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2023-12-03 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
The latest anti-Bibi efforts by the “loyal” opposition
Returned captives, hostage families demand meeting with Netanyahu as truce ends

[IsraelTimes] Families of the hostages held in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, including several of those freed in recent days, are demanding to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

A statement from the forum for the families says they want the meeting "tonight" after a week-long truce aimed at getting hostages back ended due to Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
violations and Israel announced it was pulling out of talks.
Selfish demands for attention snipped because, really, there is a war going on.
Over the week-long truce, 105 civilians were released from Hamas captivity in Gaza: 81 Israelis, 23 Thai nationals and one Filipino.

Several of those freed have husbands and fathers still held in Gaza.

Still held hostage by Gaza terror groups when the truce collapsed were 136 people — 114 men, 20 women and two children. Ten of the hostages are 75 and older. The vast majority of the hostages, 125, are Israeli. Eleven are foreign nationals, including eight from Thailand.

Olmert: World will soon halt the war if gov’t doesn’t say what it intends for post-Hamas Gaza

[IsraelTimes] Former prime minister Ehud Olmert warns that if the Israeli government continues to refuse to tell the world what it envisages for Gaza in “the next stage,” after Hamas, it won’t be given time by the US and the international community to complete “this stage,” destroying Hamas.

The bluster and boasting of the current political leadership, “claiming that we have as much time as we need — months, till March, next year — is unfounded,” Olmert tells Channel 12. “We have very limited time.”

What could give Israel “some time and patience from the international community are, first, to make clear that “at end of the military operation, when Hamas is defeated,” Israel will withdraw from Gaza: “We have no option to stay and no interest in doing so.” And second, to present Israel’s “picture” of Gaza post-war, as the US and international community have been repeatedly pressing Israel to do.

Says Olmert, “There is no chance that any Arab soldier or Palestinian will enter Gaza at Israel’s direction. There is no avoiding the entry of foreign forces — from Europe, from NATO countries, although not a NATO force,” he says.

“Do we want to negotiate with the Palestinians or not?” asks Olmert, who was prime minister from 2006 to 2009 and later went to jail for accepting bribes and obstruction of justice. “If we don’t say we are ready to negotiate,” and that means on a two-state solution, Israel will lose the patience and support of the international community, he warns.

Olmert also calls for Netanyahu to quit, saying that “every minute that Netanyahu stays is damage to Israel.” He says he is not calling for a whole new government, but that Israel right now needs “a leadership with courage, integrity [and a sense of] moral obligation.”

Olmert concludes the interview by saying that one of the General Reconnaissance Unit (Sayeret Matkal) commandos who saved then Sgt. Netanyahu from drowning [in the Suez Canal] in 1969, Eitan Ziv, was murdered by Hamas terrorists [Hebrew link] along with his wife on October 7 [at Kibbutz Kfar Aza]. He claims Netanyahu has not even called the family to express condolences.

Large crowds gather in Tel Aviv for rally to be addressed by several freed hostages

[IsraelTimes] Large crowds of people are gathering in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv for a rally calling for the release of the remaining hostages held by Hamas and other terror groups in the Gaza Strip.

Several of the hostages freed during the week-long truce that collapsed on Friday are set to speak in person, and others are to address the crowd via video.

Channel 12 estimates that tens of thousands of people are present.

6 people said detained in protest outside Netanyahu’s home

[IsraelTimes] Six people were detained by police while demonstrating outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in the coastal town of Caesarea, protest organizers said.

The protesters are calling on Netanyahu to resign following the failures that led to the October 7 Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
assault on southern Israel.

Video from the scene showed several demonstrators standing on sand dunes overlooking his home, calling out to him with a megaphone, before being confronted by police. Police tell them they did not have permission to demonstrate at the site.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-12-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Former prime minister and convicted felon Ehud Olmert
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-03 00:16||   2023-12-03 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 What does Ehud Olmert have against Bibi Netanyahu? They both started in Likud and are creatures of the sensible right, they’ve both endured lawfare from the crazed left... he ought to be supportive at this moment, not joining in the grand pile-on.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-12-03 00:32||   2023-12-03 00:32|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Personal ambition & blaming others for his failures.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-03 01:06||   2023-12-03 01:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Incidentally, an observation made by a friend a few days ago "All these IAF pilots who swore they won't serve unless, Bibi resigns - are now blowing up Gaza buildings."
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-03 11:00||   2023-12-03 11:00|| Front Page Top

#5  "All these IAF pilots who swore they won't serve unless, Bibi resigns

I notice that there are only tens of thousands protesting now instead of 200,000. So it’s not just pilots.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-12-03 19:35||   2023-12-03 19:35|| Front Page Top

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