Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the government of Benjamin Netanyahu was taking ‘Israel’ into unprecedented isolation with its policy on settlements

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the government of Benjamin Netanyahu was taking ‘Israel’ into unprecedented isolation with its policy on settlements.

He singled out Zionist entity’s recent announcement that it would build new settlement homes in the E1 corridor near Al-Quds. The plan has sparked international condemnations.

Olmert said such plans had been around for years. But making the announcement days after the United States sided with the occupying entity against the Palestinians’ successful bid for de facto statehood recognition by the U.N. General Assembly was a slap in the face to the entity’s main ally.

“Bibi Netanyahu,” he said, using the prime minister’s nickname, “is isolating Israel from the entire world in an unprecedented way, and we will pay a high price in every facet of our lives, and the Israeli public should know it.”

Olmert, speaking on Israeli “Meet the Press”, said he did not embark on a widely expected bid to run in the upcoming January election due to a lack of unity in the centre-left bloc, as well as lingering legal troubles.