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Gaza-Israel conflict: Ehud Barak interview; Part 2 of 2 ISRAEL: INT Ehud Barak (Israeli Prime Minister, 1999-2001) interview SOT Q: I KNOW YOU WANT NETANYAHU GONE / BUT, ISN'T EVERYTHING YOU ARE SAYING IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT HE IS LIKELY TO DO / HE WANTS TO FINISH THE JOB IN GAZA, A WAR IN THE NORTH WITH HEZBOLLAH AND TO PUSH THE IRANIANS BACK - I want to end all of this, he wants probably to continue / I want to end all of this in a way that will give Israel the right satisfying it's objective / our objective basically is to make sure Hamas cannot win over Gaza and cannot threaten Israel from Gaza / but the right attitude to it is to join hands with the Americans, to sit down behind closed door with the Americans and put a plan / Israel suffered in the last six months from strategic paralysing, no strategic decision was made, no single decision but what will happen the morning after / Netanyahu find himself that even the steps that were taken, we pulled out some ten days ago, it was not used as a leverage for the hostages deal / we tripled the amount of humanitarian support, it was not used as a chip in the negotiations with Hamas / so the clumsiness of the strategy, absence of any stategy / the absence of the choice; are we saying yes to Biden and go together with this impressive regional coalition, including the Brits, this coalition should be the focus of what Israel tried to stabilise rather than destroy and join the two extremist messianic ministers in his government Q: THE BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY IS COMING TO ISRAEL, THE GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER IS COMING / DO YOU THINK THESE COUNTRIES HAVE MADE A MISTAKE IN HELPING NETANYAHU / ARE THEY NOW PROPPING HIM UP - I would say the following; I notice in the Americans, probably the same with Cameron and representative of Scholz / it is not done for Netanyahu, they make a separation the people of Israel / Biden is committed to help Israel, he's not committed to Netanyahu, he's not doing it because of h...