Bibi Netanyahu's Fig-Leaf

Published April 1, 2009

"I am not afraid of Bibi (Netanyahu). I will not be anybody's fig-leaf," said Ehud Barak, leader of Israel's Labour Party, defending his decision to join the hard-right coalition government being formed by Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu. But off in the distance there was a curious whirring noise.

The sound was identified by Ophir Pines-Paz, a prominent Knesset member who is on the left of the Labour...

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