The New Yorker has a much better article that came out 6 years ago.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/17/the-silent-str...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/17/the-silent-str...
Or that they want to block Barak and his recent attempts to get back into politics. Interesting that the article paints Barak as a conspiracy minded crackpot. (Maybe one has to be a conspiracy theorist in order to survive office politics in Israel).