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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

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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

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