Israel’s Ehud Barak Returns to Politics at Head of New Party
- Former PM’s party will run in Israel’s Sept. 17 election
- Its objective is to topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Ehud Barak
Photographer: Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, whose premiership went down in flames with the outbreak of the second Palestinian uprising and the failure of U.S.-led peace talks, is making a political comeback ahead of the Sept. 17 election.
Barak said he’s going to create a new party in an effort to topple the current Israeli leader, Benjamin Netanyahu. Former military chief Benny Gantz, whose new Blue & White bloc received as many parliamentary seats as Netanyahu’s Likud in the April election, warned that Barak will siphon off votes from his camp, the Jerusalem Post reported.