Netanyahu Picks Ran Baratz to improve Israel’s reputation in the world.
Baratz has accused Barack Obama of anti-Semitism, suggested Israel’s president was not important enough to assassinate and described U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry as having the mental abilities of a 12-year-old.
In a Facebook entry last March, Baratz said Obama’s response to a speech by Netanyahu to the U.S. Congress, during which he criticized the emerging Iran deal, “was what modern anti-Semitism looks like in Western and liberal countries.”
In October last year, Baratz termed as “comical” Kerry’s remarks that said Middle East leaders had told him feelings stirred by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were a factor in Islamic State recruitment. Baratz wrote, “his is the time, then to wish the secretary of state success and count down two years on the calendar with the hope that someone in the State Department will then wake up and begin to see the world through the eyes of a man with a mental age above 12.”
On Facebook, Baratz commented on Israeli President Reuven Rivlin sitting in economy class on a flight “It mainly shows him to be such a marginal figure that there is no concern for his safety. I think he could be sent in a para-glider to the Syrian Golan [Heights] controlled by ISIS. They’ll return him the next day with a request for negotiating their return to Iraq, if only we take him back,”
In response, Daniella Weiss, a Jewish settler leader wrote, “He is not important enough to kill” Baratz replied : “I said that way before she did, but it’s good when practical people confirm the observations of theoreticians”.