A 2020 video reveals the ex-Israeli premier’s “master plan”
to take power, according to Israeli Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distel
Atbaryan.
Israel’s Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distel Atbaryan
(Likud) on Friday exposed what she claimed was the plan of former prime
minister Ehud Barak to bring down the government.
In the Twitter post, the Likud lawmaker describes an
interview with Barak from July 2020 on Forum 555, a group of retired pilots and
navigators.
In the interview, Barak detailed his “master plan” for
creating civil unrest in a future coalition, she said, such as the one
currently being led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which since the start
of the year has faced unrelenting opposition to its judicial reform initiative.
Atbaryan summarized the interview, which she reminded
readers occurred a few years before the current right-wing and religious
coalition took power and began its push to reform the judicial branch.
The plan, she said, included deliberately inflaming the
civilian population, creating a false representation of a danger to democracy,
and bankrolling protests, including purchasing flags.
Asked during the interview about a possible reprise of the
“success of 1999,” when he was elected prime minister, Barak said, “A friend of
mine, a historian, once told me, ‘Ehud, they will call you when bodies are
floating in the Yarkon River.’ I wish to stress: not the bodies of illegally
residing Palestinians from the territories will be floating, and not Israeli
Arabs. The floating bodies will be of Jews that were killed by Jews.”
He went on to say that should Netanyahu somehow disappear
from the scene, and should Israel’s situation worsen on various fronts, that “I
am more suitable and prepared than any other person in the country to take the
wheel.”
In an address to London-based think tank Chatham House in
March, Barak went into detail regarding how protests could bring down a
government.
The politician said he was sure his side would win “because
I know our people, and we have even empirical evidence for this.”
He referred to the research of professor Erica Chenoweth
and political scientist Maria J. Stephan, who co-authored the 2012 book, “Why
Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict.”
Barak said the two researchers looked at hundreds of civil
protests from 1900 to 2006, and “they found a common denominator”—protests that
succeeded included 3.5% of the population, or roughly 8% of the adult
population, and “tenaciously and persistently” kept up the protests, boycotts
and civil disobedience.
“At the end the government either falls or capitulates,”
said Barak. “We already crossed this number in less than three months so we are
heading in the right direction.”
Barak in a Twitter post published on Friday claimed that
the video interview being shared was incomplete and that it didn’t reveal any
new information. ’ There is nothing new in this ‘fascinating discovery’. I have
repeated this story at least three times live in the past.”
Commenting on the anti-reform protests, renowned attorney
Alan Dershowitz, who believes that “compromise is essential” and is not
right-wing, stated in March that the mass demonstrations in fact have nothing
to do with Israel’s judicial system and are “all about trying to undo the [November 2022]
election, this is all about Netanyahu.”
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