Likud MK Nissim Vaturi on Sunday morning excoriated former prime minister Ehud Barak for his call for a civil rebellion at a protest on Motzei Shabbos.
In an interview with Radio Tzafon 104.5FM, Vaturi said: “In other countries, he would be a candidate for hanging. But Israel is a democratic country so he should go to prison for at least 20 years.”
Vaturi also posted a photo of Barak entering the home of convicted felon Jeffery Epstein:
https://twitter.com/nissimv/status/1667787185427234817?s=20
The Likud party issued a harsh statement against Barak, mentioning his association with Jeffery Epstein: “Barak’s severe words of incitement won’t help his actions in Epstein’s closed rooms to be forgotten…this is the man who purports to be the moral beacon of the left.”
Journalist Berale Crombie commented that when Shai Malka [a former right-wing politician] called to block the streets prior to the Disengagement from Gaza, he was arrested.
“How is it that Ehud Barak who called for civil disobedience hasn’t even been summoned for questioning?” he questioned. “And how is it that Brothers in Arms, who call for blocking the streets, don’t even receive a police warning?”
Likud activist Boris Aplichuk wrote: “As long as Barak walks around a free man – it’s proof that the law enforcement system is complicit in the sedition led by corrupt tycoons. The police leadership is either complicit, or scared. The silence of the Attorney-General and State Prosecutor places them in the ranks of coup conspirators. The Israeli government will have to make difficult decisions because it is simply left with no choice.”
One social media user posted a video of Barak inciting against Netanyahu and claiming the “destruction of democracy” in 2019 – long before the judicial reform plan was even on the table. “We will have to stand in the streets, a million people, a million citizens,” Barak said at the time. “I promise you to be among them and simply stop the destruction of democracy with our bodies.”
Watch Barak speaking at the protest in Haifa:
Barak also called for a civil rebellion in an interview with Channel 12 News:
Barak calling for civil rebellion in 2019:
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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7 Responses
When referring to a form of execution, the word is “hanged,” not “hung.”
Hanged, not hung.
Hang him now.
Barak was a failure as a politician. He couldn’t be reelected when he put himself on the Labor list and lost. He has no followers and no one but the news quotes him, not even his own family.
The situation over here is too ugly even to write or explain it’s beyond earthly and spooky
“In other countries, he would be a candidate for hanging.” What other countries? Iran? North Korea?
Not only should he be tried for treason, so too any soldier who is refusing orders due to politics unrelated to his/her army service: s/he should be court-martialed, brought down to the rank of private, and lose any pension or other benefit accrued due to military service. Anyone refusing to work in air traffic control due to this situation should be permanently fired with no chance of being rehired in the same field for 10 years.