972 magazine's daily media roundup: an insiders' attack on defense minister Ehud Barak; Pro-Netanyahu tabloid celebrating the Democratic defeat in the midterms Ahabal (אהבל): Slang (org. Arabic) for a fool, an idiot. It's time to learn a new word: Ahabal. That's the term union leader and Labor strongman Ofer Eini has chosen to describe his party boss, defense minister Ehud Barak. Eini was interviewed for channel 2, and when referring to Barak's latest scandal – his wife's hiring of an illegal immigrant – he said, in what became an instant iconic political moment: "You are a minister. [How are] you…