Our guest is former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. He has recently called Israel’s assault on Gaza a “war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel” but denies that Israel is committing genocide and believes its actions were legitimate until the spring of 2024.
Topics discussed include…
What he would have done differently after October 7
Hamas’s and the Palestinian Authority’s standing going forward
How Israel’s war crimes should be dealt with
international pressure on Israel
Trump’s potential role
Charges that Olmert is also guilty of war crimes for Israel’s war with Lebanon in 2006
Olmert’s negotiations for a 2-state agreement and who’s to blame for their failure
Peter
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