23/6/2025–|Last update: 05:24 (Mecca time)
The former Israeli Prime Minister said Ehud Olmert that Benjamin Netanyahu He succeeded in paying attention to the stalled war in Gaza through the new war that it started with Tehran, and that the American blow to Iran gives him a “great opportunity” to end the two wars, but it will not succeed in exploiting it.
In an article in the British Economist Magazine, Olmert, who during the past months, saw sharp criticism of the Israeli Prime Minister required for the International Criminal Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, that the American bombing of Iranian facilities changes the rules of the game and postpones even temporarily the danger of the Iranian nuclear program, but it will have wider repercussions, as he put it.
On Sunday, the United States entered the Israeli war with Iran directly by declaring the president Donald Trump Implementation of an attack targeting 3 of the most prominent Iranian nuclear sites, which are Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan facilities.
Olmert, who assumed the prime minister between 2006 and 2009, added that it is arrogant and unrealistic that the series of pre -emptive military strikes can trap a country with a population of more than 90 million people with resources and cultural heritage that extends for thousands of years, in reference to Iran.
He pointed out that Iran “will not collapse or shatter even after the very painful American strike and do not forget that it still has a strong arsenal of missiles,” as he put it.
Olmert said that the American strike provides “a great opportunity to end the war in Iran and a comfortable exit point in the war in Gaza, but previous experiences indicate that Netanyahu knows how to start a war, but it lacks the ability, imagination and courage to end it.”
He concluded, “If Netanyahu is wise, brave and responsible, he will stop the fighting, otherwise he will be his arrogance, he will eliminate everything he achieved for Israel.”
During the past months, Olmert criticized Netanyahu for his insistence on continuing the war on the Gaza Strip, and accused him of deliberately prolonging the war, abandoning Israeli prisoners and not setting accurate targets for the fighting forces, as he called for trial.