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Ehud Barak, whose term as an Israeli prime minister was short-lived due to incredible incompetence, has announced he's returning to politics, and forming a new party to run for Knesset:

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.

Well I suppose that's one good thing he'd end up doing, though as mentioned here, Barak's term saw the 2nd intifada take place, which resulted in at least a few people murdered by jihadists, including some army personnel in Ramallah, which makes him a very bad choice to vote for. And at 77 years of age, he's awfully old for the role now, if you ask me.

One of the worst things about his candidacy is that one of his colleagues in the planned new party doesn't rule out forming a government with a bad Arab politician:

Maj. Gen. (res.) Yair Golan, who joined Ehud Barak's fledgling party, says he does not rule out sitting in a cabinet with the Arab parties.

"Anyone who believes in a Jewish and democratic state that accepts minorities with kindness we don't reject him, we reject only those who reject the very existence of the State," Golan said in an interview with Kann Bet on Monday.

After party Chairman Ehud Barak refused to relate directly to the question of whether he would form a government with the Arab parties, Golan was much more forthright: "We'll invite anyone who agrees with the principles I spoke about, including Ayman Odeh. There are twenty percent Arab residents here, do we want to disqualify them? Look at the approach of Ben-Gurion and Eshkol and Rabin and Begin to the Arab population. They had a welcoming attitude. I don't understand why we should take twenty percent of the residents of Israel and make them illegitimate."

Nobody's invalidating them based on racial background. But if their personality is bad and run by awful beliefs like Islam and they're hostile to indigenous Israelis, that's why people like Odeh make bad political partners and Golan's willingness to work with such parties spells bad news.

Barak's past record is truly awful, and anyone who votes for him is only enabling more trouble to take place.

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