Senior Labor Party officials slam Barak for continuing coalition talks

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Good old scumbag and war criminal Ehud Barak. The man whose "Generous Offer" to Arafat turned out to be nothing but a pile of caca-del-toro on closer examination. Barak makes Lieberman look like a straight shooter.

Last update - 02:55 06/03/2009

Senior Labor Party officials slam Barak for continuing coalition talks

By Mazal Mualem

Senior Labor officials harshly criticized party chairman Ehud Barak for continuing coalition negotiations with Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu.

"Ehud Barak is a man who knows no boundaries," one senior official told Haaretz. "He is desperately trying to get into Netanyahu's government and it doesn't matter to him whether Daniel Friedmann is justice minister or not. He needs to stop negotiating with Netanyahu and announce he is taking Labor to the opposition."

Barak had conditioned his entry into the coalition on Friedmann being replaced. Friedmann, a Kadima nominee, has announced he plans to reform the justice system, and is backed by Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu party.

Friedmann's proposals have irked some of Israel's most prominent judicial figures, who have called him a threat to the system and the rule of law.

Over the past few days, an anti-Barak alliance has emerged in the Labor Party, headed by MKs Amir Peretz, Shelly Yachimovich, Ophir Pines-Paz and Eitan Cabel. They oppose Barak's negotiations.

Barak, for his part, has stated he will not heed their demands and will continue negotiating with Netanyahu, adding that if he receives a good offer, he will bring it up for approval by the Labor Party Central Committee.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1069116.html

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1. Yeah. Yasser Arafat was a sweet innocent wooly lamb.

And those nasty Jews were mean to him for no reason.

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2. Does Israeli Intelligence Lie?

All of the suffering in Gaza — indeed, all of the suffering endured by Palestinians under Israeli occupation for the last eight years — could have been avoided if Israel negotiated a peace agreement with Yasser Arafat when it had the chance, in 2001.

What chance? The official Israeli position is that there was no chance, "no partner for peace." That’s what Israeli leaders heard from their Military Intelligence (MI) service in 2000 after the failure of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations at Camp David. Arafat scuttled those talks, MI told the leaders, because he was planning to set off a new round of violence, a second intifada.

Now former top officials of MI say the whole story, painting Arafat as a terrorist out to destroy Israel, was an intentional fiction. That’s the most explosive finding in an investigative http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1053882.html">report just published in Israel’s top newspaper, Ha’aretz, by one of its finest journalists, Akiva Eldar.

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5783

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3. The leader of the Labor party is a scumbag?

Good to know.