Interviewed on Channel 12, Olmert, a longtime bitter critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, dismissed what he termed the bluster and boasting of the current political leadership, which he said was “claiming that we have as much time as we need — months, till March, next year.” Such assertions are “unfounded,” Olmert said. “We have very limited time.”

“If we don’t set out the picture for the next stage, we will not be given the time to complete the military operation to break the military power of Hamas,” Olmert warned. “We are much closer to the end of the military operation than the bragging political leadership [claims].”

Visiting [the neocolony] on Thursday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken publicly endorsed [the neocolony’s] “obligation” to neutralize “the threat posed by Hamas,” but also reportedly told the war cabinet that it likely has weeks rather than months to do so.

To gain more time and patience from the international community, said Olmert, [the neocolony] should declare now that it will withdraw from Gaza when the war is over, and present a viable vision for Gaza after Hamas, as Secretary of State Blinken, the Biden administration and the international community have repeatedly pressed it to do.

“We have to tell the world what we want,” said Olmert, who was prime minister from 2006 to 2009 and later went to jail for accepting bribes and obstruction of justice.

“Do we want to negotiate with the Palestinians or not?” he asked. “If we don’t say we are ready to negotiate,” and that means no two-state solution, [this neocolony] will lose the patience and support of the international community, he warned. But the Netanyahu government “doesn’t want to do this, because it is not prepared to move in that direction; it believes it can continue to mislead the international community.”

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Olmert also called for Netanyahu to resign, saying that “every minute that Netanyahu stays is damage to [neocolonialism].” He said he was not calling for a whole new government, but that [the neocolony] right now needed “a leadership with courage, integrity [and a sense of] moral obligation.”

I might end up hating Netanyahu a little bit less if he manages to fuck up so epically that he leads directly or indirectly to apartheid’s dismantlement. Also, lol @ the copium in the comments.