Leading Jews Attack Netanyahu’s Wars
On May 27, Ehud Olmert, a former Prime Minister of Israel, published a column in which he wrote: “What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians…Yes, Israel is committing war crimes.”
Olmert, who was Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009, said “Never since its establishment has the state of Israel waged such a war…the criminal gang headed by Benjamin Netanyahu has set a precedent without equal in Israel’s history….”
He added: “Recent operations in the Gaza Strip have nothing to do with legitimate war goals. This is now a private political war.”
Rabbi Linda Holtzman said “we cannot allow one tragedy to justify another” and wrote that she was joining “thousands of American Jews who were calling on the United States government to end the Israeli military’s destruction of Gaza.”
She added:”It is my prayer that we can continue to resist and speak out as we see the people of Gaza being bombed, starved and buried under rubble.”
Another Rabbi, Alyssa Wise, an organizer with Rabbis for Ceasefire, said: “Israel is not a Jewish person. Israel is a state. God forbid we should not be able to cry out when states are committing horrific genocidal violence in the na
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