The serial bungler
Caroline Glick has a list of some of Ehud Barak's blunders since he left the IDF to go into politics.According to sources close to the cabinet, the main advocate for the latest capitulation [on the Gaza 'blockade.' CiJ]was Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Barak is the serial bungler. Ten years ago, he argued that his decision to relinquish Israel's security zone in south Lebanon to Hizbullah guaranteed that Israel would have international legitimacy to really take it to the Iranian proxy army if it dared to attack us after we left.Keeping with that pattern, Ehud Barak has now decided that the way to preserve Jerusalem is to destroy it by allowing illegal 'Palestinian' construction all over the city to prevent its 'Judaization.' So Barak is sitting in Washington basking in the limelight in the White House and at the State Department, all the while ripping Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat for having the audacity to put Jerusalem's long-term interests ahead of the Democrats' 2010 election prospects.
Barak is also the deep strategic thinker who brought us the Palestinian terror war.
Barak promised that if Yasser Arafat rejected his offer at Camp David and so demonstrated that his commitment to destroy the Jewish state trumped his interest in establishing a Palestinian state, that the international community would rally around Israel and we'd have all the international legitimacy we needed to defeat the PA.
And in the lead-up to the Mavi Marmara fiasco, it was reportedly Barak who decided it would be a terrific idea to outfit the naval commandos with paintball guns. Doing so, he promised would convince the Obama administration to support Israel against Hamas.
Israel's defense minister on Tuesday criticized the approval by a Jerusalem planning body for a plan to raze 22 Palestinian homes in the disputed eastern part of the city to make room for an Israeli tourist center, saying it lacked "common sense" and "a sense of timing."There is no time that is a 'good time' to advance Jewish interests in Jerusalem as far as the 'international community' is concerned. And because of that, every time is an equally good time. But this time is a particularly good time, because with midterm elections approaching, the Obama administration cannot afford to get into another major row with Israel. So instead of sending Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton out to attack the Israeli government for Barkat's decision, Obama sends Israel's own Defense Minister, Ehud Barach (Ehud fled).
Ehud Barak is in the United States for talks with the Obama administration and his statement comes after the U.S. State Department criticized the plan to build shops, restaurants, art galleries and a large community center on the site where some say the biblical King David wrote his psalms.
What did Obama promise Barak in return for being his hatchet man? I don't know. But Barak apparently has some expensive tastes like many other corrupt Israeli politicians.
Read the whole thing.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:01 AM
1 Comments:
I don't think Mayor Barkat is going to bow easily to frightened Israeli politicians. Israel should go ahead and build in its own capital. If the Obama Administration doesn't like it, its entitled to its opinion but it should butt its nose out of Israel's domestic affairs.
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