-Caveat Lector- A Commanding Presence: Ehud Barak Well Ehud Barak is an assassin as this story portrays him for what he is - a reproduction of Ehud in Judges in the bible whose sneak attack against Eglon, resulted in a dagger being struck into his stomach - a present from God, said Ehud. This story is very interesting- Barak, charter member of the Elitist Group called Ashkenazi Jews who are of European descent and Zionist - whom Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia warned were the real trouble makers in the holy land who would not let the domestic real jews and arabs, both semites, live in peace ......then, the father of the young Prince was murdered and the brother placed upon the Saudi throne - today Osama bin Laden tries to restore rightful heir to throne which was at that time Prince Turki Faisal..... So this Ehud Barak fits the description of - beware of those who say they are jews and are not......Ashkenazi Jew....there is also a Kenaz mentioned in Judges associated with murder of the King as I recall....my my the story is so similar, and even some of the names in over 2,000 years, have not changed a bit have they - but then Gideon and his 300 - well they took the golden earrings of their prey - who were the Ishmalites but they never got that oil, did they. This is interesting story of who and what Ehud the Assassin really is - this man who dressed like a woman, and crossed a border line and murdered 3 PLO leaders in Beruit......none dare call this murder? Barak was a heartbeat away from Rabin? Saba MAN IN THE NEWS A Commanding Presence: Ehud Barak (New York Times, May 18, 1999) By WILLIAM A. ORME Jr. JERUSALEM -- The man who was elected prime minister of Israel on Monday is accustomed to being in command: Ehud Barak, 57, left the military just four years ago, after a beribboned 36-year career as platoon leader, tank-battalion chief, senior intelligence analyst and, from 1991 to 1995, head of the Israeli Army general staff. In a breathtakingly rapid political ascent, the freshly retired lieutenant general was appointed interior minister in the Labor government led by Yitzhak Rabin. After Rabin's assassination in 1995, Barak became foreign minister under Shimon Peres. In 1997, with the dust barely brushed off his epaulets, he seized control of the Labor Party in the aftermath of Peres' loss to Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996. As his television advertisements relentlessly reminded Israeli voters, Barak is the most decorated soldier in the country's history. The late Rabin, another general-turned-politician, was said to have remarked long ago that if Barak did not one day become chief of staff, "there is something wrong with the system." His most celebrated military exploit -- the 1972 storming of a Sabena airliner hijacked by Palestinian guerrillas at Tel Aviv's airport -- is seen in retrospect as a classic Barak operation in its meticulous planning and precise execution. All 97 hostages were freed. The elite antiterror unit he commanded, the Sayeret Matkal, included Netanyahu. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Burnishing his reputation, Barak crossed into Lebanon a year later disguised as a woman on a mission in which three leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization were assassinated in their Beirut hideout. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ But like many career military officers, Barak is not a man of bravado, associates say, but of "extraordinary caution," methodically assessing input from many sources before making irrevocable decisions. He approached the election campaign not like a former commando, they say, but like the Stanford-trained systems analyst that he also is. Stung by Labor's one-point defeat in 1996, when he served as campaign manager, Barak attributed the loss not to Netanyahu's hard-line nationalism or television skills, but to Labor's strategic mistakes and organizational oversights. As the Labor Party leader, Barak rebuilt a grass-roots get-out-the-vote machine, while recruiting high-priced American pollsters and media consultants. Barak graduated with a degree in physics and mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1968, and received a master's in economic engineering systems from Stanford University a decade later. But as a schoolchild, his former classmates report, he was considered a bit dreamy, renowned more for his skill as a lockpicker than for his academic prowess. A charter member of Israel's Ashkenazi elite, Barak is the child of Zionist pioneers. He was born in Feb. 12, 1942, in a kibbutz his immigrant parents helped found in the remote Heffer valley, near the Lebanese border. The family drama was typical of early Zionist settlers: His father and uncle, after witnessing their parents' killing by Cossacks in Lithuania, had fled to what was then British-run Palestine as teen-agers, with little money and no local family or friends, hoping to build a new life and a new Jewish nation. Barak first met his wife, Nava, a teacher, while both were serving in the Army. They have been married for 30 years and have three daughters, and now live in Kochav Yair, a Tel Aviv suburb. By birth alone, Barak would qualify as the quintessential sabra, the native-born Israeli of legend. But like the cactus fruit for which they are named, second-generation Israelis are supposed to be prickly on the outside and sweet on the inside. Barak is neither. His bland, controlled demeanor is said by aides and rivals alike to mask fierce competitiveness and intellectual rigor, even arrogance. Until the final weeks of the campaign, Barak was viewed primarily in contrast to the sharply defined images of his rivals and predecessors: Shimon Peres, the "New Middle East" visionary; Benjamin Netanyahu, the "Greater Israel" ideologue; and Yitzhak Rabin, the slain warrior-turned-peacemaker. Still, telling aspects of his character came gradually into focus: the tinkerer who likes to dismantle and rebuild fine clocks, the pianist who practices finger runs on his desk during political briefings, the jaded consumer of military intelligence who inspects ostensibly neutral data for hidden bias. More important, as he emphasized his desire to revive negotiations with the Palestinians, Israelis were reminded of Barak's personal commitment to the peace effort. In 1994, as Army Chief of Staff under Rabin, he supervised the first troop withdrawals from Jericho and the Gaza Strip, and played what he proudly recalls as a pivotal role in securing a peace treaty with Jordan. In one of his few memorable speeches as an opposition leader, Barak praised Netanyahu's further withdrawal from Hebron in 1997, saying Israelis must "free ourselves of the burden of ruling the Palestinians, who have been residents of this land for hundreds of years." Back to IDREL My Note: Warrior turned Statesman? How about assassin wearing old sheep skin which does not fool me - for a leopard does not change his spots......this man was a hired gun (or did he use a foot long dagger to kill those 3 PLO members in Beruit a crime for which he was not charged?_ REMEMBER THE USS LIBERTY ALWAYS AND THE USS COLE ...... Maybe Barak send in agents in disguise dressed as women? A. Saba Dare To Call It Conspiracy A. 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