A WARNING ABOUT BARAK
by Bernard J. Shapiro
Editorial in The Macabean Online (1999)
Now I must talk about Ehud Barak, Israel's new Prime 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 Arafat 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 30,000 pages of Maccabean AND 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 is THAT con man and with a quick sleight of hand the Golan and Yesha 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, editor.
Ya'alon Attacks Barak for Siding with U.S.
Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon attacks Defense Minister Ehud Barak for siding with the U.S. on Iran.
First Publish: Arutz Sheva - 9/12/2012, 10:52 AM
Minister Moshe Ya'alon
Flash 90
Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon attacked Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Tuesday after Barak seemed to side with the United States instead of with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
Earlier, just hours after Netanyahu essentially rebuffed the Obama administration over its refusal to set a “red line” for Iran on its nuclear program, Barak said that the U.S. was Israel's chief ally, and that Israel could rely on Washington.
“We must not forget that the U.S. is Israel's chief ally,” Barak said, adding, “The U.S. and Israel have intimate intelligence relations, and the U.S. is Israel's main supporter in security matters. These relations are based on many years of friendship and shared values between Israel and the American people.”
“Despite the differences, and Israel's freedom to act in a manner to defend itself, we must remember the importance of our relationship with the U.S., and that it must not be harmed,” Barak said.
In response, Ya’alon expressed his full support of Netanyahu’s demands and slammed Barak for “favoring narrow political interests,” as he put it.
“I support the Prime Minister’s request that the U.S. government place clear red lines for the Iranian regime to stop its military nuclear program,” Ya’alon said.
“I'm sorry that the Defense Minister prefers narrow factional and political interests and is not backing this important demand, and is instead choosing to start his campaign at the expense of national interests and on the back of the Prime Minister,” he added.
Barak and Ya’alon are known for their longstanding rivalry and have clashed regularly in the past.
In April, Ya’alon said that Barak should not be allowed to have authority over matters related to Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria. “The Defense Minister is confrontational on the government and the settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria,” Ya’alon said. “All he does is light fires. His mandate for dealing with communities in Judea and Samaria should be revoked and given to ministerial staff. He does not solve problems and does not sign zoning plans.”
A spokesman for Barak’s Independence party responded to Ya’alon’s Tuesday night comments and said, “Based on the record of the two men, Ya'alon will not teach Defense Minister Ehud Barak about national responsibility and about ethics and collegiality.”
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