Ex-Israel PM Ehud Olmert warns Netanyahu 'worst man to lead Hamas response', not trusted by military

Ex Israel PM Ehud Olmert warns Netanyahu is 'worst person' to leaad response to Hamas attack, not trusted by secret services ITV NewsShow more

Ehud Olmert admits that he is very far from being a neutral commentator on the current Israeli prime minister given his opposition to him.

On the day that an emergency national government of unity was announced, I asked Ehud Olmert if he thought Binyamin Netanyahu was the war-time leader Israel needed at this vital hour.

He didn’t hold back in his bias against Netanyahu: ''He's the worst person to have to deal with it."

"First of all, he has no trust in a major part of the Israeli public opinion, particularly amongst those who have to carry the burden of fighting.
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"All the security community of the state of Israel, all the former Generas and the Chief of Staff and defence ministers and the head of Mossad, the head of the secret service, the head of the police, you name it - all of them were absolutely sell out against him. He considers himself to be a Churchillian leader but if there can be an opposite of Churchill, it would be Netanyahu, unfortunately."

Even after powerful armies conduct successful military operations in other regions, there is the age-old question of: What happens the day after victory?

"The Palestinian issue is here," he told me, "now what do we want? To fight all the Palestinians? To destroy all the Palestinians? To kill all of them?

"I don't want that, I want to kill the terrorists and I want to make peace with the others and that's what the government has to do."

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Ex Israel PM warns 'people are going to suffer as current leader vows to 'crush' Hamas| ITV News

11 Oct 2023

Former Israeli leader Ehud Olmert has warned 'people are going to suffer' and tells ITV's Rageh Omar the country will need to do something it has never done before to defeat Hamas.

It comes as the country's current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel would “crush and destroy” Hamas in response to its attack.

Mr Netanyahu said every member of the militant group was a “dead man" as Israel mobilised more than 360,000 military reservists near the Gaza border ahead of a possible ground invasion.