Piers Morgan Bluntly Asks Former Israeli Leader Whether Netanyahu ‘Should Be at The Hague’
Piers Morgan bluntly asked former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert whether current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “should be at The Hague.”
During an interview with Olmert on Monday’s Piers Morgan Uncensored, Morgan asked, “When you say that Israel’s forces are now committing war crimes, that’s obviously a very serious charge. Do you believe that this will inevitably now end up in the International Criminal Courts at the Hague?”
“Up until recently, there was an international consensus that the Israeli operation was inevitable and acceptable and justified, and I entirely subscribe to this, as most of the Israelis did for obvious reasons because of what happened on the 7th of October and the continued consistent war of terror that was perpetrated by Hamas for years and years and years,” replied Olmert, who served as prime minister between 2006 and 2009:
But 20 months passed since then. Everything that can be achieved by a military operation has been achieved, and tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed. Probably a large number of them were fighters of Hamas and they deserve the punishment, okay? But thousands were not, and now the question is what else can we achieve by expanding the military operation which can justify the cost? The cost for us, the cost for the hostages, and the cost of non-involved Palestinians.
And the feeling is that we have come to a point where a leadership decision has to be made to stop it, and the majority of Israelis believe that Netanyahu carries on and wants to expand it, not because of any national interest that justifies it, but because of political considerations. What is it if not a crime?
Morgan pressed, “So do you think he should be at the Hague one day for this?”
“Look, there should be a voice, and if as a result of the fact that I was prime minister and I’m fairly well known in the international community that people want to hear what I have to say, I have to say it, yes,” concluded Olmert. “I am prepared, I am ready to. I’m already in the middle of the heat, you know, of those who oppose me, but I think I should do that.”
Olmert made headlines last week after he accused Netanyahu’s government of committing war crimes against civilians in Gaza.
“What is it if not a war crime?” he wrote in an op-ed for Haaretz. “What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians.”
Watch above via Piers Morgan Uncensored on YouTube.
