Posted on 11/26/2012 2:37:09 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Monday’s resignation of Defense Minister Ehud Barak is another crack in the foundations of the center-left, which has been in a state of denial ever before the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif and other Jewish communities in Gaza and northern Samaria in 2005.
Buoyed by a largely center-left Israeli and foreign media, which have done all but openly campaign against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the Labor and Kadima parties have been grasping a dead limb that props up Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas as a “peace partner.” The center-left parties feed themselves on feeling good over support of the international community to divide Jerusalem and rid Judea and Samaria of Jews.
At the same time, the truth has been oozing out of a package of illusions designed and produced under the Oslo Accords and signed by the Labor government's Peres-Rabin duet.
Every time the Israeli government, whether under Ariel Sharon before he ditched his nationalist policy and formed Kadima, or under Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, let Abbas off the hook on a commitment in the Accords, the United States and media termed it a “good will concession.”
Barak, with his eyes on returning to the chair of Prime Minister Minster he held for only 18 months in 1999-2000 before being dumped as a result of political blindness, happily acceded to the wishes of then-U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and current Secretary Hillary Clinton and the rest of the Obama administration advisers, and bought time by giving Abbas what he wanted.
Barak clutched the “peace process” along with President Barack Obama long after even mainstream media covering the State Dept. saw through the farce of promoting “negotiations” when Abbas’ demands left nothing to be negotiated. .....
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Not lost in translation. one down, plenty to go.
Translation is “hoo ra,” “he’s wicked”.
I always thought his head placement rather extraordinary. Glad he’s gone IF HE IS.
I could read the Hoo Rah, couldn’t read the “He’s wicked.” Todah
I pray that they have their version of General George S. Patton ready to take over.
LLS
Rethink that, Barak is the most decorated soldier in Israel’s history, you’d have him back.
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Now if only OUR “barak” would quit too!
Thanks Eleutheria5. Maybe he’ll start another new party, call it Amidak, and run against Bibi.
Never knew that... but I do not remember him being a very strong leader at all.
LLS
Looks like the media has replaced lawyers as the institutional cancer that needs to be done away with...
He is their George Patton.
They had better use him in that role then. Men like Patton do not come along very often.
LLS
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