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In a recent Haaretz op-ed, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert accuses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right ministers of knowingly steering Israel into an all-out war.
Olmert tells host Haaretz podcast host Allison Kaplan Sommer that for Netanyahu and his far-right ministers, Gaza is only the beginning. They are aiming for “Armageddon, that will make it possible to expel many of the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
Adds Olmert: “A great majority of Palestinians killed in the West Bank (since Oct. 7) were killed not necessarily for good reasons, and not by qualified Israeli security forces, but by volunteers — such as the hilltop youth.”
Olmert is a longtime fierce Netanyahu critic.
He contends that the current government wants to extend the conflict in Gaza and thus had no interest in a cease-fire that would release Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
“Nothing would have happened on October 7,” Olmert says, if a different government with different priorities was in charge. “The failure starts with the overconfidence spread by the prime minister,” that his “sophisticated manipulations” deterred Hamas.
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