Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday advocated for the fight against the judicial reform to move to the next stage.
In an interview he gave to DemocraTV, Olmert claimed that the protest in its current form will lead nowhere. "It's good to see 100,000 people, but that's not what will lead the real fight. The real fight will break through these fences, and enter into a real war."
"We are facing a real war, these events, the demonstrations that I am going to on Saturday nights and today's demonstration, are the preliminary stage before the beginning of the real protest that will eventually break out with strong force that will trample the fences that are placed on it today, and this should be understood.”
Olmert claimed that those who speak at the protests do not offer anything new and therefore have no influence. "This change will not take place with the help of speeches, of the kind that are given here, which are all worthy speeches, given by good people, people who care and people who are in pain. But you have to understand, there is not a person here who does not understand the meaning of the changes that the government is trying to bring about, there is really no need to explain anything, because everyone already understands everything."
"What is needed is to move to the next stage, the stage of war, and war is not waged with speeches. War is waged in a face-to-face battle, head-to-head and hand-to-hand, and that is what will happen here," he warned.