The author Ehud Olmert

is an Israeli politician and lawyer. He served as the 12th prime minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009 and before that as a cabinet minister from 1988 to 1992 and from 2003 to 2006. [source: Wikipedia]

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    3 days ago

    This is now a private political war

    Implying there was a time when it wasn’t.

    Also before anyone gets too hopeful, this guy is a disgraced former politician who was jailed on corruption charges. He doesn’t have the political baggage preventing him from speaking his conscience, which is pretty rich of him considering he led this particular escapade, but I digress. What I want to say is that this shouldn’t be taken as a sign that Israeli leadership is speaking out against the genocide, because Olmert isn’t Israeli leadership.

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      3 days ago

      It is (and has been) both private and public. They are not mutually exclusive. The public war is fueled by private interests, but is also its own beast.