Ehud Olmert über Israels katastrophalen Krieg im Gaza
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ehud-olmert.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OE8.a025._r_RJwysLwAB&smid=re-nytopinion
Ehud Olmert über Israels katastrophalen Krieg im Gaza
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ehud-olmert.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OE8.a025._r_RJwysLwAB&smid=re-nytopinion
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“We destroyed the military power of Hezbollah. And Syria collapsed. And Hamas is almost completely eradicated,” Ehud Olmert, the prime minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009, says in this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” “And even when Iran attacked us with ballistic missiles, we intercepted almost all of them — hundreds of them — in one of the most unbelievable attacks in modern history. Hundreds of ballistic missiles with 1,000-kilo warheads were shot at Israel, and 95 percent of them were intercepted, with the assistance of America and Great Britain and France but largely because of us. So to say that there is an imminent danger to the very existence of Israel from a few thousand terrorists is ridiculous.”
Watch, listen or read the full conversation between Olmert and Klein [here, for free](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ehud-olmert.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OE8.a025._r_RJwysLwAB&smid=re-nytopinion), even without a Times subscription.
Reminder that Ehud Olmert was sentenced to 6 years in prison in 2014 for accepting bribes and for obstruction of justice. He was then succeeded by Netanyahu as PM of Israel.
He’s spent the last 20 years trying his best to attack the Israeli government in English media in an attempt to rehabilitate his image.
On top of that, Ezra Klein is a leftist American who serves as a token Jew to antisemitic movements worldwide. He has never once used his platform to support Jews or speak on Jewish issues, instead he has exclusively attacked Israel for not living up to his idealistic worldview that was shaped by living his entire life in a bubble-wrapped, rich, western fantasy world, thousands of miles away from any real danger.
Worthless conversation between two awful, awful people.
I don’t think there’s an entire percent of Israelis who care what Olmert has to say.
The person most responsible for beginning the siege of Gaza in the first place, has lost his stomach for the genocide. Claiming the murder and maiming of hundreds of thousands of civilians as an Israeli “success”.