26m video interview. Blurb:

“Netanyahu is history, he’s done,” Ehud Olmert told DW. He called the current Israeli leaders “violent, messianic thugs” and said that long term, Palestinians must be able to “exercise their right to self-determination.” The center-right politician and former prime minister added that there was no alternative to the two-state solution with the Palestinians. On the issue of the scores of Israelis taken hostage by Hamas, Olmert said there was “no basis for negotiation” with Hamas — since, in his view, the Islamist militant group was not interested in negotiations. Olmert also told host Tim Sebastian that he thought there was little likelihood of direct military action against Iran, even though Tehran had “coordinated” the attacks and that a derailment of a US-sponsored diplomatic and security accord between Israel and Saudi Arabia would serve Iran’s interests.


Not sure whether this counts as “news” in the strict sense but I think it does in the loose sense also I wouldn’t know where else to post it.

  • Zorque@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Except there’s more the Israeli populace can do to get rid of Netanyahu than the Palestinians can do to get rid of Hamas. There’s at least a framework of democracy for the former.

    I don’t disagree that they feed off each other… but the apathy or hostility of the Israeli populace is a major factor in their government.

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      1 year ago

      On paper. The war in Iraq involved the largest anti-war protests the world had ever seen, across multiple democratic countries.

      They pushed forward with the war regardless, a policy that was continued by subsequent governments, regardless of party.

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        The Iraq war made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.