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A WARNING ABOUT BARAK

by Bernard J. Shapiro



Now I must talk about Ehud Barak, Israel's Defense Minister. I have watched him run from political personality to personality. I have watched his dance, his sleight of hand. I was, perhaps, too slow to react. What I tell you now is unfortunately the sad truth.



Barak is convinced that his own brilliance is enough to square the circle, to make Israeli Arab peace work.This is a hoax, a delusion. There is no deal that will please the Arabs and preserve the security interests of Israel. No phony peace with Syria is worth abandoning the Golan. Friends, we had seen all this before since Oslo in 1993.



Nothing has changed. The evidence of Arab hostility is documented in 70,000 pages of THE MACCABEAN ONLINE and The Freemanlist analysis.



What we have now is a shell game. You know how the little pea is shuffled from shell to shell and the player must pick the one it is under. Only the con man has removed the pea from the game table in a sleight of hand. There is NO way to win.



I fear that Barak (+ Olmert and Livni) is THAT con man and with a quick sleight of hand the Golan, Yesha Jerusalem and ultimately Israel will disappear. A fait accompli.



So it is time to fight like you never fought before TO SAVE ISRAEL. This is definitely the END GAME of Oslo and as in chess the game is won or lost in the end game.



Bernard J. Shapiro, Chairman and Editor

Freeman Center For Strategic Studies



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DM Barak: Hizbullah is 3x Stronger than Before ’06 War
Cheshvan 26, 5769, 24 November 08 04:57by Hillel Fendel

katyusha rocket

(IsraelNN.com) Defense Minister Ehud Barak says that Hizbullah now has 42,000 rockets that can reach as far south as Ashkelon and the Negev cities of Be’er Sheva and Dimona.

Speaking at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday, Barak said that Hizbullah is "three times stronger than it was before the Second Lebanon War," which took place in the summer of 2006. "Does someone really suggest that we should capture Lebanon again?!" he asked later in the Knesset.

However, at the Committee session, Barak said that Lebanon, where Hizbullah has ensconced itself, had now become a legitimate Israeli target. The “integration of Hizbullah with the country of Lebanon exposes Lebanon and its infrastructures to a deeper Israeli hit in the event of a future conflict,” Barak said.

Shteinitz Blames Olmert, Livni
MK Yuval Shteinitz (Likud) criticized Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni over the weekend for their role in enabling Hizbullah to get stronger. “Their decisions and failures led to an increase in Hizbullah strength and an increase in the threat of rockets and terrorism against Israel,” Shteinitz said.

Only Ten a Month
Defense Minister Barak also spoke in a special Knesset session today, where he tried to rebuff criticism regarding his lack of offensive action against ongoing rocket activity from Gaza. He noted that the incidents of rocket fire had dropped from 500 a month nearly a year ago, to about 10 a month now. “I don’t regret a single day or month of quiet,” said Barak, despite claims that the period of calm was used by Hamas to build up its military capabilities against Israel.

“I was a warrior and an officer,” the former Chief of Staff and Prime Minister said, “and I don’t need anyone to teach me the laws of war and peace and of responsibility. To all those who want war, I say that the war won’t run away and we are not afraid of it - but neither do we run towards it with our eyes closed.”

Saar: 'It's Not Your Past, It's Your Present'
In response, Likud MK Gideon Saar said, “We respect your military past, but it’s your present that we’re crying about.” The calm in the Negev “exists only in your position papers,” Saar said, “but not on the ground.”
Regarding Syria, Barak tried a double-pronged approach: “Syria is aiding Hizbullah and is intimately close with Hizbullah. But… Israel has an interest in removing Syria from the circle of conflict. Our contacts with Syria are a positive development that must be done responsibly, seriously, and precisely.”

The Defense Minister said that Iran “continues to toy with the world and is working with zest to advance its military nuclear program. We are not ruling out any options, and we would advise others the same.”
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