is Ehud Barak bringing back his civil revolution?

I anyone thought Ehud Barak was trying to cozy up to the Haredi parties by talking about canceling the entire draft law, he's got another think coming. I thought it was strange at first, considering Barak as Prime Minister way back when in the year 2000 ran a program he called the civil revolution in which he tried to roll back the religious influence on daily life of general Israelis.

Back then it was pretty bad and intense. The religious and Haredi parties saw it as a direct attack on them. The friction was intense, and when ...