Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the current head of the government of the Jewish state, Benjamin Netanyahu, is “emotionally destroyed by his massive failure” in the field of national security. This is reported by the newspaper Politico.
Ehud Olmert said that Israel’s national security failure, which is linked to a surprise attack by the Palestinian Hamas movement, has “emotionally humiliated” the current Israeli prime minister. The politician specified that because of such a “massive failure,” Benjamin Netanyahu is misinterpreting the situation with the Gaza Strip.
“(Netanyahu. – ed.) has blundered. He’s morally destroyed, that’s for sure. I mean, something terrible has happened to him. Bibi (Netanyahu’s pseudonym – ed.) has spent his whole life working under the flimsy pretext that he’s ‘Mr Security’. He is Mr “bullshit.” Every minute that he is prime minister, he is a danger to Israel. <…> I am sure the Americans realise that he is in bad shape,” the former Israeli prime minister said.
The politician called Netanyahu’s strategic plan to maintain control over the post-war Gaza Strip a mistake. In his view, it amounts to a return to 2005, when Israel exercised military rule over the coastal enclave.
“It is not in Israel’s interest to control the security of Gaza. It is in our interest to be able to defend ourselves differently than we did before the 7 October attack. But to control Gaza again? No,” summarised Olmert.
Recall, earlier Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a populist. Moreover, according to the Turkish politician, the head of the government of the Jewish state has lost the support of his own people.