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1. Former PM Ehud Barak

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Thu Oct 12, 2023, 03:41 AM

Oct 2023

did an interview with the BBC this morning. He said the Israeli extremist RightWing's calls to "dismantle and eliminate" Hamas is a huge mistake.

A) Because it's not going to happen. They won't get all of Hamas.

B) The dangerous part is they are falsely raising the expectations within the country's RightWing that Hamas will be wiped out.

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Former PM Ehud Barak T_A Oct 2023 #1

Interesting, I wish I'd caught that. I remember him, he was PM when Clinton was working for peace Rhiannon12866 Oct 2023 #2

BTW T_A Oct 2023 #3