Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Saturday repeated his call for a civil insurrection to topple the Netanyahu government.
“We need to get to a civil insurrection,” said Barak, during an appearance on “Moriah & Berko,” a Channel 13 news show co-hosted by Moriah Ashraf and Eyal Bercovic. Asked to explain what that meant, Barak said he meant hundreds of thousands taking to the streets guided by political, academic, high-tech and market leaders, among others. When Ashraf asked what the limits of the insurrection should be, Barak said, “The limits are the shutdown of the country until the government falls.”
Barak, who served as prime minister from 1999 to 2001, and later as deputy prime minister and minister of defense in a Netanyahu government 2009 to 2013, has become a bitter opponent of the current prime minister. Speaking at an anti-government protest rally in Tel Aviv in July 2024, Barak urged the thousands present to engage in “nonviolent civil noncompliance.” Israeli prosecutors at the time mulled whether to prosecute Barak on charges of incitement and sedition. At a rally in Jerusalem in April of last year, he said that his goal was to use mass protests as a pressure lever to bring about early elections to replace the Netanyahu government.
My message is elections now,” Barak told JNS.
In February, Barak called on the public to “besiege” the parliament in an ultimate attempt to force elections, bring down Netanyahu and implement a two-state solution, which includes a Palestinian state. The former premier told Army Radio that “30,000 citizens need to camp outside the Knesset in tents for three weeks, day and night,” until “the country shuts down [and] Netanyahu realizes that his time is up.” In March 2023, Ehud Barak revealed his strategy for a “counter-revolution” to bring down the Netanyahu government.
Speaking at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a London-based think tank, Barak said he was certain his side would win, adding, “and we have even empirical evidence for this.” He referred to research by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan, who co-authored a 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, noting that “they found a common denominator”—protests that succeeded included 3.5% of the population, or roughly 8% of the adult population that were “tenaciously and persistently” kept up. “At the end the government either falls or capitulates. We already crossed this number in less than three months so we are heading in the right direction,” Barak said, referring to protests against the government’s judicial reform plan.
💥#Breaking: Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak calls for Israelis to revolt against the government– a civilian rebellion in all industrial, commercial, labor and other civil sectors until the Netanyahu government falls. pic.twitter.com/nGwEjQbw64
— Noga Tarnopolsky × ×’×” ×˜×¨× ×•×¤×•×œ×¡×§×™ نوغا ترنوبولسكي (@NTarnopolsky) May 3, 2025
7 comments:
And of course he wants to overthrow the government in the name of democracy.
All Epstein clients are in mortal danger. He should watch his back.
@Garnel,
If the government is “overthrown”democratically via elections inspired by legal civil protests why wouldn’t you consider that an exercise fostering a legal change in government stewardship?
Furthurmore, would there be much change in current Israeli military strategy to completely destroy Hamas? I doubt it.
Hopefully new elections will establish a government that discards the need for the parasitical Chareidi political parties to be part of a governing coalition. I think most Israeli citizens have had enough of their theocratic narcissistic self-worship. No more social welfare payments to permit these chareidi freeloaders to spend their lives in Kollel while other citizens risk their lives and economic future protecting these senseless bench kvetchers.
Uriah's girlfriend,
J Trudeau, the media,& official Ottawa all must disagree with you
cf.Canadian Truckers
On one hand, I agree with much of what you write.
But here's the problem - Barak is calling for a breakdown of society and an end to the enforcement of government authority. In other words, turning Israeli society into chaos (remember his "bodies in the water" comment?) so that the goverment either has to impose martial law or call elections to restore order. That is not the proper thing to do.
Why hasn't this filthy TREASONOUS rabies infected sewer RAT been EXTERMINATED ?
This TRAITOROUS MONSTER,should be dangling by his neck from the gallows
Not all Epstein clients - only the ones who know teef teef the sins of Prince Andrew. They are all expendable to protect the richest people on welfare, uh, I mean the Royal family.
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