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Ehud Barak, Israel’s seemingly discredited former prime minister and current defense minister, seems ready to steer Israel toward yet another destructive fad. First it was making peace with terrorists—an idea still popular in the Israeli government though less so among the public. Then it was the separation fence that would hermetically seal Israel from the violent Middle East.

Now—with missiles’ ability to surmount a fence constantly and graphically on display in the Gaza arena—it’s missile defense, another supposed cure-all that Barak is already pushing.

Barak is described in the Israeli press as now believing Israel can withdraw from the West Bank in three to five years. By that time it can “develop and deploy an effective anti-missile system . . . capable of intercepting anything from Iran’s long-range Shihab-3 missile to the short-range, relatively primitive Palestinian Qassams.”

Wiesenthal Centre to Belarus President: "Condemn and Take Measures Against Minsk 'Orthodox Initiative' Dissemination of Antisemitic Publications"

In a letter to Belarus President, Mr Alexander Lukashenko, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Director for International Relations, Dr Shimon Samuels, noted that, as part of a tour of Former Soviet Union World War Two extermination sites and memorials, he last week visited the Minsk Museum of the Great Patriotic War, "which vividly describes the mass murder of Jews and Belarussians by the Nazis and their collaborators."