For those who suffer from the delusion that there exists a new Ehud Barak, one different from the Prime Minister who ordered the cowardly capitulation by Israel to the Hizbollah in 2000 resulting in 4000 rockets landing on Northern Israel last summer, think again.

As current Minister of Defense in the Olmert junta, and as head of the Israeli Labor party, Barak is still determined that Israel capitulate its way and appease its way to peace.

How do we know?

Consider the statement of strategy written in Haaretz today by Ehud’s senior advisor on Palestinian affairs (No roadblocks, no preventive action).

How to achieve peace, asks the expert?

Well, Israel has to remove all security checkpoints and roadblocks that interfere with the ability of the terrorists to transport bombs, guns and murderers and then it must halt altogether any targeted assassinations of terror leaders. And if it does all that, the Palestinians will be feeling so friendly and grateful to Israel that they will support the moderates in Ramallah and then peace and lemonade will prevail! He adds: “We know that the real reason Israeli citizens are exposed to terrorists is not the non-completion of the fence or the number of roadblocks, but rather the refusal by Jewish settlers and their military-political lobby to allow the full inspection of every vehicle and person entering Israel from the West Bank.” See that? The settlers cause terrorism!

Let us recall that Ehud Barak nearly destroyed Jerusalem in 2000 by trying to turn it over to the barbarians. He almost moved Syrian tanks up to the shores of the Sea of Galilee. This is the same Barak who once claimed that he would be a terrorist if he had been born an Arab.

Meanwhile, more on Barak’s cowardice at: War Clouds over the Golan.

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 aren’t 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.”