Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Barak launched a fierce attack on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a speech in Tel Aviv on Tuesday saying he must be stopped “in every possible way.”
In his half-hour address at the Eretz Israel Museum Barak complained about steps Netanyahu and his political allies had taken against the legal establishment which he said was being “castrated” in order to enable Netanyahu to avoid prosecution.
He also claimed that by not advancing a diplomatic process with the Palestinians Netanyahu would lead Israel to have a Muslim majority and to no longer be a Jewish state.
“Netanyahu and the extremists who are leading him by his nose have a dangerous and delusional vision that is strongly connected to messianism” Barak said.
The Likud responded that Barak was “the biggest failure in the history of Israel” and that Netanyahu’s party would not help Barak’s effort to seek headlines.
