Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is “trying to make Israel a dictatorship”, according to the country’s former leader Ehud Barak, in a scathing attack on the man he served in the cabinet.
“It’s the most serious crisis we’ve had in Israel in the last 75 years,” said Barak, who was Israeli prime minister from 1999 to 2001, at an event organized by London think tank Chatham House.
“It is a threat to our democracy and our way of life.”
Barak replaced Netanyahu as Israel’s leader and later served as its defense minister for four years. But he has lashed out at his former boss’s new right-wing government, saying it “acts flagrantly illegitimately in what he is doing”.
“We are defending democracy against those who are using the very tools that democracy offers and the very freedom it grants its citizens to destroy it from within,” Barak said.
“We call this top-down regime change. They are trying to make Israel a dictatorship. We will not accept it. This will not fit with our core values and collective psyche.”
His intervention came as protests and strikes swept the country amid an outpouring of anger over Netanyahu’s efforts to weaken the judiciary.
Source: CNN Brasil
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