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  1. “I say it every time I'm on television in Israel. I just said it the other day in a prime time major television show. I said it, but I am a former prime minister for the future.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “But in order to be able to achieve it, we need a different leadership. And unfortunately, at the end of our meeting, I'm not certain that I can give you the names of the people that I think can be the ones that will lead the country because I don't know that they are. I don't know where they are.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Think that this can be changed and it will be changed because at the end of the day when you say to them, okay, let's continue, let's destroy everything, let's take another six months and we will kill every single Hamas person that there is and there will not be Hamas anymore. There are still six million Palestinians. Do you think that we can carry on the occupation forever? Do you think that we can still deny the Palestinians from civil rights, human rights, political rights, voting rights, freedom of speech, freedom of movement forever? Do you think it's possible? Do you think Israel can contain it? Do you think that the international community will tolerate Israel as an occupying force forever? Forget about it. And when you talk like this to people, then in spite of the emotions, in spite of the hatred for the Palestinians that committed these atrocities to the Israelis, they understand that something must be done.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “And raped and whatnot by the Palestinians in the living rooms, in their bedrooms, in the safe rooms, in their houses, not as soldiers, not as a fighting group, etc. And we are also still worried for the originally 214 Israeli hostages, which are now 133, and we don't know how many of them are still alive, and they are raped and tortured on a daily basis. At this very moment by their captors in the most brutal way. So you can't, you know, overlook the impact of these experiences in the emotions and the hearts of the people of Israel. But that can be changed if there will be a leadership that will have the power, the determination, and the courage to do the opposite of what people thought that they would do because this is the right thing to do.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Not overwhelmingly, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I don't think that they are overwhelmingly in support of not stopping the war. In fact, I think that many of them are in. The war is finished, by the way. The war is ended. There is no war. There are just operations here and there, but it's fading. It's fading. The problem is this. You can't ignore what were the circumstances on the 7th of October that influence and impacted the emotions of the people in Israel and their attitudes toward Gaza and the Palestinians and Hamas. I know that the way you look at it, and I try to explain it, by the way, to the Israelis also, and I spell it out almost every day on the Israeli media, I said, look, we still feel the terrible pain of what happened to a couple of thousand of Israelis that were butchered and behaved.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “At times of Israel, Poland means more right wing, it's true yet, yet. Since last year in almost 100 different polls that were done through the year until last weekend, 80% of the Israelis do not trust the prime minister and the possible number in the Knesset is always around 70 to the opposition and 50 to the coalition of the primeval”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “I know I want someone to stand by his word. I want him to be able to say, to do the opposite of what he said for the country. And now I want it when I look at the person that may take over, there will be fire in his chest, threatening to erupt in like a volcano and burn everything that will stand in its way. You ask me whether I see someone in the present time in any of the possible places where the alternative can come with this kind of fire in his chest? I don't.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Don't know what to say. I can say only one thing that I say to some of the contenders in Israel that the greatest challenge Leadership is the ability of a leader. When he is in a position to take decisions which will determine the fate of his nation is the ability to do the opposite of everything that he ever promised he would do. In a moment when we measure our political guys, we say, ah, he's a great guy, he's a good guy. You know, he stands by his word.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “And then there will be the big battle will be against Bengvier and Smotrich, not against them personally only, but against what they represent. I think that what they represent is an imminent danger to the security, the safety, the stability, and the integrity of the state of Israel. And they have to be thrown out with him. I think it's much more important because he has been capable of pretending to be something different that misled a certain part of the Israeli population which is not necessarily extreme right-wing fundamentalist messianic, as small rich in the bank. So it's the priority for us is to get rid of him. If we get rid of him, we'll get rid of them.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “I don't want to say. I don't want to say what I want to say. You see? So let me say this. I think the base of VD are numbers. BB is finished. The elections will be sooner than later. They will be in four months, five months, six months at the end of the year. There will be elections. And he will be thrown to the sidelines of history where he belongs.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “He's an outstanding person. How come when Netanyahu was in such a provocative, manipulative way, was conspiring against? How come he didn't take some measures to against his government, of course with the possible ramifications for the standing on the state of Israel? And he refrained from doing it, although I know exactly what he thought about Netanyahu. One of his assistants that I talked with privately said to him, no one ever insulted the Oval Office in the history of the United States of America, as your Prime Minister referring to Netanyahu. And my interpretation is that both Obama, and I don't include Trump in this context because I think he's... Different guy and a different person. Mean he's conspiring inspired in every possible way. And look how helpful, supportive Biden is to the state of...”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “It's like a performance in the old week, if you want. He is made up, what remains of his hair, I don't have, as you can see, anything, he's dyeing it with purple colors, and he's preparing like this is a theatrical appearance. And he is a great performer. He's the greatest performance in international politics in comparison to anyone that I know in the world arena. He is a man without any moral convictions. And I think that unfortunately he is, nothing can stop him and nothing matters to him. And he has been successfully manipulating the international arena as well. You know, I wondered all the time, how come President Obama, who is an outstanding person? I annoy him. I worked with him.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “Number one, Netanyahu. Netanyahu is a much better political person than most of the opponents said he had dealt with since I left. He lost to me, as I said, in a very significant manner. The guy that came after me were not, unfortunately, didn't have the kind of firmness and determination and strengths, inner strengths, to face him. And he manipulated. He's a great performer. I always said that fortunately for Lawrence Olivier, he died before Bibi because had he lived at the time of Bibi, no one would talk about Lorentz Solidier. Everyone would talk about BB. Bibi is a performer. He's for every speech, every appearance that he makes.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “The way in the meantime, now I think that he didn't have the courage, he didn't have the courage had I been in a similar situation, the other side gives me a proposition. And he is likely not to support what he proposed, I could be in the best possible position. Had Abu Maslin signed the initials with me as I proposed to him, and then we would go to the United Nations Security Council and the United Nations Security Council would have approved of it. And then the next Prime Minister of Israel would come and say, I don't approve of what my government proposed to the other side. It would have left Abu Mazen in the best possible position in the international arena rather than to be the one that refused.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “In the next 50 years, you will not have one Israeli prime minister that will propose to you, what I propose to you now. I give it to you. You know you can crush me. You know that I mean it. You know that I care for it. You know that we've been sitting for hundreds of hours together and talking about it. Sign it now. Otherwise, it will disappear. And he said, give me 24 hours, I'll call you back. I'm still waiting.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “And there were all kinds of stories, I mean, Urbanic legends that I drew the map on a napkin. I presented it with a map which was prepared by the geographic department of the Israeli army, which was a very big map with all the necessary ingredients that were to be part of it and so on. And he said to me, I am not familiar with reading maps. So perhaps I'll have my expert see, will you give me the map? I said, President, if I'll give you the map, I'll never see you again. And in two years' time, in three years' time, you'll come back to the Israeli and we'll say, peace, this, I already have. I got it from all met. Now let's start negotiating for the rest. So I said, no way. You want the map? Sign it now. I will sign it and you will sign it. I said, listen, President.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “Exclusive sovereignty that we exercise in the Tepel Mountain in the old city and the holy basin of Jerusalem. That the holy basin of Jerusalem will be administered by a trust ship of five nations, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Palestine, Israel and America under the auspices of the UN Security Council. And that the refugee issue, which was always hanging over us in the Middle East, will be resolved within the framework of the Arab League peace initiative which was approved in 2022 in Beirut and again in 28th of March 2007 in Riyadh. This was a revolutionary approach. Now I answer you now what happened to the Palestinians. At the end of the day, if you ask me, I think that they didn't have the courage to make that one step which will change history. I was pleading. I said in my study in Jerusalem,”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “We will swap with you in territories which were part of the state of Israel pre-67. So the size of the state of the Palestinian state will be 100% identical to what the territories were before the occupation. That's number one. Number two, I said the outside of Jerusalem will be the Palestinian capital. In other words, I was prepared to divide the city of Jerusalem, which was one of the most significant slogans of Israelis and the Israeli political leaders to this day. You will not find one of the Israeli political leaders that are now in charge or that may become in charge tomorrow, that they will replace Netanyahu, including Lapid and Garz and Isaac Cot, that say that they are prepared to pull out from the Arab side of Jerusalem. Also, I say that we will agree to waive the...”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “I don't want to speak for them. No, I don't want to speak for them. I think it's very easy and I think it's not serious for me to speak for the other side. I can tell you this. And this is very important. And I urge you to be.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “They understood that the government that I led and that I represented was Anxious to achieve peace in line with what most of the countries that were friendly with us, Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel, you name it, came to Israel to express their solidarity with the attackers, with us, with me, even though we attacked Gaza because of what the Gazans did to us and so on and so forth. But the perception was that Israel was a country that was aiming at peace. You will never find anyone doing it now, obviously.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  21. “The direction that I thought was essential for the future of the state of Israel. And when Bibi took over in 2009, everything has changed. Look, I was in charge of the military operation beginning of 2009 in Gaza. And quite a few people were killed, including some civilians, fewer than, you know, in no comparison to what happened now. But at the end of that Kaslid operation, in the beginning of 2009, 24 hours after we announced the ceasefire in the south, all of the major leaders of Europe came to the residence of the Israeli prime minister in Jerusalem for a dinner party that I hosted and sat with me in front of all the cameras of the world and said, Israel had a right to do what it did. Can you imagine them doing it now to this government? So even when some were not quite happy with our military...”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  22. “Yes, yes. I mean, yes, they write fictions understood that Kadima is a real danger because it will destroy the infrastructure of the right-wing messianic groups and will change the course of history.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  23. “And the extremist fundamentalist, messianic, right-wingers, both here and from overseas with big pockets of unlimited amount of dollars in one of the court cases that I had, a young lady that was working as a secretary in my office when I was mayor of Jerusalem. And she was observant. She was suddenly from nowhere. She came to testify against me and I was absolutely surprised because I knew her to be very friendly and very supportive when she worked for me and I didn't understand what happened. And she said he was prepared to surrender the sacred land of Israel to the Goim, to the Palestinians. And this is terrible. I mean, this was sacrilegious.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  24. “So, what I saw in the past is not what I see now when I am at the top of the helm and I'm in charge of the fate of the future of this nation. I have to take decisions which may be different from what we took in the past. And I was in that section. So we decided, we figured out that there is a majority in the liquid which is against us. And we said we are not going to battle now and lose the fight because the fight is not for our personal political careers. The fight is for the future and the nature. of the state of Israel. So we decided to create Kadima Party. Sharon collapsed after a couple of weeks. So I had to take it from there and build up the party. And we collaborated with some members. And the members of the Labour Party became part of the Kadima and it was the centrist party which was destined to dominate the politics of Israel. And the right-wing fact”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  25. “It's not utterly dominated by the far right, but let's start first. I think really Kadima was an absolutely revolutionary change in the makeup of Israeli politics. Many of us from Likud who were part of the extreme right, I was part of it. I publicly apologize for my wrong opinions at an earlier time and I said, yes, I was wrong 20 years ago, 25 years ago, was entirely wrong and we have to change as, by the way, Sharon. Sharon was the one that built all the settlements, right? And in 2005, I, together with Sharon, as Sharon as the leader, we dismantled all the settlements that Sharon built because he figured out and he said it. He said, what do you think from here? You don't see from there.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  26. “I was very unhappy with the legal system in terms of the outcome of my case. I thought that they were wrong. I thought that they were somehow simplistic. I think that they were acting under the enormous pressure of public opinion and the coordinated efforts by political parties and other political maneuvers. And I was very upset. But I never thought, never shaped. I never thought a legal system can be wrong. A prime minister can be wrong. The chief rabbi can be wrong. The chief justice can be wrong. The head of Mossat can be wrong and judges can be wrong. So I thought that they were wrong. I never thought that there was a conspiracy by the legal system against me. I never thought then and I never wanted to destroy the legal system in order to avenge Decision that I was unhappy with.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  27. “Number one, I was very unhappy when we stayed out. I knew I was acquitted on maybe three, four different charges, different court cases that were presented against me on the first place. All of these I was acquitted. I was acquitted for all these charges. Subsequently, after I resigned already as Prime Minister,”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  28. “For my own personal use, no one said that I ever got this money directly to say that he was paid indirectly by one person to another person to cover political debts that I never had and so on and so forth. This was all nonsense. It doesn't matter. I was convicted. This was a concerted effort that was organized, financed and executed by my political rivals, mostly from the messianic national religious groups assisted and advised by people that wanted to bring back Bibi into power knowing that he will take the country into an entirely different direction.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  29. “At the end of the day, I mentioned because I don't see any reason to hide it. I'm not ashamed of, I'm sad because of the consequences that I think really set Israel back into an entirely different direction on the one that may have been the future of Israel. I was charged with all kinds of stupid things. At the end of the day, I was convicted for receiving 60,000 checkers, which is about 12,000 pounds as a political contribution. There was never any registration of this money. There was no one that saw the money. And it was all not the money that was given to cover my political debt. I didn't have political debts. I didn't have this money. No one said that I took this money or I got this money for my...”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  30. “For the leading right wing party in the history of the state of Israel. He was absolutely crashed. But since then, when they realized that I'm serious about my political plans, they started their manipulations and the investigations and the incriminations against me in every possible way assisted by some Jewish millionaires from America. The change in their makeup of the Israeli society was not affected by Jews that came from America. They were relatively small numbers. It was mostly affected at times by Jewish millionaires from America that felt that they can buy with money the territories for the Jewish people.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  31. “I had a plan well articulated of how to, if we would have signed the agreement with Palestinians, how to guarantee that there will be a majority support for it in the state of Israel. I think that there was a good chance to achieve it. This was 16 years ago, 15 years ago. So it's been a long time. I mean, many things changed since then. You can't judge what may have been done then to what can be done now. What went wrong first of all, the forces that were opposing me and that were influenced by national religious groups and by the opposition led by Netanyahu? I defeated Netanyahu in the elections in 2006. I didn't get all the votes that I wanted to get, but he got 12 seats in the Knesset, which is the smallest ever.”

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  32. “And if they will agree, then we will have peace. If they will not agree, we will pull out from the territories on the unilateral basis. Something that, you know, we're just after the very painful experience of the pulling out from the West Bank. And then suddenly, an eye came with this. And indeed, I got a smaller percentage.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  33. “Engagement, which is a pulling out from Gaza in August of 2005. And then it was quite a painful process for Israel because there were thousands of people living in those places near Gaza and we pulled them out because we say that this is not part of the land of Israel. We don't want to be there. We don't want to be there. It's not ours. So before the elections, I said, and I'm going to pull out from the West Bank. And all my advisors say to me, you're crazy. Why do you have to say that so explicitly? Why do you have to spell it out in such a clear way? Maybe it vague. You know, ambiguous lets people think whatever they want, focus on other things. They say, no, I mean business and I want after the elections to try and really pull out other territories. And I say, we will propose the Palestinians the most generous political plan.”

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  34. “An Israeli leader has ever done before. And I doubt that many in other countries were doing it. I decided to spread it out what I think and what I'm going to do, which I knew would cost me quite a lot of votes in the coming elections, but that I wanted to have the moral authority after the elections, and I was confident that I will win the elections, what I want to do after the elections with the moral authority. I shade in advance before you voted that I will do this. So I made a series of statements before the elections in which I said, yes, I'm going to go for a two-state solution. I said, I'm going to propose, and I was also, before the election, the most active minister in the cabinet of Sharon at that time, as a vice prime minister, in moving forward this”

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  35. “Know if it's ever been, but it's further away from where it was when I was Prime Minister. I have to say if I can, because I don't believe that anyone will do it for me, to my credit, that before the elections in 2006, when I was elected, I did something which I don't think that any”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  36. “The West Bank is inhabited by millions of people who are not part of us, who are not part of the Jewish people, and who are there. And there is no way that you can integrate these territories into the state of Israel without giving them all the civil rights, human rights, political rights, freedom of movement, freedom of speech, everything that has to come with it. But in that case, they will eventually become the majority and they will change entirely the nature and the essence of what Israel is all about. So we have to decide what do we want to achieve. And we have to give up. And Menachem begging never said that he will give up the territories to make any change in the status of the territories, in the direction of the integration and the annexation because he understood that this dream will never come true.”

    2024-04-28 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 71. Israel's former PM on why Netanyahu is finished, the settler movement, and corruption - Ehud Olmert · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  37. “Was the person perhaps more than any other person that'd say that when we will come into power, we will annex all of these territories because the West Bank is not the West Bank, it's Judea and Samaria, it is the historical basis of a Jewish life. Now, I entirely agree with him that the West Bank is indeed Judea and Samaria historically and that they were part on the basis of the beginning of the emergence of the Jewish life. But I also subscribe to the wisdom and the leadership of Nathan Begin who understood when he became prime minister, he thought he would do when he would become prime minister is entirely impossible because the fact is that now in this time 676 to this”

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  38. “Definitely also, I'm not familiar enough with the Jewish history because what he said about Hebron is historically accurate. Heblon is one of the foundations of what the Jewish life 2003 years ago. And in fact, talking about a person I mentioned before, Menathembein, who was the leader of the moon and the subsequently the leader of the party of Kerut party, and then of the new makeup, relatively new, the liquud. He was always talked about the two banks of the Jordan, which are the Jewish state and the symbol of the Irgun actually included not only all of the West Bank, but also the East Bank of the Jordan. And Menachem Begin refused to change the symbol of the goon, the logo of the 67, Menachem Begg.”

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  39. “the lengths of the control of the one party on almost every facet of life in our country for many years the feelings of inferiority of in a way a feeling of segregation which characterizes the Jews that came from oriental countries the feeling amongst the people that came from oriental countries or Muslim countries that dominance in our society in our life in our institutions in our courts in our academic centers all was completely in the hands of Jews from Western backgrounds and not from eastern background was a major source of bitterness and disappointment which has spread and started to shake the balance and the sense of solidarity within the country which had nothing to do with The other aspect that you have mentioned, which I entirely agree with.”

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  40. “There are many problems which stem from 67, and I entirely subscribe to this observation and to this understanding. But what I was talking about is in a very serious way, is independent, you now mentioned. I would have come back to it anyway. Of course, the euphoric attitude that has devastated is that after the 67 war, the feeling that we God has brought us back into where we were supposed to be from the very beginning, for the first time actually after 48, we are in charge of the entire Israel that was promised to us, so on and so forth, has developed the messianic spirit and also the overconfidence of our capabilities. But the divisions in the Israeli society that I was talking about started independently of this, started because”

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  41. “From Europe, from different parts of Europe, the remnants of the Holocaust after the Second World War and after the British allowed them to enter into the state of Israel years later, they were kept in camps everywhere, but they came from European countries, which were entirely different in terms of background, language, manners, culture, personal histories than the jurisdiction came from Muslim countries. The jurisdiction came from the neighboring countries again in our area.”

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  42. “Not since then. And since then, it started to be much more volatile and viol And noisy. And unfortunately, it started to have this characteristic of distrust amongst many of the Israelis. Look, this early society is maybe unique by any standard that you are familiar with. You're talking about when Israel was proclaimed in 1948, there were about 750,000 Jews living in Israel. Today there are seven and a half million. Now the Jews came from every corner of the world. So Israeli society is a makeup of people that came from Muslim countries in North Africa.”

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  43. “There was one party in power in power. When I grew up and I was elected in 1973 already to parliament, it was obvious and natural that when the elections, there are elections, there are free elections, everyone can vote. But the Labour Party will always take control.”

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  44. “So brutality in terms of a language, in terms of a menders, in terms of the attitudes of people one to the other was different. But still there was a great sense of solidarity. Things started to change in 1973. That is after the war in 1973. For the first time, there was a feeling which since then started to spread in the country that the leadership, the people that were assigned that were given the authority to protect the people of Israel and the country of Israel that were ahead all the means in order to exercise this authority in the most responsible manner that they failed because of overconfidence, because of complacency, because of Of negligence, whatever. And that they were too long in government continuously without a change for almost 30 years, right? From 1948 till 1976.”

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  45. “At a very imminent social factor in our life. The political system was demanding or sometimes brutal or we didn't have the kind of maybe of finesse that may have characterized other systems, certainly maybe to some extent the British system in comparison to us. In the British system, British Parliament, you may have heard a member of Labour Party talking to a Tory member saying the distinguished gentleman And in the Israeli, I said already at that time someone will have said to the member of the other side, you better shut up, okay?”

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  46. “Well, Israel is changing dramatically. It's a different country, a different society from what it was when I started life in politics. I was first elected to parliament at a very young age, actually, 50 years ago in 1973. Immediately after the 73 war, it was still under the leadership of the Labour Party, the traditional control of the Labour Party, which was in control of the Jewish community before the innovation of the state of Israel and then over years after that for almost 30 years from the proclamation of Israel. There was democracy I always felt as a young man that everything was In a way possible, there was a great sense of solidarity”

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  47. “And maybe 30 years later, I spotted him in Melbourne, Australia, and I brought him over to Israel to visit with us at a friend that was part of our lives, even though he was on the other side. So the memories that I had from the British, I heard lots of stories. And of course, you know that more than 250 members of the Gun, including a person who subsequently became Prime Minister of Israel, is Hak Shamir, who was one of the members of the commanders and the leaders of the Stirling were expelled to Kenya and to Eritrea, which is in Africa. And they were there exiled for three years. And some of our neighbors were also in that group of members of the It were exiled to Africa. But I must say that in my early life, there was not hatred.”

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  48. “Of the Jewish people in a place which was historically part of the Jewish tradition and Jewish life and Jewish history, I must say that when I grew up, my father was not involved and my neighbors who were more or less of the same kind of community were never involved in any violent actions against the British at the time. In fact, one of the British soldiers was secretly collaborating with my parents and their friends helping them in all kinds of military or any secret matters, but in terms of assisting them to somehow get along with the very difficulties that were part of their lives.”

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  49. “Became aware of all these different perspectives and observations at a much later age. When I grew up, not when I was three, five, seven years old at that time. Now, you have to know something about my parents. My parents grew up in China. In the farthest place, Palestine. And they were inspired by one of the great leaders of the Jewish people at that time in the early 30s, the late 20s of the 20th century in China, at the end of the world, in Manjuria, in Habin, which is in the northeast part of China. They were inspired by Jabotinsky. And my father decided to leave his family. In 1930, when he was not yet even 20 years old and to immigrate to Palestine, he was at that time a student at the university in Habi. He decided in order to”

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  50. “Between a township, which is now known as Pinyamina, and Zichon Yako, which at that time was a secret basis of the room. And very nearby the Shuni casten, there was a British military camp. And they were about 500, 700 meters from where we lived, where I was born, in a place which had no running water, no electricity, I mean, this was, of course, unbelievable circumstances. And about a year and a half after I was born, we moved into that township Biamina, where my parents and their friends, which were part of this community of Irgun members, built tiny houses where I grew up in. Tiny houses means like, I think 40 square meters, okay? Without a bathroom inside the house and so on and so forth. So we grew up in a very modest condition.”

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