Barak: "The Iranian response to our attack won’t be 50,000 dead, nor 5,000, not even 500 if people would just stay inside their homes!"

"...Amnon Abramovitch, the respected political correspondent of Israel’s Channel 2 news, reports this story in Yediot Achronot (not available online).  But he precedes it with a recitation of a long list of errors, disasters and miscalculations credited to either Bibi or Barak while each was prime minister: including the second Intifada, the 2000 withdrawal from Lebanon, the failed assassination of Khaled Meshal, the Mavi Marmara massacre, the only cancelled IDF chief of staff nomination in Israeli history, failed negotiations with Syria, etc.

He quotes an especially outrageous recent claim by Barak:

'... The Iranian response to our attack won’t be 50,000 dead, nor 5,000, not even 500 if people would just stay inside their homes....'

The journalist asks, with more than a hint of sarcasm, what if the war between Israel doesn’t even last as long as the eight years of the Iran-Iraq war; what if, say, it only last two or three years.  Are we not supposed to leave our homes the whole time?

The message is clear: these are the “adults” whom Israel has chosen to lead them into this war with Iran.  ..."