Ehud Barak in the Jerusalem Post:
We are living in a tough neighborhood. This is not the Midwest, it’s the mideast,” former prime minister Ehud Barak said Friday in an interview on CNN.
Barak said that Hizbullah and Hamas gave the Israeli government no choice but to respond to Lebanese and Palestinian aggression.
Barak added that it was impossible to “live normally” in the region if threats were ignored.
The former prime minister said that it was “in the government’s contract” to protect its citizens from neighboring sovereign [nations]. “No other sovereign nation would have acted any differently,” he continued……