Ehud Olmert’s Missed Chance at Hamas

As Israel looks for to “behead” Hamas by eliminating or recording its leaders, a previous Israeli prime minister informed me he needed to miss a chance to do so in 2007.

On June 25 of that year, Ehud Olmert remembered in a phone interview, he took a call from his leading security authorities who stated Israel had actually found a home in Gaza where Mohammed Deif, Hamas’s military leader, and 10 other leading Hamas leaders were conference. “An Israeli F-16 fighter jet was in the air with 1,000 kilos of dynamites and rockets,” Mr. Olmert stated. “All I needed to do was okay the hit.”