12/22/2023–|Last updated: 12/22/202303:32 PM (Mecca time)
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called for an immediate halt to the war on Gaza, saying that the goals set by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could not be achieved.
Olmert said – in an article in the newspaper “Haaretz” entitled: Stop the war in exchange for the return of the “kidnapped” alive – that the claims of Netanyahu and members of his government that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) can be eliminated through military operations are unrealistic.
Olmert stressed that Netanyahu himself does not believe that this goal can be achieved, pointing out that Netanyahu is acting as a showman, and that all he means is escaping the consequences of responsibility for failing to prevent a Hamas attack on October 7th.
Olmert added that Netanyahu is driven by internal political considerations, and that he realizes that there is no possibility of achieving the goal of eliminating Hamas, but from the first moment he was not preoccupied with the war on Gaza, but rather with his own personal war of survival.
Olmert stressed that Israel has two options: either it agrees to a ceasefire and returns its prisoners to Hamas through an exchange deal, or it continues fighting so that the war ends without achieving the goal of eliminating Hamas and without recovering the prisoners.
