Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak expressed his fears of the imminent demise of Israel before the 80th anniversary of its founding, citing "Jewish history, which states that the Jewish state has not lived for more than 80 years except in two exceptional periods."
In an article in the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, Barak said, "Throughout Jewish history, the Jews have not lived in a state for more than 80 years, except in two periods: the period of King David and the Hasmonean period, and both periods were the beginning of its disintegration in the eighth decade."
He added that the current experience of the Hebrew Zionist state is the third and is now in its eighth decade, and that he fears that the curse of the eighth decade will descend upon it as it was in the previous one.
Barak indicated that they are not the only ones who have been cursed in the eighth decade;
America erupted in a civil war in its eighties, Italy turned into a fascist state in its eighth decade, and Germany turned into a Nazi state in its eighth decade and was the cause of its defeat and division.
Barak added, "Israel is located in a difficult environment that has no mercy for the weak," warning of the dire consequences of underestimating any threat. Political Sovereignty".
He also mentioned that "the eighth decade of Israel heralded two cases: the beginning of the disintegration of sovereignty and the existence of the kingdom of the House of David, which was divided into Judea and Israel, and as an entity we have reached the eighth decade and we are as if we are in a storm, in blatant disregard for the warnings of the Talmud."
He pointed out that "the peace agreement with Egypt was a political turning point for Israel, in addition to the destruction of the Iraqi reactor, the Galilee peace war that reached Beirut, the arrival of a million immigrants from Russia, and the peace agreement with Jordan."
He also referred to the withdrawal of the army from Lebanon, the second intifada and Operation Defensive Shield, the disengagement from Gaza, the Second Lebanon War, the destruction of the Syrian reactor, the war on Gaza in 2008, Israel's readiness for an operation against the Iranian nuclear program, the spread of Iron Dome and the second and third Gaza war, adding "On this Independence Day, we are also behind the normalization agreements and the aggression on Gaza in 2021..."
Commenting on Barak's article, which was published in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper last Wednesday, Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib, deputy head of the Islamic movement inside the Green Line, said, "Israel celebrated its 74th independence day at the expense of the catastrophe and displacement of our people. inform him?"
Al-Khatib referred to Barak's fears in 2022, and "the fears of (former Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu, which he expressed in 2017, he said at the time that he was keen for Israel to reach the first centenary, but history tells him that the Jews did not have a state for more than 80 years in each Its history is only once, which is the Hasmonean state.. We are closer to the faraj, so rejoice.”