The serious accusation made Aug. 17 by former Prime Minister Ehud Barak that the incumbent, Benjamin Netanyahu, had endangered state security, is the latest in a series of remarks he has made over the past two years about the prime minister. Since 2014, he has been warning that the man at the helm of the State of Israel is leading the country to disaster, but this time he took it up a notch: According to Barak, Netanyahu shirked his duty to safeguard Israel’s security interests.
Barak’s latest accusatory harangue, which, as expected, became the talk of the day, was delivered Aug. 17 at a gathering of the Darkenu (Our Way – moderate center) movement in the city of Rishon LeZion. It included all the usual elements: Netanyahu’s actions verge on fascism; that he is responsible for the dangerous deterioration in Israel’s ties with the United States and President Barack Obama; his judgment is questionable; and a quasi-psychological assessment of the prime minister points to pessimism and anxiety.
