MK (Kadima) Dr. Isaac Ben-Israel, PhD, has come out in a scathing criticism of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, calling him the worst defense minister in the nation�s history. Quoting foreign media sources, the retired IDF major-general stated Barak opposed Israel�s attack against the Syrian nuclear facility.
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�I do not know of a worse defense minister,� stated Ben-Israel, who heads the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee subcommittee dealing with classified matters. In a Shabbos event in Beersheva, he expressed his support for Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni�s bid in the upcoming Kadima Party leadership race.
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�Ehud Barak was presumptuous until the day he was ousted as prime minister,� he told the audience. �He lost his political courage and as a result, today, the Defense Ministry�s policy is to sit idly and do nothing,� he added.
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Aides to the defense minister called the remarks �unfounded�, explaining �no plane, ship or soldier leaves the borders of the state of Israel without the minister�s knowledge and approval�.

(Yechiel Spira � YWN Israel)