Former PM Says Israel Is Drifting Toward fascism Under Netanyahu

Former Israeli Prime minister Ehud Barak has said that Israel is drifting toward fascism under Benjamin Netanyahu. He also said that the current government “needs to be brought down.” RT reports: 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. Avigdor Lieberman and Netanyahu 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. Barak described the removal of Ya’alon as a “purge” in an interview with Channel 10 on Friday night and said it “should be a red light for all of us regarding what’s going on in the government.” He said Israel saw a chain of events lately indicating that its government is “infected by seeds of fascism.” It started with the controversial killing by [...]