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‘Israel is drifting toward fascism under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said former Isareli PM Ehud Barak. He added that the current government “needs to be brought down.”
Barak, who led the country for over a decade in the 1990s and later served as defense minister under Ehud Olmert and Benjamin Netanyahu, was commenting on the latest government reshuffle made this week by his former boss.
Netanyahu decided to replace Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon with Avigdor Lieberman, the controversial chair of the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party, instead of forming a coalition with the center-left Zionist Union. Ya’alon resigned Friday both from the government and from the parliament, citing “a lack of faith” in Netanyahu even as the PM reportedly tried to compensate him by offering the job of the foreign minister.’
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