Tag: Israeli politics

Over the last two months Israel has experienced a subtle reshaping of the top of the governmental pyramid, the offices of the prime minister, defense minister, and foreign minister. In a situation where threats to the state’s continued existence have overwhelmed most other political questions for generations, these three posts have constituted the centers of

Ehud Barak’s surprise exit from the Labor Party along with four senior colleagues had all the hallmarks of one of his famous military operations. Barak the general was always considered a tactical genius; reservations that were expressed about his military achievements lay mostly in the strategic realm. His break with Labor was a most elegant