Israel’s most revered jurist, the former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak says that he fears the government’s latest actions, including efforts to fire the Shin Bet chief and attorney general, are pushing the country to civil war.
Speaking to the Ynet news site about the moves by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Barak says that “the main problem is Israeli society is the eighth front,” a reference to Israel’s battles against Iranian proxies on seven fronts.
“And that’s the severe rift between Israelis and themselves,” he says.
“This rift is deteriorating and in the end, I fear, it will be like a train that goes off the tracks and plunges into a chasm causing a civil war,” he says.
“We have to prevent the tyranny of the majority,” he says.
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