Tag: Ehud Barak
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.
Barak's remarks were made during a six-minute interview, recorded...
Israel declassifies minutes of Cabinet meeting that OK’d first Oslo Accord
Thirty years ago on Aug. 30, 1993, the Israeli government approved the Oslo I Accord. The minutes of the meeting remained "top secret" until Tuesday when the State Archives released them to the public.
What...
Likud calls for criminal charges after Barak compares Netanyahu to Hitler
Israel's ruling Likud Party on Monday denounced former premier Ehud Barak for posting to social media a video that compares Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
"Must watch! Is Netanyahu mentally unfit...
Ehud Barak’s poisonous pyromania
On the days after Tisha B'Av, it would be nice to write about national unity, shared destiny, moderation and restraint. But I cannot ignore the kasach—the unbridled confrontation, the inflammatory demagoguery, the warmongering—that has become...
Long-overdue judicial reform process finally underway
Amid the largest and most well-funded protest movement in Israel’s history, the democratically elected governing coalition passed the first reform in a historic process aimed at bringing Israel’s activist Supreme Court in line with the judicial...
Likud minister says Biden in cahoots with Lapid, Barak
When U.S. President Joe Biden criticizes the Netanyahu government, he does so in cooperation with opposition leader Yair Lapid and former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli said on Tuesday.
"President...
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Israeli police are investigating recent calls by former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and former IDF deputy chief of staff Yair Golan for civil unrest to oppose the coalition’s judicial reform initiative.
The unit to...
Documents detail Ehud Barak’s close relations with Jeffrey Epstein
New documents reveal that leading figures continued to associate with hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein years after he was convicted of sex crimes.
The Wall Street Journal culled through thousands of pages of unreported emails and schedules...
Former Israeli prime minister Barak says Israel has nuclear weapons
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak confirmed on Tuesday that Israel has nuclear weapons, despite Jerusalem having long maintained a policy of “ambiguity” over the matter.
“It sounds delusional to us. But in conversations between...
The bombing of Sbarro’s and why Oslo failed
Next month, Americans will mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The trauma lingers in the memory of everyone who was then alive. But while that day of terror will never be forgotten,...