all the possible options to defend himself now if you yourself i'm no stranger to prosecution or persecution you served time in prison on charges you never admitted to in fact you called yourself a victim often justice if the system was capable of inflicting injustice on your surely it can be misused again why you're investing so much trust in the law enforcement agencies reach you say i have mistreated you to remember why i think as i said before the comparison between my. experience. and that of the 10 you know. entirely. based on the misperception. everything that was sayed against me or done against me was. against things that happened many years before i became prime minister the intensity very different. hues asians there are

hundreds of pages of documents of indictments against you know of an entirely different volume in comparison to mine now the fact is that it's been investigated for more than 3 years very long time they any general was. distant in the past therefore there is no reason to assume that there was any attempt to try and persecute him on the basis of any reasonable. excuse i think that the in my court case not only i think i think i think it's now common knowledge and by lots of people and little experts the court made a mistake in most cases in most of the cases. allegations against me i was

acquitted. there was one thing that i was indicted convicted for which most people think it was a mistake but then mistakes can happen let's wait and see what the cold case would say about that and you know but. the fact that courts can be mistaken doesn't mean that you're someone easy indicted you shouldn't stand quote only because there is a possibility that the cold will be a mistake well prime minister we have to take a short break now but we will be back in just a few moments stay tuned. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do

next that multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to start an open fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw one on t.v. . i'm going to talk about football not the or else you just think i was going to go. by the way what is it that's like here. welcome back to poles apart with former prime minister of israel ehud olmert prime minister it's difficult not to compare these really politics to the american one there are just too many similary. he's including the the style of the 2 leaders

benjamin netanyahu has always been a pretty colorful politician but he seems to have last inhibitions ever since donald trump moved into the white house do you think it's just a personality thing the chemistry between the 2 men or do you think that's navajo consciously tries to mirror trying to get some political or geo political favors you're wondering to assume for the sake of answering you. mr trump he's. uninhibited and oh you want me to. the. attitude of mr and you know. the influence of trump i'm not trying to attach today any negative connotations but he's quite there remarkable politician you will have to give it give it to me i mean he's paralleled in many ways and i think most people around the world they grieve about that he's exceptional in his own ways and i think mr netanyahu surprisingly is coping many of them i don't think they have

any commitment to accept the judgment of what is described by you as the majority of the people in the world i don't know the president is a very unusual person there's no question about it and i think he's very. different person from most other state i can recall and i knew many of them personally over the last 40 years i was president reagan and bush sr and jimmy carter and of course president clinton and george bush jr and. president obama and know one of them was in any way similar to trump so trump is different he's much more outspoken forthcoming and maybe i mean he did in many ways whether it's good obey it. you

know for anyone to personally decide i've had. an interesting president and someone that has to be watched very carefully and i think with a lot of care before we make up our mind that he's not. a good president for many americans i think he is a perfect president and there are many of americans who admire his style and he's everything he's expressions. of invasions in public and some it has do you think president prime minister netanyahu has watched his behavior and has changed his style of politics in any way being under the influence of trump number one the perception of music he's different and it's probably true that he's different i don't those who say that he is. in my mind you certainly know negative and i have enormous respect for anyone who is elected democratically president of

the united states of america and i can only salute him and we him to be successful and he's a good friend of the state of israel and there's. and always respect for him but i don't think that in you know he is similar to him i think that they're entirely different people i don't think you know is influenced by. by trying. i'm not certain that i want to say everything that they think about anything you know now you've been surprisingly a bit about the trump ministrations israeli palestinian peace plan and i think your whole argument comes down to mr trump's than it if you he wants a place in history and reach means he's going to work hard for it do you think though that mr trump and he's team have the competence the skill fab the historical perspective for working out the details of a. deal reach have eluded so many pretty ambitious people before him look.

it is i think well known and widely recognized it. was very close to conclude a deal with the palestinians. who the boss the president of a senior for if he were that close they're close disease what he once how he described the closeness of our understanding and their i subscribe to it this is very close almost almost almost agreed on everything and unfortunately the very last moment he elected perhaps the courage to just may go a step. now i am very encouraged and. quite cure use by the. by the commitment that president trump has to achieve what he calls the deal of a century. because much as i don't know trump

personally i never worked with him but my my perception of. behavior. as public behavior as president is that he is a men who hates to fail he hates to be seen failing and he's prepared to call a play and the deal of a century and he's ready to move to go forward so forcefully political plane he means that he has a very strong commitment and that he takes it very seriously now. whether he or he can or can't go into all the different complexities and peculiarities of this process and you know relates to all the sensitive issues that ought to be part of such an agreement i really don't know i don't think that it's only is going to team of people and some of them are. experienced in the process has been in

the past some of them are quite new interim reins to be seen unfortunately i'm really not familiar with the details of what he has proposed to be able to pass any judgment or to offer any forecast about. the chances of this plan to be successful the few details that we that have been leaked about this deal so far suggest that the trump team favors economic incentives for the palestinians in exchange for political concessions just how much do you think sean needs to all for it to the palestinians for them to be able to buy into his promises do you think it can all make ajanta is really the most important one for the palestinians again as i said i don't know enough and i'm not sure that this would be wise on my behalf to offer judgment just

a partial exposure of some of the details but what they can say is these i know exactly what needs to be done in order to achieve peace between us and the palestinians and this is to really offer what i have proposed to the palestinians i think the only plan which can be accepted and one day will be the peace there will be signed between israel and the palestinians is what i proposed and i am quite certain that had it been proposed today to abu mazin. you know we some fine tuning . have led to an agreement. so what needs to be the plan i know this is the only plane and if you will inquire. and wheezes people they will no hesitate privately at least to admit that this is true well from what i know the palestinians haven't rejected continuing with the 2008 framework which you refer to as the olmert deal but these really position has moved quite

a bit prime minister netanyahu not only opposes it he does everything possible i think to bury the whole 2 state framework do the facts on the ground that he's create that the expansion of the settlements the forced dislocation of the palestinians does it all leave any space for of viable palestinian state. yes there will never never be peace unless there will be a palestinian state there will never be. risin of hope for the state of israel without a palestinian state so i absolutely absolutely i'm determined that this is the only person to go through and i think there. will have to come to terms with itself sooner than later in order to understand that this is the only way to go what you said before it's true that the palestinians never said no to my plan they never said no to my plan i repeat it dr mahmoud abbas abu mazen never said yes

but at the same time he never said no and he keeps saying all the time i never said no which means that implicitly at least he doesn't reject the option that he will one say yes to something that he said he never said no to no the economic incentives may be an important ingredient but without a political framework of nature that i've proposed in 2008 there will be no agreement and no. only that there will not be an agreement but all those that hope they the moderate arab countries the emirates the saudis the egyptians they don't bring in said others will somehow call prate we something that reflects the basic they wreck of a 2 state solution is mistaken none of the countries will come forward unless

there will be a proposed solution on the basis of 2 states there is my absolute conviction and also things that i hear from talking to some of us over the last couple of months well prime minister we have to leave it there thank you very much for being with us today and sharing your perspective i really appreciate that thank you very much i might have yours to keep this conversation going in our social media pages and hope to syria again same place same time here on worlds apart.

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