Can the World Trust Bibi?

Extracts from an interesting interview where Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Global Affairs Editor John Lyons spoke with former Israeli PM Ehud Barak (March 24):

Lyons: Can the world trust Benjamin Netanyahu?

Barak: I don't think that anyone can trust him. So basically he lies to everyone and no one trusts him. Lyons: Just over a year ago, he managed to cobble together the most right-wing coalition Israel's ever seen.

Barak: Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, the two racist messianic guys that seems to be to very strong leverage on Bibi. They want to turn it into a major religious war between Israel and Islam.

Lyons: Are they dangerous?

Barak: Sure, they're dangerous.

(The conversation shifted to Netanyahu allegedly giving more than a billion dollars to Qatar to support Hamas)

Barak: That served Netanyahu who wanted to avoid any discussion of two state solution.

Lyons: So are you saying Benjamin Netanyahu deliberately boosted Hamas to try to prevent a Palestinian state?

Barak: Yeah, sure. He deliberately and systematically even told on record, "whoever wants to avoid the threat of a two-state solution has to support my policy of paying protection money to the Hamas".

Source: The Forever War - ABC News