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.
If people want to wait a few days until things are a little calmer then sure. But it’s going to take a lot longer than that to get rid of Hamas, if such a thing is even possible, so that’s what I’m responding to.
Personally I doubt he’ll be removed at all. Probably depends on how the media narrative evolves and how obvious security failures were.