Unique from Lengthy Island College – Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Hopes Biden Has the “Braveness” to Return to the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal and Renegotiate “an Even Higher Settlement.” Says Trump and Netanyahu Each Failed as Leaders in Dealing with COVID

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BROOKVILLE, N.Y., Nov. 13, 2020

BROOKVILLE, N.Y., Nov. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Olmert, who preceded Netanyahu in workplace, says about President-elect Biden, “I’ve no fears in anyway about his Presidency so far as Israel is worried.” He additional acknowledged, “I hope that on the problem of Iran, (Biden) may have the braveness to go ahead within the path that was signaled by President Obama, which made the settlement with the Iranians. That he’ll make possibly a greater settlement with Iran that may deter them from even attempting to go additional of their nuclear program.”

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Olmert made these feedback throughout an unique dwell webinar interview yesterday hosted by Lengthy Island College’s International Service Institute carried out by Institute Chair and Journalist Rita Cosby. The previous prime minister says of Biden’s strategy to the Israeli-Palestinian battle, “Joe Biden’s perspective is the best perspective. It’s an perspective primarily based on friendship and dedication to the safety of the State of Israel. I’ve little doubt about it.” “He’s fully totally different from Trump, and to be sincere and clear, I desire Biden’s perspective, as a result of it suits in with what I attempted to do.” Olmert negotiated in 2008 a failed peace cope with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and has had continued dialog with the Palestinian chief, even having a high-profile assembly and press convention with him in New York earlier this 12 months.

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In the course of the webinar, Olmert acknowledged “Donald Trump was a pleasant president to the State of Israel, there isn’t any query about it. We’re grateful for him.” However he says it is extra vital {that a} US chief be good for America. “As a lot as we’re obsessive about our personal wants and our personal difficulties and our personal challenges, we predict that it is rather vital that the president that shall be elected to America shall be good for America to start out with. If he shall be good for America, and that is what shall be decided by the vast majority of individuals voting in America, then he shall be good for the world, after which virtually inevitably he shall be good for Israel.”

In the course of the wide-ranging webinar, Olmert was very crucial of Netanyahu and hopes his days in workplace might quickly come to an finish. “I’m not on his facet, I’m in opposition to him. I feel that he has been lengthy needed to go, and I hope that he shall be going quickly. I feel that he’s not the best individual on the proper time for the best wants of the State of Israel.”

Olmert additionally believes Israel’s healthcare could be a mannequin for America’s well being care system, “President Obama did one thing completely formidable with Obamacare, however it was inadequate.”

He additionally mentioned how he believes each Trump and Netanyahu failed as leaders to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Israel is at the moment experiencing a brand new enhance in circumstances after a second nationwide lockdown was lately lifted. Talking of Netanyahu, “He failed fully in coping, just like Donald Trump by the way in which, in dealing with COVID-19 and this was an entire failure, an entire incapacity to handle this in a correct approach. “

A verbatim transcript of some key elements of the hour-long webinar with actual timecodes might be discovered beneath and the total video is right here on this hyperlink: https://youtu.be/_A5UbHsxpOA

Quotes and use of footage should be credited to: “Lengthy Island College’s International Service Institute.”

OLMERT EXCLUSIVE TRANSCRIPT

08:02 – “I have to say that Donald Trump was a pleasant president to the State of Israel, there isn’t any query about it. We’re grateful for him. However in fact, one should perceive that even us, as a lot as we’re obsessive about our personal wants and our personal difficulties and our personal challenges, we predict that it is rather vital that the President that shall be elected to America shall be good for America to start out with. If he shall be good for America, and that is what shall be decided by the vast majority of individuals voting in America, then he shall be good for the world, after which virtually inevitably he shall be good for Israel.”

10:29 – “I feel (Biden) is a superb buddy of Israel, and I’ve no fears in anyway about his presidency so far as Israel is worried.”

13:52 – “The actual fact is that Donald Trump invested lots of time and lots of power – and his son-in-law and his senior advisor Jared Kushner – invested lots of time and lots of severe effort out of nice respect for the 2 events concerned right here in an effort to attempt to result in some type of settlement. So that’s acknowledged and revered.

Nevertheless, I feel that Joe Biden is a superb buddy of Israel, and his perspective to the state of Israel will not be the identical as Trump’s. Not that he’s much less pleasant to Israel, however he thinks that the one potential answer for the battle within the Center East should be primarily based on two states. Which can be what Trump mentioned, but in addition, no annexation, no unilateral steps, no constructing of settlements by the state of Israel, and he mentioned it and he spelled it out in essentially the most express approach, solely in the previous couple of weeks earlier than the elections. So right here he’s fully totally different from Trump, and to be sincere and clear, I desire Biden’s perspective as a result of it suits in with what I attempted to do.”

17:09 – “I feel that Joe Biden’s perspective is the best perspective. It’s an perspective primarily based on friendship and dedication to the safety of the state of Israel, I’ve little doubt about it.”

17:44 – “I hope that on the problem of Iran, (Biden) may have the braveness to go ahead within the path that was signaled by President Obama, which made the settlement with the Iranians. That he’ll make possibly a greater settlement with Iran that may deter them from even attempting to go additional of their nuclear program.”

27:44 – (Netanyahu) “I’m not on his facet, I’m in opposition to him. I feel that he has been lengthy needed to go, and I hope that he shall be going quickly. I feel that he’s not the best individual on the proper time for the best wants of the State of Israel. And I do not need to go about different points, however I am speaking concerning the substance of insurance policies. I feel that he’s not the best individual on the proper time. He failed fully in coping, just like Donald Trump by the way in which, in dealing with COVID-19 and this was an entire failure, an entire incapacity to handle this in a correct approach. We misplaced a number of lives, and over one million individuals in Israel are unemployed which is the best fee of unemployment we ever had within the historical past of the state of Israel, over 23 p.c unemployment. The nationwide debt grew tremendously, individuals are rioting and demonstrating every day in all of the elements of the state of Israel, and each weekend a whole lot of hundreds of Israelis riot as a result of they really feel that they have been uncared for by the federal government, significantly by Netanyahu, in an important and delicate and important a part of their lives.”

32:13 – “In America, President Obama did one thing completely formidable in altering the Obamacare, however it was inadequate, and the very fact is that there are various who’re attempting to vary it now and to revive it to what it was once. And I’ve to let you know one thing, that the price of medical providers in America due to the inefficiency of the system there, is I feel near 18 p.c of the GNP. The price of the well being care system in Israel is eight p.c of the GNP. Now this distinction, I imply when it comes to America. You are speaking about over $20 trillion {dollars} a 12 months the price of medical providers when so many hundreds of thousands of Individuals aren’t insured, so there’s a drawback.”

34:12 – “The truth that so many nations failed doesn’t imply, doesn’t imply in any respect that there should be a sure secret about the way to cope with it that’s unknown, no. A really meticulous, cautious, exact management of the COVID-19 together with the sporting of the masks and separation and so forth, might be very helpful. That doesn’t require essentially that individuals won’t go to work. They will go to work, they’ll go to work with masks, they’ll go to work with retaining a distance between each other. They will open the shops, they’ll open the espresso homes, definitely exterior on the balconies, till the winter won’t permit it, someday and so forth. There are lots of methods, efficient methods, to cope with the affect of COVID-19 to cut back the damages that it causes. I feel we did not do it, I feel your nation did not do it, many different nations did not do it, however many different nations did it. Germany did it, Taiwan did it, Korea did it, even China is doing it. So let’s not be conceited and let’s take a look at how others are doing with it, and attempt to do the perfect.”

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