“The prime minister is bankrupt. The emperor has no clothes. There has never been such a gap between meaningless talk and operational impotence. … [Hamas Gaza commander] Sinwar humiliates Bibi [Netanyahu]. He decides when to fire, when to cease fire, when to renew it. Pathetic.” This was the outspoken reaction by former Prime Minister Ehud Barak to the latest cease-fire with Hamas engineered this week by his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Barak’s diatribe was not surprising. He has long been a strident one-man opposition to Netanyahu in almost daily interviews and taunts on social media against the Netanyahu government in general and Netanyahu specifically.