Barak coming back?

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By Stan Goodenough
December 31, 2006

Ehud Barak, Israel’s prime minister from 1999 to 2001, and notorious for offering unprecedented concessions to the Palestinian Arabs, is preparing to make a comeback.

Sunday saw Barak launch his bid for the leadership of the Labor Party. He will be contending against incumbent Amir Peretz (Defense Minister in current government), and against Knesset members Ami Ayalon, Ophir Pines-Paz and Danny Yatom.

During his tenure, Barak pulled Israel unilaterally out of southern Lebanon, paving the way for the war the Jewish state had to fight against the Hizb’allah last July.

In 2000, at Camp David, Barak also put great chunks of Israel – 100 percent of the Gaza Strip, 97 percent of Judea and Samaria, the Old City of Jerusalem including the Temple Mount – on the table for PLO terror chief Yasser Arafat to take.

Arafat refused and instead launched the Oslo War (2nd Intifada) that saw Barak run out of office.

Most recent surveys indicate that he would come in second after Ayalon if the Labor race was run today.

The Labor Party itself, which took a hammering during last year’s elections and many of whose members left to join the relatively new Kadima Party, is not presently seen as a serious contender to lead the next government.

The Likud Party and its leader, former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, heads up the polls for that place today.

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