Did ex-Israel PM Barak slip up on Israel's 'nuclear arsenal'?
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak made a diplomatic slip-up on Tuesday after he appeared to imply in a tweet that Israel possesses nuclear weapons.
While criticising the current Benjamin Netanyahu-led government and its judicial overhaul, Barak on Tuesday: "In conversations between Israelis and Western diplomatic officials, there are deep concerns raised of the possibility that if the coup in Israel succeeds, a messianic dictatorship — that possesses nuclear weapons and fanatically wishes for a confrontation with Islam centered on the Temple Mount (Al-Aqsa mosque complex) — will be established in the heart of the Middle East. In their eyes - it's really scary. Not going to happen."
Barak deleted the tweet after critics of Israel pointed to it as confirmation of Tel Aviv's nuclear arsenal.
— BDS movement (@BDSmovement)
Former PM Ehud Barak admits what the world already knows, Israel has nuclear weapons! He says the West fears that these nukes may fall into the hands of a "messianic dictatorship" that the current far-right Netanyahu government may establish.
Israel has adhered to a policy of ambiguity when it comes to its nuclear sector, though several countries around the world have long suspected that it possesses nuclear weapons.
His tweet followed a concerning message from Yishai Fleisher - a lawmaker from the extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's party - who tweeted earlier this month that the judicial overhaul would pave the way for a "freedom-protecting and God-fearing DAVIDIC MONARCHY" akin to the UAE.
"Secular, liberal uprising"??
— Yishai Fleisher يشاي ישי פליישר 🕎 (@YishaiFleisher)
More like: The old state structures are eroding in favor a process that will eventually lead to a freedom-protecting and God-fearing DAVIDIC MONARCHY
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It's maktub chabibi, you can't stop it, and Mashiach is RECRUITING in Tel Aviv! 😘
Ehud Barak served as prime minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001 and was investigated on several occasions on accusations of illegal campaign financing, bribery. and money laundering.
He is a frequent critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and has accused him of pursuing a "coup d’etat" despite serving as Netanyahu’s defence minister from 2009 to 2013.
Barak has been a leading voice in the protests that have engulfed Israel in opposition to a now-suspended judicial overhaul that would give the government more power over the country's courts.