From https://x.com/BMoon_bee/status/1944154267864248392 :
Invited on 🇮🇱 Channel 13, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert breaks the official 🇮🇱 propaganda live and doesn’t mince words:
— “In the West Bank, war crimes are committed daily. Jewish settlers murder Palestinians, they burn them alive. When these crimes are committed with the government’s complicity, the police are present — they turn a blind eye. As for the Israeli army, it is not fulfilling its role.”
Facing him, the hosts try to downplay the facts, claiming that the true perpetrators of the violence are the Palestinians and that settler attacks are the work of only a tiny minority.
Olmert retorts, firmly:
— “What you’re saying is false and misleading. Every day, the ‘hilltop youth,’ these extremist terrorist militias, carry out mass attacks. Palestinians are assaulted, driven off their land. Their fields are set ablaze, their homes too. Just yesterday, an American citizen was struck on the head with a baton. He was murdered.”
Olmert’s intervention is not only a damning admission aimed at Israelis but also at European leaders: the crimes against humanity committed against Palestinians in the West Bank are not isolated incidents, but a systematic genocidal policy aimed at deporting all Palestinians, not just those in Gaza.
And when a former 🇮🇱 Prime Minister speaks like this, the world no longer has an excuse to look away and deny these crimes!
Channel 13 is a capitalist-owned media, with ties to Netanyahu like a lot of other israeli medias, it's in third position after shifting closer to Netanyahu's far-right in recent years : https://www.timesofisrael.com/is-israels-channel-13-being-neutered-for-netanyahus-sake-its-not-so-simple, https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jul/20/uk-billionaires-israeli-tv-channel-accused-of-axing-show-for-netanyahu
The channel 14, ranked second, is also on the far-right and pro-Netanyahu : https://www.972mag.com/israel-right-media-now14
As usual the right only cares about themselves while accusing the left of being too 'nice for their own good'/naive/unrealistic.
(from s.m.b.c.)
And yes, sure, on the other side : https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8433596
Just that i'd prefer if Netanyahu's goverment was an exception, if there was still a chance for justice/peace instead of the law of the strongest : https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8394953/6633521
Worth adding Ehud Olmert's realignment plan : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realignment_plan
According to the plan, Israeli settlements in 90% of the West Bank would be evacuated and dismantled.
From https://xkcd.com/1338
