After Ehud Olmert accused the Benjamin Netanyahu of NIS 11 billion on “hallucinatory escapades that will never be realized”, the current premier responded as saying that the former PM’s statement was “irresponsible.”

After Ehud Olmert accused the Benjamin Netanyahu of NIS 11 billion on “hallucinatory escapades that will never be realized”, the current premier responded as saying that the former PM’s statement was “irresponsible.”

In an interview with Channel 2 on Friday, Olmert suggested that the Netanyahu administration had spent billions on preparations for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
 "I knew that 2012 was a decisive year and I think there's a surplus in the defense budget which must be cut," the former prime minister said.

Netanyahu said in response: "It's a wild and irresponsible statement. Not one shekel was wasted."
"We have developed offensive and defensive capabilities in near and distant arenas and I think this investment is very important for the State of Israel, in the same way that the billions spent on the fence stopped the infiltrators. We have enhanced the capabilities of the (Israeli soldiers), the Shin Bet and the Mossad for good reason," he added.

For his part, Olmert did not waste time in firing back. At a conference at the Kinneret College hours after Netanyahu's radio interview, he addressed the "2007 bombing of the Syrian nuclear reactor - an event which took place only according to foreign reports."

 "When I hear of ministers lashing out at things I said, the money and investments, I think about this event which no one had heard of before President Bush mentioned a telephone call he had with me," the former PM who was in office when the Zionist entity was defeated by Hezbollah forces in 2006, said.

"Did anybody hear about it? Did anybody blow the horn and announce they were going to do it? The people of Israel woke up one morning to learn that something that had happened prevented a change in its way of life.

"I could have claimed credit for the event in Syria, but there was complete silence. The only one who spoke about it was then opposition chairman, Benjamin Netanyahu, who took it straight to the TV."