Reported by Jerusalem Post:
In a column written for Time Magazine, the former prime minister urges Netanyahu to face Israel’s most daunting challenges.
In a column written for Time
magazine’s annual 100 most influential people in the world, former Prime
Minister Ehud Barak offered his thoughts on Israel’s current leader
Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he describes as ” determined, effective and
focused… but over time” has learned to equivocate on the most pressing
issues facing the Jewish State.
“I knew Bibi, decades ago, as a
soldier and young officer under my command facing real fire. He was
determined, effective and focused. Character does not change.
Chickensh-t he is not,” wrote Barak. “But over time, while thoughtful
and an avid reader of history, he developed a mind-set at once
pessimistic, passive and anxious. Benjamin Netanyahu seems to avoid any
initiative. Some say it’s all about surviving in power. I think he is
more complex and nuanced.”
Barak went on to write that Netanyahu
has failed to engage in Israel’s most urgent matters, especially “on
the Palestinian question” in which “he grossly ignores the slippery
slope awaiting Israel in the form of a one-state solution.”
Barak closed his short biographical
accompaniment to the article by touching on the Iranian nuclear issue,
agreeing with Netanyahu’s assessment that the Islamic Republic is a
serious threat to existence of Israel, and urges him to take bolder
action.
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