Non-Jewish backed media reports: "Israel on Tuesday threatened to pull out of a UN probe into its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla to keep the panel from grilling its soldiers" I guess the next step is to create a diversion with the "piece" process. Nice move Barak! The Israeli people are going to hate you for even suggesting this. Good luck. I hope you're not assassinated like Rabin.

take away the faux pretext of anti-semites and they'll just replace it with something/anything else.

peace talks have confused our friends and incited our enemies into more active roll into delegitimization of our existence. In other words peace talks and peace process has only hurt Israel. The most obvious is the Gaza expulsion. Even after the removal of Jewish residents the world has only yawned at rocket attacks against us and roared with fury at our attempt to stop those attacks; twice now.

Barak was not voted for. Why does he have so much power?

Good job, Ehud. As always, down on your knees begging for some piece of paper from your Arab neighbors that reads Peace. Why don't you just quit instead of trying to sell your People and your Homeland to the Wolves and Hyenas?

Peace or no peace, Islamist-Jihadism will continue till the end time. Islam does not know peace. To them, there is no such thing as peace. What the West thinks of peace, Islam views it as a truce. Peace to the Islamist-Jihadists will be the chopping off of Israel. And what kind of peace is this to Israel? It is getting Israel smaller and less secure and easier to bombard with smaller rockets to terrorize the nation and make the people leave Israel, leading to the destruction of Israel. Barak's peace view is simplistic and will endanger Israel in the long term. For Israel to survive, Israel must remain strong, united and resolute against the dark forces. This is Israel's deterrence against the wolves and tigers of the region. A lesser country would have been destroyed a long time ago. Israel remains because of GOD'S Mercy and Protection. Know the GOD of Israel and the Land of Israel and you will prevail against your enemies led by Lucifer.

Ehud Barak WANTS TO APPEASE THE INSATIABLE WORLD COMMUNITY WITH MORE SURRENDER AND RETREAT. BARAK is a fool ! ..or does he own a condo in Boca Raton Florida ? The peace process is the World's way of erasing Israel. The more you give the more they take. They require nothing from the muslimPalestinians for peace only the Jews are squeezed and Barak wants to give them more. How did israel get such idiots for leaders ?

The "piece process" is just a tool to destroy us If baraks still does NOT get it,he should resign !

barak should be dismissed immediately for saying enter peace talks to get world off our back. he is much an appeaser as olmert. You enter peace talks because it is good for israel, not because world is against israel. World is against israel and peace talks will only invite more concessions. barak has not learned. He has been a disaster as Pm, now defense minister. he did not fess up to paintballs which got idf soldiers nearly lynched, second time since ramallah and actually 3 rd time considering lebanese sniper. barak-get out. Replace him with yaalon.

"Peace" not "talks" will get the world off your back. 1967 borders, and voting rights in national elections, 2 States, 1 Country, Palestine Israel.

..with this pathetic gov't. Their policy of appeasement all the time is worrying. Arabs only understand strength,force,anything else is seen as weakness. I am afraid that they will eventually apologise to Turkey,cave in on the flotilla nonsense...and btw barak..nothing you do will get the world off your back,so you should insert some backbone in said back and show some guts. Whatever happened to the Israel of days gone by?

The man's a fool! Peace talks with whom exactly?? The puppet head of the PA will either be shot or replaced by Hamas at the first elections. Obama is not interested in Israel and neither is Europe. And the arab states are not interested in the plight of the Palestinians, had they cared they would have rehabilitated them years ago. All they want is martyrs for their cause of Jihad. Who are you trying to fool? Also Israeli politics is a filthy business - the Zionist ideology is long gone and buried

i can't believe these comments! has israeli and jewish society really shifted so radically that no one even believes peace is a worthy cause? all i see here are islamophobic and racist ranting. when you actually talk to some real palestinians face to face, you will find that nearly all west bank residents respect israel and simply want to realize their right to live normal lives just like us jewish israelis do. if you are not pro-peace you are not pro-israel. if you are not pro-peace you are not living according to jewish, christian, or muslim values. how dare you dismiss peace in the name of god.

DO THEY NEVER LEARN THOSE SELFDECEIVED LEFTIST PARADISE THIEVES. "The key for changing Israel's legitimacy, and the ability to get the world off our back, is to restart a comprehensive peace process, to utilize the chance to reach agreements to the fullest, particularly with the Palestinians, despite the difficult price," he said. THIS WILL OPEN PANDORS BOX FOR THE SHIA-ISLAMIC AL-MAHDI, TO ENTER THE PROMISED LAND, AND THE COMING TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM - DAN.CHAP.11:21-12:13. The defense minister explained that "Israel's situation will be completely different if it is perceived as a country operating firmly and ready to make decisions. This is almost the only thing that can change Israel's situation." THE MESSIAH COMES FOR ISRAELS RESCUE, FROM A FALSE PEACE Joel 3 10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am strong." 11Assemble yourselves and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about; thither cause Thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. 12"Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. 13Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, get you down; for the press is full, the vats overflow--for their wickedness is great!" 14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision; for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. 15The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. 16The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake; but the LORD will be the hope of His people, and the strength of the children of Israel. Zechariah 12 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him: 2"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. 3And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people. All who burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. Zechariah 14 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. 2For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished. And half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3Then shall the LORD go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle. 4And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWSATpx7uzk Arn.

dann wrote on an article on barak which is revealing as lots of israelis still have the image of barak as a superwar hero.The article showed a consistent pattern of poor judgements whether rushed withdrawal from lebanon, running away from a serious training accident, not responding to terror on the west bank, stopping short in gaza before israel made a dent, and now paintball guns in the mediterraneaan waters. When sharon defeated barak in 2001, the israelis had said to barak, no more. They didn't want him, his empty threats which did zero to impress the arabs, his olmert like concessions which were appeasement pure and simple. He was a disaster. So he shows up with labor which is a meretz party, a party of binational palestine fantasists like ami ayalon, and joins the other ehud olmert who just had his wise choice of peretz, an ignoramus, resign as defense minister. He was only a slight improvement because of his credentials but now has shown himself to be a military equivalent to the greatest coward israel has ever produced -ehud olmert- concessions, world is against us, give in, make peace and world will love us. What a pathetic loser. The world will hate israel even more. What the israel loves most about israeli is its military daring and know how-even the extreme admits it. No, barak leave and let yaalon take over. Its probably time for the governement to reshuffle and lieberman to take over as PM. bibi can be foreign minister, yaalon defense minister, landau strategic affairs minister, livni, ambassador to the United nations, and begin in charge of peace negotiations. barak like olmert should have no input on peace negotiations as he is a congenital appeaser.

As a PM he lost by a lanslide for the same stupid policies, he is advocating now!

Can only say Amen to #6. Can't understand why Barak does not get the boot. Will never forget He was the man who withdrew troups from Lebanon and so betrayed lebanese people to Hezbollah. How could Bibi give him a job?

Peace talks will get the world off of our backs and get the world's hands on our throats. Very clever analysis Mr. Defense Minister

Barak's downfall is not because of lame Leftist ideas like this, but because he keeps selling them despite the fact that they result in quite the opposite. The UN was fully aware of this red line presented by Israel and decided to ignore it. Israel announced this condition several weeks ago. Apparently, the "non-Jewish media" (as you call it) didn't find it worthy to be printed.

Not in the past 60 years has any effort to move towards peace "gotten the world off our backs". Infact, what it did do was embolden our enemies (like YOUR debacle in Lebanon 2000). It caused more demands on Israel and made the State look like it has no faith in itself. Atleast, that's the message of Leftists and Arabs trying to de-legitimize a very legitimate State. Barak - stop playing politics. You SUCK at it. Remain a military man and shut your mouth. Without pity from another party, you HAVE NO real career.

Besides the foreign Leftists and a few instigators, the majority do NOT want a 1-State solution. Recent polls of "Pal" show over 80% wanting their own State, own govt, own infrastructure....but with Jewish money. So I guess it is a 1 State after all....Israel and that "Palestine Welfare State" stick into Israel like a tick.

You fail to recall that Israel has been the one with the highest percentage of citizens calling for peace, and doing so for decades. But the Leftists ilk, like you, are willing to go even further and put your own life on the line for a "hope". Jews aren't that stupid else they never would have survived so long. I thank G-d that your ilk are relatively a new invention. Had you existed in Roman times, Jews would have been just a footnote in history.

Talking to "real palestinians" is pointless...the gov'ts ie:"Hamas/Fatah are the ones that have to be dealt with,not the guy selling kebobs. You "peace at all cost" bleating idiots will be the end of the country you say you live in.

Israel has made a fool of itself before the international probe. Bibi says one thing then blames Barak, revokes his statement, then Barak contradicts it and Levin says she knows better. If those in government cannot get their stories straight then what do they expect? If their claims had any credibility or truth behind them, questioning soildiers would not be an issue or even necessary. The skeletons are coming out and a "peice" agreement is the only way to regain legitamacy in the international forum. Israels PR image is spirallling down hill, some serious ass kissing is required.