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WINSTON MID EAST ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY December 14, 2009 
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THE "POISON DWARF" HAS STRUCK AGAIN
by Emanuel A. Winston,

Freeman Center Middle East Analyst & Commentator

Israel’s Defense Minister Gen.(ret.) Ehud Barak proclaims that the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) should NOT be political, despite the well-known fact that HE owes his entire military career to Labor Left politicos who groomed him for politics all through his military service.

It’s no big secret that Left wing officers are advanced in the incubator of the military’s officers’ corps. Barak may be the worst of the lot, given his well-known hostility to settlers and soldiers who are observant Jews.

Not so strangely, religiously observant soldiers are the first to volunteer and remain steady in the face of battle, even against overwhelming odds. The Generals know this and can rely upon observant soldiers who believe they are fighting for the Jewish Nation/State of Israel and for their families. Most of all, they have faith that G-d is on their side.

By his actions, Barak has shown that he believes in none of this and wishes to use the IDF as his own personal ‘thing’ to drive loyal, patriotic Jews from their homes.

 

His connections to the wishes of the Arabist U.S. State Department and their further appeasement of the Islamist oil nations makes Barak a "Quisling" of the first order.
Regrettably, Barak and Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin (Bibi) Netanyahu have shown that they wish to drive loyal Jews away from the Military, thereby assuring their continued war against the Jews of Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, the Jordan Valley - and even those who have already been driven out of Gush Katif/Gaza.

Bibi either has no control over Barak or he remains silent in coordination with President Barack Hussein Obama’s policy to drive the Jews out of the territories they liberated from Muslim Arab occupation in 1967.
The Israeli citizens’ Army is not an Army of political thugs to obey the experiments of politicians, willing to undermine the safety or even the existence of the Jewish Nation/State to please foreign nations who have only they own interests to care about.

The officers and soldiers should "minimally" demand the removal of Barak as Defense Minister because he is just a politician who cannot be trusted with the safety and future of the nation.
Once again - it’s time for new elections with the goal of cleaning out the accumulated trash that has made the Israeli government a place for imposters posing as loyal patriots. There are a handful of loyal patriotic, hard-working Members of Knesset and the Government but, most are merely there for whatever can be put into their pockets.

Barak has first delivered the Security Cabinet’s ruling to Freeze Construction in Judea and Samaria in the most brutal manner possible. He is also applying it to ALL such construction, when the original decision was "only" for those homes not yet started. This has horrendous impact against all those Jewish citizens who bought their land, got permits, hired their architects, developed their plans, bought equipment but, had not yet broken ground. They must still pay for continued living wherever they are for at least 10 more months IF they are even able to resume building plans after 10 months. Several people have stated their doubts about whether such building will be permitted even then.

These diabolically cruel ‘diktats’ impact those 10,000 Jewish men, women and children who were evicted and uprooted from Gush Katif/Gaza, plus the 4 Northern Samaria communities and are just now - 4½ years later - beginning to build their roots again.

Barak’s latest attack against Israelis and Israel’s security is to declare war on the IDF-linked seminaries. The Hesder Yeshivas who train some of Israel’s best soldiers while also learning at Yeshiva, is being attacked as institutions and for the very idea that a soldier can also be religiously observant. Barak is driving a stake into the unity of the Jewish State of Israel.
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BARAK'S MENTAL STATE – A DANGER TO ISRAEL

By Bernard J. Shapiro

(An editorial in the September 2000 Maccabean Online)

 

The great under-reported story in the Jewish and national media including the Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston) is the continued deterioration of Israel Prime Minister's Ehud Barak's mental state.

 

In the past months Barak has done the following:

 

1. Began the process of ethnic cleansing (a war crime

 under the Geneva Conventions) for Jews from 96% of Judea and Samaria and Gaza.

2. He has offered to give up sovereignty on the Temple Mount and half of Jerusalem to terrorist anti-Semites. Arafat demands also the Old City plus the Western Wall and Barak will give him what he wants as the record proves.

3. Just this week, Barak agreed to give Arafat control of $3 Billion of oil and gas off the coast of Gaza

4. He has agreed to give up the Golan Heights with it strategic mountains and 35% of Israel's water supply, already at drought conditions.

5. He has agreed give Arafat control of the strategic Jordan Valley and the Judean-Samarian mountain ridge that protects Israel from invasion from the east (Syria, Iraq, Iran).

6. He has agreed to turn over the following Jewish Holy places to Arafat's gang of Jew murderers: Tomb of Rachel, Tomb of Jacob, Cave of the Macpala (Tomb of the Patriarchs).

7. Barak has cease governing the country, does not consult with anyone that does not agree with him.

 

There is an obvious psychiatric diagnosis for such behavior: the grandiose phase of mania. People in such mental state take wild gambles with money and behavior. They believe themselves above the law, super intelligent and capable of doing anything. Eventually they crash and burn having lost their fortunes and their health.

 

BARAK IS GAMBLING AWAY THE HERITAGE, LAND AND SECURITY OF ISRAEL. HE MUST BE STOPPED IN A DEMOCRATIC PROCESS IMMEDIATELY.....Bernard

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Read the attached DEBKAfile on what Barak (who some call "The Poison Dwarf" has done in his latest assault against the nation.
Israel's defense minister declares war on IDF-linked seminaries
DEBKAfile Report

December 14, 2009, 11:06 AM (GMT+02:00)
As Israel wrestled with a fateful decision on Iran's nuclear issue and war tensions building up around its borders, defense minister Ehud Barak went to war on the military-yeshiva "Hesder" contract, under which seminary students are conscripted - most volunteering for combat units - along with their studies.

Raising the specter of mutiny in the armed forces, Barak Sunday, Dec. 13, expelled the West Bank Mt. Bracha yeshiva from the contract when its dean, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, refused a summons to a hearing with the minister on charges of inciting student-soldiers to refuse orders affecting the status of Jewish settlements on conscientious grounds.

In refusing the minister's summons, Rabbi Melamed retorted he was not a civil service underling but the head of an academic-religious institution entitled to his opinion. Barak could have demanded his resignation, but opted instead to blacklist the entire institution.

Ideological and political divides on land-for-peace moves run deep in Israel - and not just among the 350,000 Jews living on the West Bank in government-approved towns and villages and unauthorized outposts.
Barak is head of the minority Labor party which strongly advocates these moves, while prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu leads the majority Likud party which is committed to a Land of Israel ideology.

By going too far in his showdown with the yeshiva principal, Barak now stands accused of exacerbating popular divisions and high-handed action to force West Bank communities and the Orthodox seminary network, as well as the armed forces and the government majority to toe his political line.
Right wing spokesmen stress the omission of Barak and the heads of the army to limit the academic freedoms of university professors to express their views, or summon them for hearings, even though some encourage students to dodge compulsory military service altogether, not just disobey certain orders on matters of conscience.

Bibi is blamed for failing to intervene in the dispute, although it was touched off by the construction freeze orders he had circulated to West Bank communities last week. He may hope it will go away and not affect the stability of his government coalition. However tempers on both sides are rising.

In the past two months, six soldiers were given jail sentences and two others punished for demonstrating against potential government orders to evacuate settlements. That is the extent of the "mutiny" so far, but not the end of it unless a cool head starts pouring oil and promoting some sort of dialogue.

The armed forces are still struggling to heal scars left by the national controversy which flared over Ariel Sharon's order to forcefully evict 8,500 Israelis from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank in 2005. This would be a fleeting nightmare compared with any future moves on the West Bank or Golan for a peace, which only Barak and his diminishing band of followers believes in. Nonetheless, the prime minister is giving them their head and allowing them to stir up trouble for no visible purpose.

In a recent lecture at Bar Ilan University, Rabbi Melamed spoke of "[political] corruption in the upper IDF command." He asked if they could be relied upon to sound the necessary alarums for prisoner swap deals, when he said: "Military officers kowtow to the will of politicians, the mass media and dominant public views, which is why they failed to warn of the consequences of the Oslo accord, the retreat from Lebanon and the expulsion."

He was referring to the eruption of Palestinian terror after the peace framework accord signed with the Palestinians in Oslo in 1993, the strengthening of Hezb’Allah's grip on South Lebanon after Israel's retreat in 2006, and the expulsion of Jewish communities from Gaza, which resulted in Hamas' takeover of the territory and disastrous escalation of its missile offensive against southwestern Israel.

While Rabbi Melamed is accused by some as a right-wing extremist, it is worth mentioning that the independent a-political Winograd commission appointed to inquire into the failings of the 2006 Lebanon war, was just as critical, if not more, of the military high command. Many Israelis of diverse political views - or none - feel the same way. Everyone had hoped that the dark Sharon era when citizens in and out of uniform were muzzled and forced into mindless obedience of the "high command" would never return.
But Ehud Barak has been allowed to revert to the high-handedness exhibited by Sharon, although he must realize that it goes sharply against the questioning nature of the average Israeli.

Maybe Netanyahu is giving him enough slack to hang himself, but in the process he is letting the country be dragged far too close to the abyss of disunity.