Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak addressed the upcoming elections, saying, "I am worried that if Netanyahu tries to sabotage the elections, and he might, it's very easy to do that, if he tries - there will be no choice but to drive him out with sticks and stones." Barak told Kan Reshet Bet that Netanyahu could "sabotage" the elections by bombing in Lebanon that would require a response from Hezbollah and Iran, and claimed that Netanyahu "wants a war of attrition because he understands that stopping it means accelerating the trial. It's a day of judgment and reckoning that he doesn't want. Just as he torpedoed parts of the hostage deals, so he torpedoed the possibility of progress in Lebanon."