AHARON BARAK, 'LEGAL BUCCANEER': Barak has written a book, but Six Kids and a Full Time Blog thinks the review of the book by Richard Posner stands on its own--for what it reveals about Barak's manipulation of the system.

Maybe so, but Posner does not condemn Barak for it. On the contrary, Posner writes:

Israel is an immature democracy, poorly governed; its political class is mediocre and corrupt; it floats precariously in a lethally hostile Muslim sea; and it really could use a constitution. Barak stepped into a political and legal vacuum, and with dash and ingenuity orchestrated a series of (in Laurence Tribe's words on the dust jacket) "surprisingly agreeable outcomes." He was a legal buccaneer, and maybe that was what Israel needed. [emphasis added]

Really?

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