Ehud Barak and the “Fascist Canard”

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TODAY’S BLOG:

It has been fascinating in the last few days to watch the leftist Israeli TV networks trot out former leftist Israeli leaders to condemn the dismissal of Moshe Ya’alon from his post as Defense Minister and Netanyahu’s appointment of Avigdor Lieberman to replace him.

Perhaps foremost among these leaders is former Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ehud Barak who appeared on Israel’s Channel 10 yesterday.

Lest we forget, Barak is the most highly decorated soldier in IDF history; however, that is not what Israelis now remember him for.

We remember him for his disastrous unilateral withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon sixteen years ago (May 24, 2000)–a withdrawal that brought Hezbollah to our door.

We also remember him for the farcical “you go first, no you” Camp David summit with Yasser Arafat and Bill Clinton in the summer of 2000 when Barak offered Arafat every conceivable concession only to be rebuffed. We remember how, after that Arafat rejection, the second intifada erupted leading to more than 1000 dead Israelis.

It was because of the Lebanese and Camp David disasters that Ariel Sharon defeated Barak in the 2001 election. From 2005 until 2013 Barak alternated between trying to gain leadership of the Labor party (he eventually formed a tiny splinter “Independence” party) and being Defense Minister during the 2006 war with Hezbollah (for which he was roundly criticized for his poor perfomance), and later during the endless missile attacks on southern Israel which led to Operation Cast Lead against Hamas.

In recent years, Barak has become even more controversial because of what some describe as shady financial deals which have resulted in his becoming extremely wealthy. Barak apparently generates millions of dollars from giving speeches to organizations and hedge funds, buying and selling real estate, and lobbying international governments.

Interestingly however, through one debacle and deal after another, the “Left” has always exalted Barak as an intellectual.  

And on Channel 10 yesterday, he did his best to play the part.

In a vociferous display of bile, Barak made the following accusation:

“Just like in Italy, Spain, and Germany one hundred years ago, the Israeli government is now infected by the seeds of fascism . . . What has happened is a hostile takeover of the Israeli government by dangerous elements. And it’s just the beginning.”

What were the examples that Barak used to support this outrageous statement?

According to Barak, the appointment of Lieberman as Defense Minister “should be a red light for all of us regarding what’s going on in the government”, and the incident of the Hevron soldier “Ya’alon’s resignation is “the end of a chain that began with the case of the soldier who shot [a wounded Palestinian assailant to death].” In addition, Barak cited the proposed law to extend Israeli labor rights to Israelis and Palestinians living in Judea and Samaria.

Your humble servant finds it difficult to see how the appointment of Lieberman to defense and the shuffling of Ya’alon to the post of Foreign Minister (which Ya’alon rejected) are exemplary of fascism.

Nor is the case of the Hevron soldier who is being tried by a military court for “manslaughter.”*

And since when is it fascism for Israelis and Palestinians to receive labor rights?

In case, Barak has forgotten, this is the definition of fascism (quoted from the Merriam Webster dictionary):

“Fascism is a way of organizing a society in which a government ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government.”

Whatever one may think of Netanyahu, he is certainly not a dictator. And I seriously doubt that Barak can find one Israeli who thinks that Netanyahu controls his or her life. And who can possibly say that Israelis are not allowed to disagree with the government?

Disagreeing with the government is the Israel national pastime.

So, your humble servant suggests that we stop the fascist canard being disseminated by the likes of Ehud Barak, Yair Golan, and Moshe Ya’alon.

* Addendum: 

By the way, Barak’s accusation about the Hevron soldier (not to mention those of Moshe Yal’alon) is absurdly hypocritical.

One of the most famous pictures in Israeli history was that of commando leader Barak shooting the wounded female terrorist leader Dalal Mughrabi to death on the road following the 1978 coastal road massacre in which 37 Israelis were killed.

Good riddance: Ehud Barak finishing off the arch-terrorist Dalal Mughrabi after she led an attack that slaughtered 37 Israelis.

It was this picture that vaulted Ehud Barak to fame in the first place.