Defense Minister: Israel needs to recognize the occupation must end http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1164135.html

Israel must recognize that the world will not put up with decades more of Israeli rule over the Palestinian people, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in unusually frank remarks Monday.Barak's comments came against the backdrop of severe friction between the U.S. and Israel's hawkish government over an impasse in peacemaking.The world isn't willing to accept - and we won't change that in 2010 - the expectation that Israel will rule another people for decades more," he said. "It's something that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world."

"The alienation that is developing with the United States is not good for Israel," Barak said during a Memorial Day radio interview. "We have strong ties with the United States, a bond, long-term friendship and strategic partnership. We receive three billion dollars from them each year; we get the best planes in the world from them.""For all these reasons we must act to change things," Barak said, while voicing doubt that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would soon enjoy the same warm ties with the White House as his predecessors did when President George W. Bush was in office.

comment-mind you that barak himself while in power did not care to stop the so called''natural growth-settlements''nor its expansionist policies wich were one and same as methanyahu's...however,now he criticizes nethanyahu's policies and admitts its an occupation...and it cant last forever,well i agree it should end immediatly and you as well as minister bibi should be brougth up on charges and war crimes...