Here’s a quote from a recent speech by Ehud Barak:
“Israeli control over from the [Mediterranean] Sea to the Jordan River will definitely either end Israel as a democracy or as a Jewish state. That’s the essence of what we are seeing. We support a Jewish, Zionist, democratic, enlightened, liberal state.”
“The path of “Herzl, Ben-Gurion, and Rabin and Peres and everyone else – Netanyahu has strayed from that. The extreme right has pushed Israel towards the directions which the Talmud has already warned against, with two catastrophes that happened in history as a result of this kind of politics, with false messianism which tries to hasten the End [of Days] and give God a schedule for bringing the Messiah, which amounts to ‘storming the wall’, ‘provoking the nations of the world’ and spreads ‘baseless hatred’.”
“These three Talmudic prohibitions are violated every single day by people wearing kippot and priding themselves on their title of rabbis, but in fact, they falsify and distort Judaism, Zionism and Israelism.”
See the speech context on Arutz Sheva.
We have written about this before.