Barak’s Bombshell of not Being able to Attack Iran To Shake up ’Israeli’ Politics

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Former "Israeli" War minister Ehud Barak's comments that the Zionist entity nearly attacked Iran's nuclear facilities but the plan was scuttled by "Israeli" military institution and cowardly politicians is expected to shake up "Israeli" politics.

The leaked interview, in which Barak also described Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as indecisive and obsessively pessimistic, was the talk of the town Sunday in an "Israel" obsessed about Iran.

Barak's interview, leaked Friday to "Israeli" Channel 2 television coincide with the release of a new biography about him.

In the recordings, Barak addressed one of the Zionist entity's deepest secrets - whether "Israel" really was prepared to take military action against Iran's nuclear facilities.

Barak told his interviewer that both he and Netanyahu favored an attack in 2010, but the military chief of staff at the time, Gabi Ashkenazi, said "Israel" did not have the operational capability.

"You can't go to the Cabinet when the chief of staff will go and say ‘Excuse me, I told you no,'" Barak said.

The following year, he said two influential Cabinet ministers had second thoughts and scuttled an attack. Then, in 2012, a joint military exercise with the US and a planned visit by then-US War Secretary Leon Panetta got in the way, he said.

Channel 2 said Barak unsuccessfully tried to prevent it from airing the interview, but that the military censor's office permitted it. There was no comment Sunday from Barak, Netanyahu or Ashkenazi, the former military chief.

Avigdor Lieberman, then-"Israel's" foreign minister, appeared to support Barak's version in an interview with Channel 2. "If a prime minister cannot pass through his Cabinet a decision that he wanted, probably there is a problem," Lieberman said Sunday.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team