Ehud Barak blames Binyamin Netanyahu for “the greatest failure in Israel’s history”

IDFFEW ISRAELIS have anything close to Ehud Barak’s experience of operating in . In 2000 he was prime minister and defence minister when the second , or Palestinian uprising, erupted in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Before that he was the commander of the Israel Defence Forces () when Israel carried out its first major pullback from the cities in the Gaza Strip as part of the first Oslo Accords signed in 1993.Read more on the war between Israel and Hamas