, saying that he believes that they will walk away from the government if there is a clash with the United States or the war with Hamas turns into a “war of attrition.”
“We must act to end Netanyahu’s role now and to expel [National Security Minister Itamer] Ben-Gvir and [Finance Minister Bezalel] Smotrich from the government now, because only in their absence will the conditions be created that could make possible, in coordination with this axis of moderate states, the withdrawal from the Strip and hand it over to a responsible entity,” Barak concluded.
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Although it might seem risky to think of changing senior Knesset members during war, I agree with Barak.
Netanyahu never looks authentic in the role he is playing out, whether he’s with soldiers or the families of hostages, and his speeches, which years ago were strong and stirring, don’t ring true. Something is wrong. And, unfortunately, after so many years of service to the country, he’s weakened as a person – his own moral character – and it shows.
Every word from the most useless and dangerous to the country, PM, Barak, is dripping with bile. He is 100% self-interest, which he mirrors with another failed PM, Olmert and fortunately short-lived PM, Lapid. At a much later date leadership a issues will be looked at. Remember. that Lapid’s unilateral, last day in office, decision, was to share a gas field with Herzbollah.