Not learning a lesson: Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, one of the leaders of the protest against Netanyahu, continues to make controversial statements, this time declaring what to do if the legal reform is passed: “If the laws of the dictatorship are implemented, we will be forced to follow the path of nonviolent civil rebellion.”
Ehud Barak, the former prime minister and prominent opponent of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, continued to make inflammatory statements against the government this evening when he called for civil uprisings if the reform of the judicial system passes.
“We are facing a regime coup. We don’t have a constitution, but we have the Declaration of Independence, which determines the basic values of the state and society. The revolution is an assassination of the Declaration of Independence, which will turn Israel into a dictatorship,” Barak claimed at a demonstration in Tel Aviv.
Barak canceled the calls for negotiations at the same time as the legislation continues: “When there is a gun to the forehead, first of all it is removed. Only when the legislation is canceled will it be possible to consider a conversation.”
The former prime minister stated that “if the dictatorship laws are implemented, we will be forced to follow the tradition of Gandhi in India and Martin Luther King in the USA, to follow the path of non-violent civil rebellion.”
This is not the first statement by Barak that has been stirred up. At the end of the week, the Likud party filed a complaint with the police against Barak, claiming that he incited violence and called for civil unrest and refused an order, after a series of his statements.