• culture

• Podcast

"Netanyahu is looking for blood and is fighting to destroy the country. He needs treatment in a closed institution."

On the occasion of the docu-broadcast on HOT8, the former prime minister who was convicted of fraud and bribery came to the Walla!

Culture and shot in all directions.

Bibi?

"Living in anxiety that requires treatment."

Yair Netanyahu?

"Crazy idler."

blockade?

"dumb".

Peace?

"They will also sign with Fiji."

And Olmert himself?

"The most humble man in the world"

Tags

• Ehud Olmert

• King Bibi

• Benjamin Netanyahu

• Yair Netanyahu

Avner Shavit

Sunday, September 13, 2020, 12:00 p.m.

• Share on Facebook

• Share on WhatsApp

• Share on general

• Share on general

• Share on Twitter

• Share on Email

0 comments

"The man who wanted too much" - this is the name of the documentary in question about Ehud Olmert, who made his debut at the Dokaviv festival last week, and this week will be broadcast on HOT8.

The film, directed by Roni Abulafia, shows the former prime minister's version of the chain of events that led to his resignation and removal from the political stage, after being convicted of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes.

He, who according to legend suggested to producer Arnon Milchen to call the romantic comedy with Richard Gere and Julia Roberts "Beautiful Woman", would choose another name for this docu - "The Pursuit", aptly for his conspiratorial narrative.

Olmert says this in a Walla!

Culture, which was hosted in preparation for the docu-broadcast.

As in the film, in the interview he continues to insist that he is not corrupt, did not take a penny, and his conviction was the result of a hunting campaign against him, against a political background and especially against the background of the fact that he was close to ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In this conversation as well, Olmert states that Moshe Lador, the state attorney at the time, "acted like crazy."

So what is the difference between his statements and those of Netanyahu?

Is he not delegitimizing law enforcement just like him?

"Unlike Netanyahu, I resigned before there was an indictment and before the investigation was completed," he justifies.

"During my tenure, I did not say a word about the prosecution or the police. The lawsuit against me was filed a year after I resigned. Everything I said or wrote about the authorities was many years after my tenure, and that's the difference - it's not a technical, not a substantial difference."

"What there is at the moment is the use of government institutions and state resources to serve something else - the personal and private interest of the prime minister at the expense of the State of Israel. It cannot be compared to my case."

More on Walla!

NEWS

"To claim that only Ashkenazis are protesting against him is Bibi's lie. The demonstrations are the most involved thing I have ever seen."

To the full article

"The state's attorney acted like crazy."

Ehud Olmert (Photo: Reuven Castro)

A documentary was also made about Netanyahu, called "King Bibi".

Did Olmert watch it?

"No, because I do not find anything interesting in Bibi," he says.

"I have known him for thirty years and I think he is an empty and hollow man who is not busy with anything but himself. He is not interested in anything, not the State of Israel and nothing else. After all, he is a great actor and could have been an international star on Broadway stages. After finishing the saga. From his legal point of view, he may have time to do one or two plays there. "

Olmert, on the other hand, did watch the film "Terrible Days," about the events that led to Rabin's assassination.

"Netanyahu played a key role in creating an atmosphere of incitement. True, he did not know the killer, did not think about the murder and did not imagine that there would be murders. I do not want to impose direct criminal responsibility on him, but he certainly contributed to creating the atmosphere," the former prime minister said. .

"He did it then and he does it now too. He wants blood. I repeat what I say - he wants blood. Why? Because only when there is blood may he have the power he wants to have to prevent the demonstrations against him and prevent the "He calls it the 'war being waged against him.'

More on Walla!

NEWS

"Avri Gilad was nice to me, but what he said was racism and we should act against his statements."

To the full article

"Netanyahu could have been an actor. Maybe after the legal saga he will have time for a show or two."

Ehud Olmert (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Of course, Olmert also does not support Netanyahu's treatment of Corona.

"Bibi has lost self-control," he declares.

"He lives with a level of clinical psychopathological anxiety that requires treatment in a closed institution, not in state management."

So what would Olmert have done differently?

"I would build a set of tests that would do fifty thousand to one hundred thousand tests a day. Obviously it can be done. I did a test today and it takes exactly three minutes," says the former minister of health.

"It was possible to retire from Eilat to Metula, a system of tests and prepare a system for analyzing the data, but to this day, in the midst of the second wave, they have not done so. This whole matter of quarantine is stupid, Holiday camps and send to them those who are positive, and send everything else to work. "

More on Walla!

NEWS

Yuval Mendelssohn, the cool citizenship teacher in Israel, explains what it is like to teach the children of the "Netanyahu generation"

To the full article

"Bibi lost self-control."

Ehud Olmert (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The recent peace agreements do not excite Olmert either.

"Next month we might sign a peace agreement with the Fiji Islands, so what?", He stings.

"These agreements are good, so that there will be no misunderstanding, but relations with the Emirates began before Netanyahu, as a million other things were before him. This is not a country we fought with and it can not come at the expense of the agreement we have to make with the Palestinians, and we do not do it because we "We do not want to give up. We want settlements and want to enslave Palestinians and bite them. This creates a horizon of conflict that will never end. Abu Mazen is the only real partner to make peace with, and the fact that we are missing the opportunity is a crime for ourselves."

In light of all this, does Olmert regret resigning?

Is he sorry he did not cling to his chair?

"It would not have happened, because the human environment that surrounds me would not have allowed me," he explains.

"I could have stayed another three years, but then I would have been dragged into clashes with the police and the prosecution, which were not good for the country."

More on Walla!

NEWS

Neta Barzilai: "Calling me 'Eurovision winner' is the smallest thing that can be said about me"

To the full article

"Missing the opportunity to sign peace with Abu Mazen is a crime for ourselves."

Ehud Olmert (Photo: Reuven Castro)

In the last three elections, Olmert voted blue and white.

"I did not think these people were good news or salvation for the people of Israel, but they are reasonable people," he explains.

"They made a terrible mistake and wasted some kind of hope in the Israeli public. Maybe now they understand that the man they made an agreement with is a crook and a swindler, a person who should not sit with him. That he is a crook who thinks only of himself. "

Olmert spills over in an interview about his cheerful partner and their joint children.

He likes the Netanyahu family less.

"Yair Netanyahu is a sick and crazy bum who lies in his house at the expense of the State of Israel, spends time at our expense and curses us all," he says.

"If it was my son, I would give him two slaps in the cheek and throw him out of the house, let him go to work. This is a psoriasis that sucks and sucks from our resources."

More on Walla!

NEWS

Hila Elroy: "Whoever believes in Yoram Les - will be treated by Yoram Les. He is a demagogue who endangers the public"

To the full article

"If Yair Netanyahu was my son, I would give him two slaps and throw him out of the house."

Ehud Olmert (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Is all this, as well as the film, a platform for a return to politics?

"This is irrelevant, because my criminal record was not deleted," Olmert replies.

"If they delete? First they delete. And if so, will I run? I do not want to say something that in another year or two I will have to excuse or apologize for. In life we ​​have seen everything. I hope there will be no need for a person like me to think about running again."

In recent months, Olmert has watched the series "The Conspiracy Against America" ​​and "Burgen," which deals with the Danish prime minister.

Who can be the Prime Minister of Israel?

"Meirav Michaeli," he surprises.

"I really appreciate her personality. She surpasses Bibi by ten notches."

More on Walla!

NEWS

"Already in '68 my mother knew how to point out the magnitude of the tragedy of the occupation"

To the full article

"Meirav Michaeli surpasses Bibi by ten ranks."

Ehud Olmert (Photo: Reuven Castro)

And also: why is he afraid of the possibility that Gideon Saar will be prime minister?

Were we really close to peace with the Palestinians?

When and why did the revolution of consciousness that followed him agree to give up the Greater Land of Israel?

How does he sum up his time in prison and why does he have a full stomach for the IPS? Why does he consider himself "the most humble person in the world"? What would he most like, what does he regret and what would change in the film? The

Likud response: "We will not accept moral sermons From the former prisoner Ehud Olmert who was a failed prime minister who almost gave up the Western Wall to the Palestinians.

The only reason he is being interviewed now is his sense of sourness when he sees how Prime Minister Netanyahu manages to bring 'Peace for Peace', peace out of power for the first time. "The

two parts of the film will be broadcast today (Sunday 13 September) and tomorrow on HOT8 and will be available on HOT VOD.

Follow the podcast in apps: Sign up for Spotify, sign up for Apple.

Ehud Olmert (Photo: Reuven Castro)

• Share on Facebook

• Share on WhatsApp

• Share on general

• Share on general

• Share on Twitter

• Share on Email

0 comments