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The two last men to serve as Benjamin Netanyahu's defence ministers, Ehud Barak and Moshe Yaalon, have delivered a series of stinging speeches and interviews in which they attack the prime minister's leadership and the extreme direction in which they claim he has taken Likud.
Besides the obvious question of why these two ex-generals had nothing to say while serving as Mr Netanyahu's right-hand men, it is unclear whether their uncoordinated attacks will have any political implications.
Mr Barak has said he is not planning a return to politics. Even if he was, it is hard to see which party, if any, he would lead. He seems content as a private businessman, emerging once in a while as a prophet of doom.
Mr Yaalon, on the other hand, since his resignation last month, has said he plans to "run for leadership". But how? He is still nominally a Likud member, but Mr Netanyahu has already secured the party's nomination as its candidate in the next elections, whenever they take place, so his only option is to run in another existing, or new, party.
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