Barak has depicted Israel’s situation as a “villa in the jungle”. This phrase has become iconic, and according to Haaretz chief editor Aluf Benn, is a sentimentsharedby most Jewish Israelis. Think of it – the “villa in the jungle” notion combines both the “shithole countries” as well as the “Nigerian huts” notion. And Barak gets away with it. Indeed, Barak’s racist incitement against Palestinians is not a one-time slip-of-the-tongue. In an interview with Israeli historian Benny Morris in 2002 in The New York Review of Books, Barak said of Palestinians…. CONTINUE READING
