Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been "destroyed emotionally" by
his failure to prevent the 7 October Hamas attack and is now miscalculating by
preparing to take overall control of Gaza's security for an "indefinite period"
if the Palestinian resistance group is defeated in Gaza, according to former
Israeli leader Ehud Olmert.
Netanyahu is widely blamed by Israelis for the Hamas attack, in which 1,400
Israelis were killed and 240 taken captive. Many Israelis cite the slow response
of the army and police, which in some settlements near Gaza took hours, while
Israeli eyewitnesses have said the Israeli army itself killed many civilians in
an effort to prevent Hamas taking them captive back to Gaza.
In an interview with US news outlet Politico, Olmert claimed Netanyahu was in a
state of "nervous breakdown," for fear of being removed from office due to the
failure.
"He's being squeezed from all sides and his focus seems to be stopping being
thrown out of office the day the war stops and even maybe before then," he said.
"You expect him now to talk about the second phase and the third phase. He's not
certain he will survive politically this phase," Olmert added.
"[Netanyahu] has shrunk. He's destroyed emotionally, that's for sure. I mean,
something terrible happened to him. Bibi has been working all his life on the
false pretense that he is Mr. Security. He's Mr. Bullshit," Olmert said. "Every
minute he is prime minister he is a danger to Israel. I seriously mean it. I am
certain the Americans understand he is in bad shape."
-- Cont'd at https://new.thecradle.co/articles/netanyahu-a-danger-to-israel-former-israel-pm
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